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Pink is gearing up to go on tour – and reporting for duty is her 11-year-old daughter, Willow.
The 43-year-old musician and mom of two, has revealed that she's given Willow a real paying job on her upcoming Trustfall tour and will be taking her six-year-old son, Jameson, with them.
"She [Willow] has a job on tour, but we just need to go over her minimum wage; it’s different state to state," she said in a recent interview.
She's admitted to having trouble negotiating her daughter's salary as it's something Willow needs to learn. But the whole point of the job is to teach her some good negotiation skills.
The three time Grammy winner's ninth album tour is set to start on 7 June in the UK, then go to the US on the 26 July – and she'll be paying Willow $25 (R458) per show.
The tour will continue until March 2024 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Willow has inherited her mom's musicality and they've previously collaborated on projects, including a rendition of A Million Dreams off the soundtrack of 2017 film, The Greatest Showman, they also worked together while performing Pink's hit song Cover Me In Sunshine at the 2021 Billboard Awards in Los Angeles.
Pink previously opened up about sensitive topic of death and the difficulty of discussing it with her children.
Revealing that she broached the topic of death with, Willow and Jameson, following the loss of her father, Jim Moore, in 2021, and more recently, the passing of the family nanny, Trish.
“She was one of the loves of our lives,” Pink says.
In an interview with Women’s Health, she also shared how Trish, who succumbed to cancer, helped the kids prepare for her death by telling them that she will be their angel. “So, Jameson walks around the kitchen and goes, ‘Hey, Grandpa, hey, Trish'," she says.
She also heard her youngest talking to his angel while they were on a hike, saying, “Trish, I know you’re up there, you’ve got to make the wind stop!”
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The Funhouse singer has been on an emotional roller coaster over the past few years.
In early 2020 she fought Covid-19 alongside her son and a few months later, in August 2021, she lost her father to cancer.
Pink (43) is working on a new album, Trustfall, which speaks about her recent experiences. "It’s very, very true to what I believe and where I am and what I’m feeling and what I think a lot of people are feeling," she says.
Losing her dad reminded her that we all have "a certain amount of time left", she says.
"I just started making music and melodies. And it came together."
The album isn't only about pain, though. It also taps into feeling as if the world is falling apart and the “f***-it-might-as-well-have-fun attitude that’s useful when the world is falling apart", she says.
Her first single of the album, Never Gonna Not Dance Again, was released recently.
The upbeat track, which is about not wasting time, was widely welcomed by fans.
"The song is just about how the only thing I want to do is find joy," Pink says. "I don't want to worry anymore. You can take everything I have, but you can't take my joy."
The singer is embarking on her Summer Carnival tour later this year in the US and Canada. "It's going to be amazing," she gushes.
"I have new music to play with, and that just makes me so excited – and I'm going to learn skills and things that I've never done before."
Sources: Women's Health, GMA, Today.com
