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Willow Smith\u2019s latest musical era is here to make you whip your hair back and forth (sorry, we couldn\u2019t resist). When the 20-year-old daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith first came onto the music scene, she made her debut with the iconic song, \u201cWhip My Hair.\u201d Now, more than a decade later, Willow has launched a new sound in her new track titled, \u201cTransparent Soul\u201d and we\u2019re already obsessed with it. In \u201cTransparent Soul,\u201d Willow fully lets her pop-punk/alt-rock side let loose \u2014 a drastic (but so delightful) change from her typical ethereal R&B sound. Willow made sure her entrance to the genre was solid, and she tapped Blink-182\u2019s Travis Barker to rock out on drums. TBH it\u2019s everything we never knew we needed from the singer. Willow is back, and she\u2019s about to shake up the music world.
\u201cI am so grateful for this tune because it was created in such an introspective time (during the first couple months of quarantine),\u201d she says in a release, per Complex. \u201cIt was the song that proved to me that I needed to let go of the insecurities I had about making a project of this genre.\u201d Honestly, by the confident way Willow belts the lyrics and dances along, we never would have guessed she was once insecure about her venture into pop-punk music.
\u201cI don\u2019t fuckin\u2019 know if it\u2019s a lie or it\u2019s a fact/ All your little fake friends will sell your secrets for some cash/Smile in my face then put your cig out on my back,\u201d Willow sings while she plays guitar. Her collab with Barker is legendary in itself, but watching Willow\u2019s edge as she flips off the camera only makes us feel happy to see how much she\u2019s grown into a mature artist in her own right.
Willow\u2019s mom Jada had a metal-band stint of her own, as the lead singer in Wicked Wisdom, so it makes total sense that Willow might have wanted to try her hand at the sound herself. Whatever genre or sound is next for Willow, one thing is clear: she\u2019s going to absolutely rock it, every time.
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"page_snippet": "Though Smith once regretted recording the 2010 song, she now embraces its self-love message.Willow Smith, the \"Whip My Hair\" singer, reflects on her hit 2010 song. She told L'Officiel magazine she embraces the song today and its message of self-love. Smith also opened up about what a dream come true it is for her, as a Black woman, to perform rock music. The singer recalled touring with her mom's nu-metal band, Wicked Wisdom, for years as a child. Though Pinkett Smith, 49, sometimes faced intense racism as a Black woman fronting a hard rock band, she modeled for her daughter a powerful way to handle detractors. Though Pinkett Smith, 49, sometimes faced intense racism as a Black woman fronting a hard rock band, she modeled for her daughter a powerful way to handle detractors. ... \u201cObviously, she was scared,\" Smith said of observing Pinkett Smith on the road. \"But she really showed me what 'womaning up' really was, by taking a stance and not being afraid of other people\u2019s judgements and perceptions.\" Though her own music is nowhere as pummeling as Wicked Wisdom \u2014 who recently reunited on an episode of Pinkett Smith's Facebook Watch talk show \"Red Table Talk\" \u2014 Smith said she's proud to be following in her mom's footsteps. Willow Smith came into her own with her 2010 debut single \"Whip My Hair.\" The daughter of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith was just 9 years old when she recorded the infectious R&B song, which encourages girls to whip their hair as they shake haters off.",
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Willow Smith came into her own with her 2010 debut single \"Whip My Hair.\" The daughter of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith was just 9 years old when she recorded the infectious R&B song, which encourages girls to whip their hair as they shake haters off.
Though \"Whip My Hair\" later grew to be a source of embarrassment for her, the singer, 20, told L'Officiel magazine she now embraces the song's important self-love message. \"For so long, I wanted to condemn that time of my life and forget it, just kind of push it under the rug,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI really regretted it.\"
Willow Smith performed "Whip My Hair" at Nickelodeon's 24th Annual Kids' Choice Awards on April 2, 2011, in Los Angeles.Matt Sayles / AP
Since then, she's realized \"Whip My Hair\" fits right in \u2014 at least thematically \u2014 with the the pop-punk songs that appear on her upcoming album, \"Lately I Feel Everything,\" available July 16.
