The timing of Variety Music’s Innovator of the Year award (presented by Sandisk) could not have been more fitting for 24-year-old Victoria Beverly Walker — aka the British alt-pop singer-songwriter-producer PinkPantheress, perhaps best-known for her 2023 smash “Boy’s a Liar.” She is now, somewhat officially, Dr. Pantheress.
She was awarded an honorary doctorate from England’s University of Kent just two days before this interview took place in late July, even though she’d left college after a year to pursue music.
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“They just offered me a doctorate, so obviously I’m going to have to say yes!” she says with a self-deprecating laugh.
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