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.The Boom Boom Room developedand owned by Smith and located in Burbank, California, justblocks from several major entertainment studios featuresstate-of-the-art sonics along with the latest recording gearand technology.Providing the  most comfortable and securefacility in the Greater Los Angeles area, clients can relax whileenjoying a top-notch, worry-free recording experience.Smith is also a big reader.He believes he can find answers toany problem old or new by reading the proper book.62WILL SMITHNearly every year, Smith takes his mother, Caroline, tothe Canyon Ranch spa in Tucson, Arizona, for a vacation.Although Caroline now wears a prosthetic leg after break-ing her left leg and then needing amputation after a badinfection, she spends much of her time helping others.Shevolunteers at the Maternity Care Coalition, located right inthe same neighborhood where she raised Will Smith and herJada Pinkett SmithOn September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, Maryland, Adrienne Banfield gavebirth to a baby girl and named her Jada Koren Pinkett.The baby girl s ances-try was West Indian, Creole, and Portuguese Jewish.Banfield, who was preg-nant with Jada while in high school, later married the father, Robsol PinkettJr., a contractor; the marriage lasted only a few months.Much of Jada s childhood was spent in the rundown Pimlico section ofnorthwest Baltimore.At the age of 14, however, she won a place at the Bal-timore School for the Arts, where she majored in dance and choreography,graduating in 1989.One of her classmates there was rapper Tupac Shakur.Atop-selling recording artist, he was also a budding actor and a social activ-ist.Jada remained close friends with him until his death following a drive-byshooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, in September 1996.Jada moved to Los Angeles after studying theater for a year at the NorthCarolina School of the Arts.She began acting in 1990 with a part in TrueColors, a short-lived sitcom.Her career started to blossom with a role in thelong-running NBC series A Different World, produced by Bill Cosby.Overall,she has appeared in more than 20 films, the most widely acclaimed beingAli, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions.Trying her hand at business ventures, Jada opened her own music com-pany, 100% Womon Productions and, in 1994, created Maja, a line ofclothing featuring women s T-shirts and dresses bearing the slogan  SisterPower. The fashions are sold mostly in small catalogs.Jada met actor Will Smith when she auditioned on the set of Smith s tele-vision show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.The two married in 1997 and sheadopted the name Pinkett Smith.They have two children, Jaden and Willow.Pinkett Smith is also stepmother to Trey, Smith s son from a previous mar-riage.Although they have homes in Philadelphia, on Star Island in Miami63Life Off-screenother children.She notes that  there are probably a lot ofthings I could do, but it probably wouldn t be as fulfilling asworking with the babies.Because Will and Jada believe in a hands-on approach toparenting, they take their roles as father and mother veryseriously.Instead of sending their kids to public schools,they have decided to homeschool their two younger children,Beach, Florida, and in Stockholm, Sweden, their primary home is a 27,000-square-foot mansion on 100 acres in the mountains near Malibu, California.In 2002, under the stage name Jada Koren, Pinkett Smith formed the highlysuccessful metal rock band Wicked Wisdom, for which she is lead vocalist andsongwriter. I listened to all kinds of metal as a kid.Metallica, Guns N Roses.Iwould always look at Axl Rose and say,  Why aren t there any chicks out theredoing this now? I always wanted an opportunity to get out there and rock out.Pinkett Smith also directs music videos for newly emerging rap groups.Pinkett Smith published her first children s book in 2005.FeaturingPinkett Smith and her daughter, Willow, the book is titled Girls Hold Up ThisWorld.When asked what message she hoped to convey in her book, PinkettSmith replied,  Don t be afraid to be you.Know that you are exceptional.Youcan do anything if you believe in it and are motivated to work for it.That s amessage I feel that young girls often don t get.We spend a lot of time tryingto live up to someone else s ideas of who we should be. In 2005, along withmany other celebrities, Pinkett Smith invested in Carol s Daughter, a line ofbeauty products for African Americans, created by Lisa Price.Pinkett Smithserves as spokeswoman for Carol s Daughter.Pinkett Smith regularly pays motivational visits to shelters and inner-cityschools.Additional humanitarian work is directed to children and familiessuffering in South Africa.Citing her  superb artistic work in film and musicand her humanitarian efforts in youth education and family welfare bothnationally and internationally, Harvard College Dean Benedict Gross namedPinkett Smith the Harvard Foundation s 2005 Artist of the Year. I m a lot of things, Pinkett Smith says. We all are as women.And ifI m not allowed to be all those things, I lose that vibrancy and that light thatmakes me beautiful.64WILL SMITHwhile Trey, the eldest, attends a private high school.Smithbelieves that memorizing obscure facts and figures is notwhat an education should be about.He would rather hischildren read, for example, Plato s Republic and Aristotle sPolitics [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]