\u201cI realized that the content in my songs has always been centered around self-love and the universe and our humanity\u2019s divine path, about expressing oneself and being unapologetic,\u201d she explained. \u201cI listened to \u2018Whip My Hair\u2019 not too long ago, after many years, and realized that it\u2019s the same message. I\u2019m not saying anything that\u2019s against my values, and on top of that, I\u2019m saying things that are in harmony with my values.\"
Nearly 11 years after her debut single "Whip My Hair" was released, Smith is releasing her fifth studio album, "Lately I Feel Everything," in July.Myles Loftin for L'Officiel
Smith continued, \"I kind of just had a huge aha and was like, \u2018Yo, don\u2019t condemn this side of your life because it gave you a foundation and a platform and a fan base of so many loving individuals who have been by my side through this whole crazy, topsy-turvy journey that I\u2019ve had.\"
\"Now, I would never take it back,\" she added.
Willow Smith is the cover star of L'Officiel's July 2021 issue.Myles Loftin for L'Officiel
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Smith also opened up about what a dream come true it is for her, as a Black woman, to perform rock music.
The singer recalled touring with her mom's nu-metal band, Wicked Wisdom, for years as a child. Though Pinkett Smith, 49, sometimes faced intense racism as a Black woman fronting a hard rock band, she modeled for her daughter a powerful way to handle detractors.
\u201cObviously, she was scared,\" Smith said of observing Pinkett Smith on the road. \"But she really showed me what 'womaning up' really was, by taking a stance and not being afraid of other people\u2019s judgements and perceptions.\"
Though her own music is nowhere as pummeling as Wicked Wisdom \u2014 who recently reunited on an episode of Pinkett Smith's Facebook Watch talk show \"Red Table Talk\" \u2014 Smith said she's proud to be following in her mom's footsteps.
\u201cI just wanted to fulfill that desire that I had ever since I was 10 or 12 of singing rock music, of being a Black woman singing rock music,\u201d she said.
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Who Is Willow Smith?
Willow Smith grew up in the public eye as the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. After acting in a few projects, in 2010 Smith released a song, "Whip My Hair," that became a hit single. However, the demands of fame eventually stressed the young Smith to the point that she took a step away from performing. Smith later started making music as WILLOW. She overcame personal doubts and embraced her lifelong love of rock to release the album Lately I Feel Everything (2021). In doing so, she staked her own claim to a genre of music with strong ties to the Black community. In addition to music, Smith co-hosts the popular talk show Red Table Talk with her mother and grandmother.
Early Life and Family
Willow Camille Reign Smith was born on October 31, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. Smith is the daughter of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. She has an older brother, Jaden Smith, and an older half-brother, Trey Smith. Her family's status meant Smith was raised in the spotlight.
Early Acting and Music
In 2007, Smith had a role alongside her father in the movie I Am Legend. She next appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) and joined her mother to voice a character in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). She was also seen on the television show True Jackson, VP. As a teen, Smith performed vocally in Neo Yokio and Adventure Time.
Smith's first pop single, "Whip My Hair," came out when she was 9 years old. The song was a hit, ultimately going platinum and reaching No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, Smith signed a recording contract with Jay-Z's Roc Nation.
Smith had some follow-up success with songs like 2011's "21st Century Girl," but nothing was as popular as "Whip My Hair." She also came to dislike the pressure-filled lifestyle of performing. In 2012, Smith shaved her head during her "Whip My Hair" tour, an act of protest against continuing. She also decided she didn't want to take on the title role in a filmed version of the musical Annie that her father was producing. Smith has admitted she later started cutting herself in an attempt to deal with her emotional pain.
