Lexi Jones knows she’s under pressure to live up to her late father’s legacy.
However, the daughter of Iman and the late David Bowie—who passed in 2016 following a battle with pancreatic cancer—shared a special poem she wrote to remind others that there is more to her than just being the music icon’s offspring.
“I’m the daughter of a legend, but I’m more than just his name,” she wrote in the poem posted to her Instagram April 10. “They see the blood, they hear the sound, yet fail to see me, don’t feel the same.”
Noting that she’s “not a copy, not a shadow” of her later father, Lexi—who released her debut album “Xandri“ earlier this month—continued, “They compare me to his heights, like I’m supposed to reach his light.”
Her words gave insight into how her goals aren’t to live up to her father’s legacy, but to love what she does and show her true self through her music.
“But I’m not here to chase what’s already been done,” she wrote. “By loving what I do, I feel I’ve already won.”
