Alecia Moore was born on September 8,
1979, in Abington, Pennsylvania, to Judith, a nurse, and Jim Moore, a
Vietnam veteran. Her father is Catholic and her mother is Jewish, and
she has ancestors who emigrated from Ireland, Germany, and Lithuania.
Pink grew up in Doylestown, where she attended Kutz Elementary School,
Lenape Middle School, and Central Bucks High School West. Her father
played guitar and sang songs, thus inspiring Pink from an early age to
be a pop star. She was also a gymnast for eight years, saying in an
interview that it was her first dream to be an Olympic gymnast. In high
school, Pink joined her first band, Middleground, but it disbanded upon
losing a battle of the bands competition. Pink developed her voice
early in life. Although a healthy baby at birth, she quickly developed
asthma that plagued her through her early years. As a teenager, she
wrote lyrics as an outlet for her feelings, and her mother commented,
"Her initial writings were always very introspective. Some of it was
very black, and very deep, almost worrisome."