Smith told Pinkett Smith in 2018, "I definitely had to forgive you and Daddy for that whole 'Whip My Hair' thing. It was mostly Daddy because he was so harsh at certain times." Reflecting on her childhood career, in 2019 she told People magazine, "I was super young, and I had a dream, but all I really wanted to do was sing and I didn't equate that with all the business and the stress that ended up coming with it."
Though she'd rebelled against the demands on her, Smith didn't stop making music. Her debut album, Ardipithecus, was released in 2015. Her next two albums, The 1st and Willow, came out in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
'Red Table Talk'
Smith, her mother and her maternal grandmother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, had a tradition of sharing personal stories and insights among themselves. Pinkett Smith recorded and released one of these no-barriers, intergenerational conversations in 2013. Five years later, the women launched their own talk show, Red Table Talk, on Facebook Watch.
Red Table Talk has an informal set-up that harkens back to the family's earlier discussions. On the show, the three generations of women have tackled topics such as mental health, politics and sexuality. In 2021, Smith shared that she was polyamorous. Salma Hayek, Kevin Hart, Olivia Jade Giannulli and Jordyn Woods are among some of the high-profile guests who have stopped by the program.
In 2021, Red Table Talk won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Informative Talk Show.
Albums: 'The Anxiety' and 'Lately I Feel Everything'
The Anxiety, an indie rock album from Smith and partner Tyler Cole, came out in 2020. Along with the album, Smith and Cole took part in a performance art piece. Inside a glass box at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, they spent 24 hours embodying eight different emotional states linked to anxiety.
As a teenager, Smith had developed a love of rock while listening to groups like My Chemical Romance and Blink-182. Those influences were evident in her next album, Lately I Feel Everything, which came out in July 2021. The album, produced with Cole, is seen as pop-punk, though Smith has clarified, "I knew I didn't want to do a completely pop-punk record, I knew that it needed to have a mixture of some moody alternative, more melodic vibes because that's just who I am."
Smith has stated that Lately I Feel Everything is the kind of record she'd wanted to make "since I was literally 12," but she'd been hesitant about diving into this genre of music. For one thing, her training had been in the world of pop and R&B. In addition, Smith had watched her mother perform with her n\u00fc-metal band, Wicked Wisdom, in the early 2000s. She'd delighted in her mother's shows \u2014 but she also remembers the death threats Pinkett Smith received while on tour.
Lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for Smith to experiment and overcome her doubts about making rock music. She said in 2021, "Even though Black women still aren't super accepted in the rock world, times have changed. It was really my own personal insecurities that had stopped me doing this in the past. Now I hope I can be an instrument in helping more young women of color know they can do this."
The album's first single, "Transparent Soul," featured Blink-182's Travis Barker. It made it onto Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Other collaborators on the album include punk star Avril Lavigne, who accepted an invitation to join Smith on the song "Grow."
Fashion
As a teenager, Smith became known for wearing gender-neutral fashion. Her style also incorporates more daring choices in attire, hairstyles and makeup. However, Smith said in a 2021 interview, "I'm the kind of person who never really gets dressed up unless it\u2019s a part of my work."
Smith has been the face of campaigns for brands like Chanel, Cartier and Mugler.
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Name: Willow Camille Reign Smith
Birth Year: 2000
Birth date: October 31, 2000
Birth State: California
Birth City: Los Angeles
Birth Country: United States
Best Known For: Singer and musician Willow Smith is a child of Hollywood royalty who has made a name for herself in pop, R&B; and rock, as well as joining her mother and grandmother on the talk show 'Red Table Talk.'
