“Rocker Girl Vibe”: Wayne Gretzky’s Daughter Paulina Wanted to Make People ‘Fall in Love’ With Her Artistic Abilities in 2012

The daughter of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, Paulina Gretzky, is a multi-talented personality. The 34-year-old is a model, actress, and pop singer. Although Paulina is now related to several ventures, she first began her journey as a pop singer. In early 2000, Paulina started singing pop music appearing at many prestigious contests. During an interview in 2012, she opened up about her music and how she wanted to make people fall in love with her artistic abilities. 

Classically trained Pauline Gretzky first made her music debut in 2003 at Heritage Classic singing I Will Remember You. The following year, she sang the Canadian national anthem at the 2004 Hockey World Cup in Toronto, Canada. Gretzky has released a song titled Collecting Dust on MTV’s reality series, The Real Orange County. Even though she didn’t pursue her singing career for long, let’s delve more into her artistic indulgences. 

Paulina Gretzky on her style of music

After Paulina’s controversial Twitter upload in 2012, people had multiple opinions about her. However, the budding 23-year-old pop singer made herself heard through an interview with Complex in 2012. In that interview, she also opened up about her musical aspirations and goals. 

The interviewer asked her to describe the style of music that she had been working on. The 23-year-old Paulina explained, “It’s very pop mainstream. When I first started, I wanted this Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani rocker girl vibe, but then I grew up and changed. I have a very raspy voice.”

She also revealed the idols that inspire her to create unique music, “My inspiration has always been Stevie Nicks. Hopefully, it won’t sound like what everybody else is doing right now, and hopefully people will see the uniqueness in my voice and fall in love with it.”

Paulina first began her musical journey at the age of 16. She went to Interlochen [Center for the Arts] where she studies Opera. 

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Apart from her musical career, Gretzky explored her potential as a model and an actress. As a model, she appeared on the FLARE magazine cover in 2005. Paulina also played the role of a gorgeous blonde senior” in the 1980 musical remake, Fame.

Wayne Gretzky’s achievement inspired Paulina Gretzky

Being a famous personality’s child comes with many pros and cons. People generally perceive that star kids live in parents’ shadow. During the interview, Paulina was asked if she felt the same. 

The Great One replied to it by saying, “By no means.” She also added, “What he’s done has only been inspirational for me.”

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As a child, Paulina was interested to play hockey. However, by 13 or 14, she decided to create her own career in an industry completely different from that of her father’s. This goes to say that Paulina Gretzky wanted to have her own reasons to be worthy of the name, Gretzky.