A biography for Leigh-Anne Pinnockhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm just a bit of a liability when it comes to driving.”
“Just because we're a girl band doesn't mean that we're not credible artists.”
“Me, Jesy and Jade were all told at our first audition that they could see us in a girl group. All of us were a little bit disappointed because they thought we weren't good enough on our own.”
“I never said that I was going to do a documentary talking about my experiences of colourism. I think people took it the wrong way with the working title - 'Leigh-Anne: Race and Colourism.' That's not what I was doing, I'm here to amplify the voices of darker-skinned women and hear their experiences.”
“Me and my sisters never saw race as a limitation on what we wanted to achieve... One thing we were doing were sleeping on racism.”
“To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you benefit from.”
“It's not easy being a female in the U.K. pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity.”
“What we're trying to push, as a group, is just equal rights.”
“We're very approachable. We are four normal, silly, weird girls. We want people to feel like they can come up to us and have a chat. We're like your friends.”
“We were doing a gig in Spain and yet again had four hotel rooms that never get used. We always share a bed. So we're all in bed together and we've all got wind. And we thought it would be funny to put it on Instagram. Farting on cue.”
“I got a C for science!”
“We met Prince Harry!”
“I'm a bit of a prude in general, and I tend to cover myself up.”
“My skin care is really important.”
“Racism, colourism, it is massive and I wanted to make sure I addressed colourism as well, so I'm happy I did that.”
“For years within the group I felt very overlooked and invisible, and I carried these feelings for such a long time. I just felt like no matter what I did, it was never on par with the other girls in the group.”
“We've done some incredible things!”
“You have to create music that people will buy into and show who you are as an artist.”
“We're just four girls with attitude, aren't we? It just happened naturally. And with songs like 'Joan of Arc,' they needed that rap-y take on it. 'Wasabi' has that clap-back-to-the-haters vibe.”
“Even when we first got put together we always said we wanted to do music to inspire people, that was our main aim. We started out like that.”