Jada Pinkett Smith

Pinkett Smith launched her music career in 2002, when she helped create the metal band Wicked Wisdom, for which she is a singer and songwriter. Smith also created a production company, in addition to writing a children\'s book, Girls Hold Up This World, which was published in 2004.\n', '

She has been married to actor and musician Will Smith since 1997. They have two children together, son Jaden and daughter Willow. Through their marriage she is also stepmother to Smith\'s son from his first marriage, Trey Smith.\n', '

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Jada Koren Pinkett was named after her mother\'s favorite soap-opera actress, Jada Rowland. Pinkett Smith is of Jamaican descent on her mother\'s side and African American descent on her father\'s side. Her parents are Adrienne Banfield-Norris, the head nurse of an inner-city clinic in Baltimore, and Robsol Pinkett, Jr., who ran a construction…