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Pink was simply honored as a music icon on the iHeartRadio Music Awards and gave a rousing speech to show why she’s so deserving of the award. On March 27, Pink was introduced with the iHeartRadio icon award by fellow singer Kelly Clarkson on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Clarkson praised Pink’s authenticity and her “potential to attach with folks” and lamented that she — and a lot of the normal public — won’t ever be as cool because the “Raise Your Glass” singer.
Before Pink took the stage, a video compilation of a few of her strongest performances, blended with house footage of her in her youth, performed. “I nonetheless have plenty of battle left in me,” Pink mentioned in an interview excerpted within the clip. “I’m gonna blaze that path, and inspire and encourage.” Her acceptance speech was additionally preceded by a dwell tribute efficiency of Pink’s music “Just Like a Pill” by ’80s icon Pat Benatar. Then Clarkson reentered, backed by a number of ladies on strings, to sing 2012’s “Just Give Me a Reason.” Eventually, Pink joined Clarkson for a strong duet of her hit observe.
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“Being on stage doing what I like, with folks I like, and my infants within the viewers, this looks like a Christmas miracle,” Pink mentioned, including, “Every room I stroll into, my coronary heart walks into first. Every lyric that I write is my coronary heart crying.” She instructed her followers, “You have watched me do that, simply sifting via life’s messiness, for 25 years.”
Pink additionally spoke concerning the significance of vulnerability, telling the gathered LA crowd, “I believe as human beings we’re susceptible from the time we’re born to the time we die . . . I’ve determined to make vulnerability my life’s work.” The artist, who walked the purple carpet earlier along with her youngsters, Willow, 11, and Jameson, 6, concluded her speech by saying, “I’m grateful to be alive, I’m grateful I get to do that with my one treasured life.”
It’s not the primary time Pink has been dubbed a music icon. In truth, she gained a equally titled honor on the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. During her acceptance speech on the time, Pink mentioned merely, “I like what I do and I like the folks that I get to do it with,” Billboard beforehand reported.
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Image Source: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio
Image Source: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio
