“I didn’t think I was really producing anything because I was writing and singing over drum ‘n’ bass beats”: PinkPantheress says she never thought she'd be recognised as a producer and that “even now, people don’t want to take my music seriously”

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PinkPantheress has accepted her previously announced 2024 Producer of the Year Billboard Women in Music Award, confessing at this week’s prize-giving ceremony that, when she first started making music, she “didn’t think I was really producing anything”.

“To show my appreciation for this award, I think it’s important to mention my roots as a producer,” she said in her speech. “I was at university in my dorm room when I decided there was no way graduating university was going to make me happy in the long run, but I was simultaneously too shy to admit that I wanted to be a musician.”