Astrological Sign: Scorpio
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Smith began his musical career alongside Canadian singer Justin Bieber, when he was featured on the 2010 single \"Never Say Never\" from The Karate Kid.[6] The song reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified 5\u00d7 Platinum in the US. He later released multiple mixtapes including CTV2 (2014). Following a three-year work effort, he released his debut studio album, Syre (2017). Smith has since released the studio albums Erys (2019) and CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3 (2020).[7] In 2022, he received a Grammy Award for Album of the Year nomination as a featured artist on Bieber's album Justice.[8]\n
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Jaden Christopher Syre Smith was born July 8, 1998, in Malibu, California,[1][9] the son of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith. He has an older half-brother, Trey Smith (b. 1992)[10] and a younger sister, Willow Smith (b. 2000).[11] Smith attended New Village Leadership Academy before being homeschooled by his parents.[12] Growing up, Smith's celebrity status due to acting in films such as The Pursuit of Happyness and his parents both being acclaimed actors led to him being isolated from having a normal childhood, something he has spoken on at length.[13] He took up skateboarding.[14]\n
Smith and his siblings were youth ambassadors for Project Zambi, which provides assistance in conjunction with Hasbro for Zambian children orphaned by AIDS.[15][16]\n
In 2010, along with Jackie Chan, Smith starred in The Karate Kid, a remake of the 1984 film.[18] In May 2013, Will Smith and Jaden starred together, playing father and son, in After Earth. In 2014, it was announced that Smith will return for the sequel Karate Kid 2 with Jackie Chan. The movie will be directed by Breck Eisner, produced by James Lassiter and Will Smith and written by Zak Penn.[19]\n
In April 2014, Smith was cast in the film The Good Lord Bird, which is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by James McBride. Smith plays Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in Kansas Territory in 1857 who encounters abolitionist John Brown.[20]\n
Smith took a break from acting following the release of his mixtape, Cool Tape Vol. 2 to focus on music, returning to act in Netflix original, The Get Down in 2017.[21][22] Smith also had a voice acting role in Neo Yokio[23] and a role in Nashville as himself. Commenting on his break from acting, he said \"The kinds of roles I was being offered weren't exactly what I was looking for, nothing felt really necessary that I needed to be in until this came along\".[24] Smith has returned to acting in films with the announcement of a film based on skateboarding.[25] On June 21, 2018, Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen released its first official trailer showcasing Smith as the main character.[26] The film was officially released on August 10, 2018, after being showcased at Sundance in Winter 2017.[27] In 2020, he starred alongside Cara Delevingne in the romantic drama Life in a Year, to positive reviews.[28]\n
On October 1, 2012, Jaden released his debut mixtape, The Cool Cafe.[31] Smith released the sequel to The Cool Cafe on November 8, 2014, titled CTV2.[32]\n
Smith started work on his debut studio album in 2014, a process that took three years.[33] Smith announced in December 2016 that his debut studio album would be titled Syre.[34][35] The lead single from Syre, \"Fallen\" was released on December 5, 2016,[36] three more singles were released, \"Batman\" and \"Watch Me\" on July 14, 2017, and \"Falcon\" on November 16.[37][38][39]Syre was released on November 17, 2017, and debuted at number 24 on the US Billboard 200.[40][41][42] \"Icon\" was released as a single on the same day[43] and reached no. 3 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.[44][45]\n
Smith later announced that his next project following Syre would be titled Erys on December 14, 2017.[46] Another project named Syre: The Electric Album was later teased via Twitter. Leading up to the release of the project, Smith released the single \"Ghost\" featuring Christian Rich.[47] On July 8, 2018, Smith released the project exclusively on Instagram on his 20th birthday.[48] The project was later released four days later to streaming platforms.[49]Syre: The Electric Album is a guitar-centric rework of Smith's studio album Syre and is influenced by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.[50] Less than a year later, on July 5, 2019, Smith released his second studio album, Erys, and debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200.[42]\n
On July 30, 2018, Smith was announced as an opener during J. Cole's KOD Tour alongside Young Thug and EarthGang[51] and on August 2, performed for the first time at Lollapalooza.[52] One of Smith's influences, Kid Cudi, stated that he would like to make an album with Smith, which Smith supported, saying that he would like to in the future during an interview on August 21, 2018.[53][54]\n
