Grammy-nominated singer Coco Jones reflects on her Hollywood journey, revealing how facing rejection as a child star shaped her into the performer she is today.
Jones, who had been looking down at the ground in a moment of intense concentration, heard the audible validation and her eyes darted up at the crowd. She flashed a wide smile, a missing side tooth reminding the audience of her youth even as her voice conveyed a maturity beyond her age.
Fellow multihyphenate Keke Palmer has often reflected on the difficulties of being a child star and the need to fund her own projects after struggling to get support from fickle industry execs. Both young Black women are only now experiencing the success they’d been promised time and again, decades after their entry into the Disney machine. The conviction Jones has possessed since childhood should also be attributed to her parents.
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