PinkPantheress Makes BRIT History as First Female Producer — SkimNews
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- PinkPantheress won Producer of the Year at the 2026 BRIT Awards at age 24, becoming the first woman and youngest recipient since the honor was established in 1977.
- Kelela honored PinkPantheress for the TIME100 Next 2026 list, calling her "an artist who already knows exactly who she is" and praising her as a Black femme opening doors in electronic music.
- PinkPantheress exclusively remixed Tinashe's "Twentyfive Eight" from the new album Popstar alongside collaborator Count Baldor, with the louder, bass-driven version available only on iTunes.
- PinkPantheress is executive producing the upcoming November debut EP from UK girl group Say Now — formerly Needanamebro — and co-wrote and co-produced their lead single "Met My Match."
- PinkPantheress provided British-accented backing vocals on "Crush," the opening track of Jae Stephens' debut album Audacity, after Stephens' own English accent was deemed "a cancellable offense."
- Imogen Heap called into Derrick Gee's YouTube series Solid Air to ask PinkPantheress for production recommendations, with Heap later covering PinkPantheress's deep cut "True Romance" using her signature midi gloves.
Why it matters: PinkPantheress is collapsing the producer-artist divide — at 24, she became the youngest and first woman to win the BRIT Producer of the Year honor since 1977, and she's now executive producing Say Now's November EP and remixing Tinashe. Her peer-validated ascent — Kelela, Imogen Heap citing her influence — gives Black femmes in electronic pop a concrete industry-scale blueprint.
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