Jaden was managed by Will Smith's management company, Westbrook Entertainment, until March 2019 when Three Six Zero, an established management firm, acquired Westbrook.[55] Following the acquisition, on July 24, 2020, Smith released the single \"Cabin Fever\", from his third album CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3, which he described is a completion of the trilogy of the previous Cool tapes and \"also kinda completing the trilogies of Syre and Erys at the same time\".[56] The album includes a collaboration with Smith's friend and previous collaborator Justin Bieber, on the song \"Falling for You\".[57] On June 21, 2021, Jaden released the single \"BYE\". On August 27, 2021, Jaden released another version of the album CTV3: Day Tripper's Edition on all streaming platforms.\n
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Smith's influences include Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Kurt Cobain and Tycho.[58] Smith also considers his father, Will Smith, as an inspiration saying \"He started in music and transitioned to movies. I started with movies, and then I transitioned into making music \u2013 I look at him and use it as a blueprint of how good of a person he is, but not necessarily the success that he reached.\"[58]\n
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GQ described Smith as \"in a league of his own\" in terms of fashion and a \"superstar who has taken fashion to an entirely different level\".[59][60] Smith has called Tyler the Creator, Batman and Poseidon his icons when it comes to fashion.[61] Smith said that Tyler the Creator introduced him to the brand Supreme.[62] Batman's dark, gothic scenery has influenced the clothing he has created through his brand MSFTSrep[61] and his personal clothing style, wearing Batman protective armor to Kanye West's and Kim Kardashian's wedding and his prom.[63][64] MSFTSrep's range includes hoodies, T-shirt, trousers and vests. In May 2013 Smith collaborated with a Korean designer, Choi Bum Suk, to create a pop-up store in which customers can buy clothes with their collaborated logos.[65]\n
In 2016, Smith modelled in a womenswear campaign for Louis Vuitton wearing a skirt.[66] Explaining his choice to wear a skirt, Smith said he was attempting to combat bullying, saying \"In five years, when a kid goes to school wearing a skirt, he won't get beat up and kids won't get mad at him.\"[67] Smith continued to wear womenswear throughout the rest of 2016.[68] Smith was the first male model to model women's wear for Louis Vuitton.[69] Smith created a denim-line with fashion brand G-Star in 2018.[70][71]\n
Smith is a partner in spring water company Just Water[72] starting when he was just twelve years old.[73] Just Water is attempting to create a water filtration system that's cheap and can be used in poorer areas and nations[74] and wants to later help with water infrastructure and creating more environmentally friendly construction methods by producing its own drywall.[74] On August 27, 2018, Just Water launched officially in the UK.[75]\n
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Smith's father Will revealed that his son sought an emancipation ruling, with the consent of his parents, as a present for his 15th birthday. Will revealed to the media that Smith's primary motivation was the establishment of his own residence and also explained that his children are not subject to strict parenting conduct: \"We generally don't believe in punishment. From the time Jaden was five or six we would sit him down, and all he has to do is be able to explain why what he did was the right thing for his life.\"[76] However, Smith and his father appeared together on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on May 15, 2013, and Smith said:\n
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The thing that people don't get is everything at his house is free. So I can get anything and everything at his house, so I'm going to be there for 20, 30 more years. He [Will Smith] says that as soon as I have a movie that's bigger than one of his movies I can get my own house.[77]
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In June 2017, Smith moved out of his parents' house into a $4 million home in Hidden Hills.[78]\n
In 2013, Smith criticized traditional education and advised people to drop out of school.[12] discussing teenagers who attend public school, Smith said \"kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.\"[83]\n
Smith dated Sarah Snyder from 2015 to 2017.[84] Snyder inspired numerous songs on Smith's debut album, Syre.[85]\n
Smith is a vegetarian.[86] He started a mobile restaurant providing free vegan dinners for the homeless (but where others pay when they dine).[87] His vegan lifestyle caused his parents to stage an intervention, following a rapid decline in health that led to his skin turning gray. He was later diagnosed with lactose intolerance and celiac disease. His declining health, however, resulted in Smith returning to vegetarianism.[88][89]\n
