Wake it up. P!nk was not plucked from nowhere and forced into R&B by L.A. Reid. She was already performing in the Philadelphia club scene as a teenager, including as a backing vocalist for the hip-hop group Schoolz of Thought. Eventually, she went on to join the R&B group Basic Instinct, then formed the R&B trio Choice, whose demo led to their signing with LaFace. After her R&B debut became a mainstream success, she moved away from the genre and reinvented herself as a rock-pop star.