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potentially overshadow all the positivity of the show.
“Her manager and the estate are keen to protect her interests. They feel she has a bright future in this industry.”
Paris began making music at the age of 12, a year after her father died.
Although it has taken her 10 years to follow in his footsteps, it was always clear she would.
Another promo includes clips of rare family videos made at Neverland – the sprawling Jackson estate with an amusement park and zoo, where Paris and brothers Prince, 23, and Blanket, 18, spent their early years.
He left there after his 2005 trial and never returned, but it is still partowned by his estate. Showing her as a wide-eyed kid, in one clip Michael asks: “What does Paris want to be?”
When she replies: “I do what you do”, he asks: “What do I do?” Paris smiles: “You dance and sing.”
At that age she had no idea he was a global superstar with 13 Grammys.
But she knows she has big shoes to fill. His 1982 album Thriller is still the bestselling album of all time, with
Paris and Gabriel in documentary sales of more than 66 million. Worldwide sales of all his albums are estimated at 750 million.
And while he was worth around €240million when he died, his estate has made another €1.9billion since.
Paris and her brothers are each worth around €100million.
So she knows she can afford to try new things. And the indie rock, folky sounds and spiritual, hippy vibes she has created are certainly that.
Paris says: “A Jackson doing folk indie? Not what they expect.
“I want to influence self-acceptance and courage. I’ll love it if my music connects with someone and helps.”
Boyfriend Gabriel tells how Paris speaks candidly about her family – something she has previously avoided. He says supportively: “For the first time, she’s letting her honest voice come out. It’s something to work on.”
It is a bold move for Paris, who has fought drug addiction and depression.
After a sexual assault by a stranger when she was 14, she struggled with her mental health for years.
She has twice attempted suicide, once when she was just 15.
But after extensive therapy, she now uses music as an outlet for her trauma.
Going by the stage name PK Dragonfly – her middle name is Katherine – her haunting songs include such lyrics as: “I can never stop those demons that enter my dreams.” She has said previously that
Paris is going for indie hippy vibe
Paris with dad Jacko playing together at family’s Neverland mansion her father visits her in her dreams, adding: “I feel him with me all the time.” Prince – whose mother, like Paris, was Jacko’s second wife Debbie Rowe – has turned to charity work, saying his father would be proud “not only to spread his message of positivity but to see it enacted in his kids”.
Jacko’s youngest son – known as Blanket when his dad dangled him over a hotel balcony at nine months old to show fans in 2002 – now uses the name Bigi, but shuns the limelight.
kelly.jenkins@reachplc.com