Beginning in November 2018, Smith has claimed that rapper Tyler, the Creator is his boyfriend.[90][91] Tyler, who is bisexual, denied this claim.[92] In the song \"NOIZE\" on Erys in 2019, Tyler revealed while rapping that their relationship claims were sarcastic.[93]\n
Smith has been called a non-binary icon for his work in popular media challenging traditional gender roles.[94][95] He is often seen in gender-fluid clothing,[96] wearing dresses, skirts, and high-heels.[97] For his Vogue Korea editorial in 2016, he wore traditionally female attire: a black skirt, blue nail polish, and a flower in his hair.[98] He has made public comments such as \"If I Wanna Wear A Dress, Then I Will, And That Will Set The New Wave...\".[99] Smith said that the reason he wanted to wear skirts was to ultimately help kids get bullied less in schools.[100]\n
In 2023, Smith was the subject of an online death hoax after Facebook posts and YouTube videos claimed that he had died. Posts on various social media platforms claimed that Will Smith publicly announced the death of his son. This resulted in fans Googling whether or not the younger Smith had died. Many of the posts referred to Jaden as being only 15 years old.[101]\n
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"page_snippet": "Singer and musician Willow Smith is a child of Hollywood royalty who has made a name for herself in pop, R&B and rock, as well as joining her mother and grandmother on the talk show 'Red Table Talk.'Singer and musician Willow Smith is a child of Hollywood royalty who has made a name for herself in pop, R&B and rock, as well as joining her mother and grandmother on the talk show 'Red Table Talk.' ... Photo: Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 Presented by Amazon Prime Video ... Willow Smith grew up in the public eye as the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Willow Smith grew up in the public eye as the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. After acting in a few projects, in 2010 Smith released a song, \"Whip My Hair,\" that became a hit single. However, the demands of fame eventually stressed the young Smith to the point that she took a step away from performing. Smith later started making music as WILLOW. In addition to music, Smith co-hosts the popular talk show Red Table Talk with her mother and grandmother. Willow Camille Reign Smith was born on October 31, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. Smith is the daughter of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for Smith to experiment and overcome her doubts about making rock music. She said in 2021, \"Even though Black women still aren't super accepted in the rock world, times have changed. It was really my own personal insecurities that had stopped me doing this in the past. Now I hope I can be an instrument in helping more young women of color know they can do this.\" The album's first single, \"Transparent Soul,\" featured Blink-182's Travis Barker.",
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Singer and musician Willow Smith is a child of Hollywood royalty who has made a name for herself in pop, R&B and rock, as well as joining her mother and grandmother on the talk show 'Red Table Talk.'
Photo: Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 Presented by Amazon Prime Video
(2000-)
Who Is Willow Smith?
Willow Smith grew up in the public eye as the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. After acting in a few projects, in 2010 Smith released a song, "Whip My Hair," that became a hit single. However, the demands of fame eventually stressed the young Smith to the point that she took a step away from performing. Smith later started making music as WILLOW. She overcame personal doubts and embraced her lifelong love of rock to release the album Lately I Feel Everything (2021). In doing so, she staked her own claim to a genre of music with strong ties to the Black community. In addition to music, Smith co-hosts the popular talk show Red Table Talk with her mother and grandmother.
Early Life and Family
Willow Camille Reign Smith was born on October 31, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. Smith is the daughter of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. She has an older brother, Jaden Smith, and an older half-brother, Trey Smith. Her family's status meant Smith was raised in the spotlight.
Early Acting and Music
In 2007, Smith had a role alongside her father in the movie I Am Legend. She next appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) and joined her mother to voice a character in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008). She was also seen on the television show True Jackson, VP. As a teen, Smith performed vocally in Neo Yokio and Adventure Time.
Smith's first pop single, "Whip My Hair," came out when she was 9 years old. The song was a hit, ultimately going platinum and reaching No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, Smith signed a recording contract with Jay-Z's Roc Nation.
