There are many “sons of…” in show business who have been known almost since they were in their mothers’ wombs. Of course, time passes and sometimes it returns to these offspring that are hardly recognizable, either because of their appearance or because of the path they have followed. This is the case of will smith’s wayward daughter Willow.
Born on October 31, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, the young woman found her place on the scene, but had to go through a path that cost her mental health at a young age, but luckily she was able to direct her life through her great passion.
Daughter of actor parents (who was The Prince of rap and Jada Pinkett-Smith), her first movie appearance was at age 7 in I’m legend, along with his dad. She also acted in would arrive Kit Kittredge: journalist dreams and even had a leading role in a Nickelodeon series, True Jackson, but she already felt that her true vocation was calling her elsewhere. It was so that, at the age of ten and with the support of Will and Jada, launched as a singer.
His first single, Whip My Hair, gave him the reality check he needed to know to understand what it takes to survive in the industry. “At that moment, I understood that it really was very hard, that it was not only about singing, but that there was also a whole production job behind it,” he told Cosmopolitan, adding: “That’s where I had to stop for a moment, give step back and ask myself if it was really what I wanted to do. I had to seriously rethink what I wanted.”
The tours, the production of the album, the presentations… All of this went deep into the psyche of Willow and ended up entering a depressive well that led her to mutilate herself. It was there that she decided to get out of the spotlight as much as she could, but she continued to use music as a means of expression and as a vehicle to get out of such an ugly scenario. But it was not easy at all.
“Growing up and trying to figure out yourself, while people feel like they have some kind of right to know what’s going on in your life, is unbearably terrible. The only way to get over it is to face it. You can’t change your face, or change your parents. For this reason, I feel that most children like me end up in a spiral of depression, while the world witnesses it through their cell phones, mocking and making jokes and memes, ”she wrote by way of catharsis. in their social networks.
Now, at 22, she considers herself bisexual and polyamorous, in addition to returning to the musical arena. She put out six albums-Ardipithecus, The 1st, Willow, The Anxiety, Lately I fell Everything y CopingMechanism (released in 2022) – and places his art in the pop-punk genre.
And to see how he is today, there is no better occasion than this Friday, March 17, when he performs on the first day of Lollapalooza Argentina, at the San Isidro Hippodrome.