Pink, 9-year-old daughter Willow stun with emotional aerial performance at Billboard Music Awards

Like mother, like daughter. 

Pink has repeatedly wowed us with her gravity-defying live performances, taking flight with the help of suspended ropes and aerial silks at the Grammys and American Music Awards, as well as on tour. 

Her 9-year-old daughter, Willow Sage Hart, got in on the fun at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards, where Pink (real name: Alecia Moore) was honored with the Icon Award. The pop star began her hits-filled medley with “Cover Me in Sunshine,” her sweet duet with Willow released earlier this year.

Willow joined her mom on stage for a breathtaking performance of the track, suspended in air as they spun and hung upside down: dancing, laughing and smiling throughout. 

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Willow Sage Hart, left, and Pink perform on stage at the 2021 Billboard Music Award. (Photo: Christopher Polk/NBC)

It was a heartfelt and moving mother-daughter moment, and yet another reminder of Willow’s immense talent. Along with “Cover Me in Sunshine,” she previously sang on “The Greatest Showman: Reimagined” album in 2018, and performed on Disney’s holiday special last November. 

But according to Pink, Willow has no desire right now to follow in her mom’s footsteps as a singer when she gets older. 

“It’s not her dream,” Pink recently told USA TODAY while promoting her new Amazon Prime concert documentary “All I Know So Far.” “She wants to go to the Culinary Institute of America and become a baker in New York, and then have an amusement park and possibly a water park. She’s been sending me Zillow listings of condos near Disneyland.

“She’s off on a whole ‘nother thing, but the thing that’s so interesting about her is she’s just an odd bird. She does whatever she likes, but she doesn’t take anything too seriously.”

Pink also shares son, Jameson, 4, with husband Carey Hart.

The “Raise Your Glass” artist finished out her Billboard performance Sunday singing her new documentary’s title track, and a supercut of past hits including “So What” and “Just Give Me a Reason.”

She then thanked Jon Bon Jovi, who presented her with the Icon Award in person at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, and professed her childhood crush on the ’80s rocker. 

Pink, left, accepts the Icon Award from Jon Bon Jovi on stage for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. (Photo: Christopher Polk/NBC)

“I did not come out of my room for a week when you married Dorothea (Hurley),” Pink said with a laugh. “I was 8. I ripped your poster off my wall, I replaced you with Sebastian Bach. And I’m very glad that you found lasting love, John, but you broke my heart. I take this as an apology – I accept.”

“I love what I do and I love the people that I get to do it with and we’re pretty good at what we do,” Pink continued. “But it wouldn’t matter if no one came to see us and play with us.” 

She concluded by expressing her hope for the day that live music returns in earnest post-pandemic, when “we can just sweat all over each other.” 

“This is an absolute honor,” Pink said. “Dream big, because what if it comes true?”

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