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20.04.2023 / 01:57
Will Smith “couldn’t stop crying” as he watched daughter WILLOW’s Coachella set
Will Smith has shared footage from his emotional experience from watching his daughter WILLOW’s set at Coachella.Having spent recent years becoming popular in the rock sphere off the back of her 2021 Travis Barker-assisted pop-punk album ‘lately i feel EVERYTHING’ and her 2022 boundary-pushing fifth album ‘COPINGMECHANISM‘, the 22-year-old WILLOW took to the desert to make her Coachella debut where her father, the actor and rapper Will Smith was in the audience.Posting to his Instagram feed, he showed off his pride in her performance with two posts.A post shared by Will Smith (@willsmith)He captioned one “WILLOWCHELLA!” and, in another post, he confessed he “can’t stop crying!”A post shared by Will Smith (@willsmith)All of WILLOW’s family have embarked on musical careers: the Oscar-winning actor Smith was a Grammy award-winning rapper prior to his breakthrough role in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, mother Jada Pinkett Smith was once in nu-metal band Wicked Wisdom, and her brother Jaden Smith has followed suit has released acclaimed albums such as 2017’s ‘Syre’ and 2020’s ‘CTV3: Cool Tape Vol.3’.Coachella also saw Jaden accompanied WILLOW on stage to perform the siblings’ collaboration, ‘Summertime In Paris’.Got to witness a really special moment at Coachella — Willow Smith, Jaden Smith, and a proud father.