Pop Singer Pink To Become Youngest Artist To Receive Icon Award At Billboard Music Awards

Singer Pink to get Billboard Award: Singer and songwriter Alecia Beth Moore, popularly known as Pink, will receive the Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), scheduled to be held in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 23.

The pop singer is the tenth artist to receive the Icon Award. The 41-year-old is also the youngest recipient to receive the award. Pink joins the standard league of the previous recipients that include Neil Diamond, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Garth Brooks, the Billboard reported.

The special category is dedicated to recognising artists who have achieved success on the Billboard charts.

"As a little girl, I always dreamed about being a singer and sharing my love of music with the world," the Raise Your Glass singer said in a statement. She went on to brag about receiving the Billboard Music Awards Icon Award and says that it is hard to "fathom". Pink added she feels honoured to be standing alongside the previous music idols who won the award.

Singer Pink to get Billboard Award, says it's a true "pinch me" moment and she feels "humbled and blessed"

Last year, Pink donated $500,000 to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles: L.A. Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund to support the healthcare workers who the frontlines warriors in this crisis. She also pledged a donation of $500,000 to the Temple University Hospital Emergency Fund in Philadelphia, where she said her mother worked for 18 years.

Pink's last three studio albums -- The Truth About Love (2012), Beautiful Trauma (2017) and Hurts 2B Human (2019) -- have entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1. Earlier this year, she took to Instagram and shared a heartfelt note for her husband Carey Hart on their 15th wedding anniversary. “See, sometimes being stubborn pays off. What a wild ride it’s been, once we learned how to stay in our race line. Here’s to at least the next 15 months," the I'm Not Dead singer joked. She got married to motorcycle racer Carey Hart in 2006 and the couple has two children.

She and her three-year-old son were recovered from COVID-19 last year.