Smith had some follow-up success with songs like 2011's "21st Century Girl," but nothing was as popular as "Whip My Hair." She also came to dislike the pressure-filled lifestyle of performing. In 2012, Smith shaved her head during her "Whip My Hair" tour, an act of protest against continuing. She also decided she didn't want to take on the title role in a filmed version of the musical Annie that her father was producing. Smith has admitted she later started cutting herself in an attempt to deal with her emotional pain.
Smith told Pinkett Smith in 2018, "I definitely had to forgive you and Daddy for that whole 'Whip My Hair' thing. It was mostly Daddy because he was so harsh at certain times." Reflecting on her childhood career, in 2019 she told People magazine, "I was super young, and I had a dream, but all I really wanted to do was sing and I didn't equate that with all the business and the stress that ended up coming with it."
Though she'd rebelled against the demands on her, Smith didn't stop making music. Her debut album, Ardipithecus, was released in 2015. Her next two albums, The 1st and Willow, came out in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
'Red Table Talk'
Smith, her mother and her maternal grandmother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, had a tradition of sharing personal stories and insights among themselves. Pinkett Smith recorded and released one of these no-barriers, intergenerational conversations in 2013. Five years later, the women launched their own talk show, Red Table Talk, on Facebook Watch.
Red Table Talk has an informal set-up that harkens back to the family's earlier discussions. On the show, the three generations of women have tackled topics such as mental health, politics and sexuality. In 2021, Smith shared that she was polyamorous. Salma Hayek, Kevin Hart, Olivia Jade Giannulli and Jordyn Woods are among some of the high-profile guests who have stopped by the program.
In 2021, Red Table Talk won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Informative Talk Show.
Albums: 'The Anxiety' and 'Lately I Feel Everything'
The Anxiety, an indie rock album from Smith and partner Tyler Cole, came out in 2020. Along with the album, Smith and Cole took part in a performance art piece. Inside a glass box at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, they spent 24 hours embodying eight different emotional states linked to anxiety.
As a teenager, Smith had developed a love of rock while listening to groups like My Chemical Romance and Blink-182. Those influences were evident in her next album, Lately I Feel Everything, which came out in July 2021. The album, produced with Cole, is seen as pop-punk, though Smith has clarified, "I knew I didn't want to do a completely pop-punk record, I knew that it needed to have a mixture of some moody alternative, more melodic vibes because that's just who I am."
Smith has stated that Lately I Feel Everything is the kind of record she'd wanted to make "since I was literally 12," but she'd been hesitant about diving into this genre of music. For one thing, her training had been in the world of pop and R&B. In addition, Smith had watched her mother perform with her n\u00fc-metal band, Wicked Wisdom, in the early 2000s. She'd delighted in her mother's shows \u2014 but she also remembers the death threats Pinkett Smith received while on tour.
Lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for Smith to experiment and overcome her doubts about making rock music. She said in 2021, "Even though Black women still aren't super accepted in the rock world, times have changed. It was really my own personal insecurities that had stopped me doing this in the past. Now I hope I can be an instrument in helping more young women of color know they can do this."
The album's first single, "Transparent Soul," featured Blink-182's Travis Barker. It made it onto Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Other collaborators on the album include punk star Avril Lavigne, who accepted an invitation to join Smith on the song "Grow."
Fashion
As a teenager, Smith became known for wearing gender-neutral fashion. Her style also incorporates more daring choices in attire, hairstyles and makeup. However, Smith said in a 2021 interview, "I'm the kind of person who never really gets dressed up unless it\u2019s a part of my work."
Smith has been the face of campaigns for brands like Chanel, Cartier and Mugler.
QUICK FACTS
Name: Willow Camille Reign Smith
Birth Year: 2000
Birth date: October 31, 2000
Birth State: California
Birth City: Los Angeles
Birth Country: United States
Best Known For: Singer and musician Willow Smith is a child of Hollywood royalty who has made a name for herself in pop, R&B; and rock, as well as joining her mother and grandmother on the talk show 'Red Table Talk.'
Astrological Sign: Scorpio
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