PinkPantheress makes history as Brit Awards’ best producer

British Pop star Victoria Beverley Walker, popularly known as PinkPantheress, has been named producer of the year by the Brit Awards ahead of this weekend’s ceremony.

The 24-year-old record producer, has become the first woman to be given the prize since its inception in 1977.

While speaking about the achievement, PinkPantheress explained that she doesn’t feel legendary enough to be given such an award. She described her emotions as bittersweet.

“I guess it’s bittersweet that I’m the first one, the first woman, to get it. As young as I am, it feels almost a bit crazy. Like, I’m not really legendary enough to be receiving it – but you know, I will definitely take it,” she told BBC.

PinkPantheress spoke about her experience with producing, revealing that she made her first project when she was 17-years-old. She noted that she is a self-taught producer.

“When I was 17, I was at a girl’s school and I had a friend who was a singer, and she wanted someone to produce for her. And I was like, ‘I’ll do it’. Quite literally, I did not have a microphone, but I had a karaoke game on the Nintendo Wii and they gave you a mic with the game. And I just was like, ‘It has a USB connection, maybe it will work plugged it in’. It was a lot of trial and error,” she explained