Will Smith has shared footage from his emotional expertise from watching his daughter WILLOW’s set at Coachella.
Having spent current years changing into widespread within the rock sphere off the again of her 2021 Travis Barker-assisted pop-punk album ‘these days i really feel EVERYTHING’ and her 2022 boundary-pushing fifth album ‘COPINGMECHANISM‘, the 22-year-old WILLOW took to the desert to make her Coachella debut the place her father, the actor and rapper Will Smith was within the viewers.
Posting to his Instagram feed, he confirmed off his delight in her efficiency with two posts.
He captioned one “WILLOWCHELLA!” and, in one other publish, he confessed he “can’t cease crying!”
All of WILLOW’s household have launched into musical careers: the Oscar-winning actor Smith was a Grammy award-winning rapper previous to his breakthrough function in The Recent Prince of Bel-Air, mom Jada Pinkett Smith was as soon as in nu-metal band Depraved Knowledge, and her brother Jaden Smith has adopted go well with has launched acclaimed albums comparable to 2017’s ‘Syre’ and 2020’s ‘CTV3: Cool Tape Vol.3’.
Coachella additionally noticed Jaden accompanied WILLOW on stage to carry out the siblings’ collaboration, ‘Summertime In Paris’.
Received to witness a extremely particular second at Coachella —
Willow Smith, Jaden Smith, and a proud father. 🫶🏽 pic.twitter.com/O6ojUGKYVh
— Michael Watson II (@ForeverShowtime) April 18, 2023
On stage, he spoke concerning the adoration he has for his sister and her profession. “It brings tears to my eyes as your brother to see you do that,” he mentioned. “I like you a lot. I’m so impressed by you, I’m so impressed and comfortable for what you’re doing on the earth and the quantity of individuals’s lives you’re altering with the music that you simply’re making.”
Will Smith beforehand spoke out on how his “coronary heart shattered” when Jaden requested to be emancipated when he was a 15-year-old.
In different information, AI know-how has recreated what Chris Rock noticed when Will Smith slapped him eventually 12 months’s Oscar ceremony. Will Smith has commented on the occasion, saying he’s “tried unsuccessfully” to reconcile with the comic.
In the meantime, WILLOW lately shared a photograph of her and St. Vincent working collectively within the studio. Final 12 months, she appeared onstage with The Smashing Pumpkins to carry out ‘Cherub Rock’ – following collaborations with Yungblud, Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly.
Willow has additionally beforehand teased a collaboration with KennyHoopla. “We’ve positively been throwing round concepts and getting within the studio to have enjoyable, so I positively really feel like one thing’s gonna come quickly,” she instructed NME.
Throughout a current In Dialog interview with NME, Willow spoke about what she appears to be like for in a collaborator. “Somebody [who] is open to being experimental, and to doing issues that different individuals is probably not into doing,” she mentioned. “And I simply search for a pal. Like, if I actually love you and also you encourage me as an individual, I’m down. I like working with individuals who I like – that’s actually the one standards.”