Pink Wins iHeartRadio Music Awards Icon Award

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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 offered with the iHeartRadio icon award by fellow singer Kelly Clarkson on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Clarkson praised Pink’s authenticity and her “means to attach with individuals” and lamented that she — and many of the basic public — won’t ever be as cool because the “Elevate Your Glass” singer.

Earlier than Pink took the stage, a video compilation of a few of her strongest performances, blended with dwelling footage of her in her youth, performed. “I nonetheless have lots of battle left in me,” Pink stated in an interview excerpted within the clip. “I am gonna blaze that path, and inspire and encourage.” Her acceptance speech was additionally preceded by a reside tribute efficiency of Pink’s tune “Simply Like a Tablet” by ’80s icon Pat Benatar. Then Clarkson reentered, backed by a number of ladies on strings, to sing 2012’s “Simply Give Me a Motive.” Finally, Pink joined Clarkson for a robust duet of her hit observe.

“Being on stage doing what I like, with individuals I like, and my infants within the viewers, this appears like a Christmas miracle,” Pink stated, including, “Each room I stroll into, my coronary heart walks into first. Each lyric that I write is my coronary heart crying.” She instructed her followers, “You will have watched me do that, simply sifting by means of 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 weak 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 crimson carpet earlier along with her youngsters, Willow, 11, and Jameson, 6, concluded her speech by saying, “I am grateful to be alive, I am grateful I get to do that with my one treasured life.”

It isn’t the primary time Pink has been dubbed a music icon. In actual fact, she received a equally titled honor on the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. Throughout her acceptance speech on the time, Pink stated merely, “I like what I do and I like the those that I get to do it with,” Billboard beforehand reported.

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Picture Supply: Kevin Winter/Getty Photos for iHeartRadio

Picture Supply: Kevin Winter/Getty Photos for iHeartRadio