Pink: Staying True Page #4

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She was off her nut in a

night club and she was asked

to go and sing...

she just about got it together

to sing, but the DJ...

he said, "Can you come back,

but be straight when you come

back, stay off the drugs?"

And then she did that...

and that was where she kind

of realized that she was

gonna be successful.

Give credit to her for pulling

herself up by the bootstraps...

and getting herself together

sufficiently and not dying...

instead being re-born as a

terribly successful,

highly motivated woman...

who would take most of the

control of the future

direction of her career.

What do you think you'd be doing

if you weren't making music?

Hard to say, but, in reality,

I don't know that I'd be here.

REPORTER (O.S.):

Does music mean that much

to you, then?

Absolutely,

it's been my escape.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

By the time she was barely

in her teens...

Pink was heavily into the

Philadelphia club scene.

At the age of 14, she had her

first job, singing back-up

in a friend's rap group.

Pink was spotted by a record

company executive from MCA...

who asked her to audition

for a new R & B group called

Basic Instinct.

Pink got the job on the spot.

Pink started performing when she

was about 14, in local clubs...

where she lived in Philadelphia.

She started off as a member

of an R & B girl group...

and it looks as though that's

the direction she was

heading in.

They got sort of flown

to Atlanta to put a record

together...

but it never actually got

released.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

The group went nowhere...

nonetheless, an R & B trio

named Choice snapped Pink up as

one of three female leads.

They made a demo and were

immediately signed to LaFace...

by the producer and music

industry impresario LA Reed.

She got into LaFace's office

with Choice, who were

an R & B act.

LA Reed was definitely really

important to her career...

and he got her signed in the

first place, and made her

go solo...

it was either kind of she went

solo or it was over,

sort of thing...

so she took the choice

to go solo.

And when she was under the

tutelage of LA Reed...

that was the only example

of her as the pop puppet,

the manipulated girl.

And that was when it all started

with her first album.

I'm taking over the world.

That's it, I'm taking over the

world, painting the world Pink.

She felt empowered and decided

to leave and do her own thing...

and she's been doing it very

well ever since.

This with no looking back.

I was in a group, I was a lead

singer of a group...

two groups actually,

and that kind of didn't work.

So-- huh?

It did work, right?

Everything happens for a reason.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

By the age of 16,

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