The eldest daughter of Bono has told of her family’s ‘shock’ when she told them she wanted to be a musician – as she admits she won’t be asking the U2 frontman for advice.

Under the stage name, Jordan Joy, Jordan announced her first single, Don’t Kill the Vibe, last month.

But the 36-year-old, who is a graduate in political science from Columbia University, said her famous family were ‘all shocked’ when she told them that she was releasing new music.

Asked what her U2 father thought about her venture into music, she said: ‘All shocked. Music was always a very private thing for me. Even piano—I would get up in the morning before anyone was awake to play.

‘It was really important to me that I could do it without people listening. I don’t think they ever thought I would want to get to a space where I wanted to share that side of myself.

‘They definitely knew I was an artist and a creative, anyone who’s known me my whole life would understand that. But I think they saw it as a growth in me,’ she said in an interview with Flood magazine.

But Jordan said she doesn’t plan on asking her superstar dad for advice, saying: ‘Being an artist, the task is learning how to listen to yourself.

‘Art is a dangerous place for advice, because you start to doubt your instincts, and instincts are kind of all you have. I see it as something I have to take on completely as an individual.’

The new track has been hailed by R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe as the ‘the song of the summer,’ while it has also been praised by Julian Lennon, son of late Beatle John, models Helena Christensen and Christy Turlington, and actress Jessica Alba.

In 2016, Jordan founded Speakable, a tech company aimed at promoting social activism and landed a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019.

But she said she is still trying to figure out how to approach the creative industry with the same drive and ambition as when she founded her successful company.

‘I think I’m figuring that out, you know, with where the industry is and doing it independently. I was not really approaching it with so many expectations, but I am the type of person that puts everything into what I do, for better or worse. And I just know that I’m going to give this everything that I have because of how much I care about it and how good it feels to be doing this.

‘I’m having so much fun doing it. But I suppose I’m doing it more for me and my own fulfilment. I think as an artist, you can’t make any decisions that are about pleasing other people. And so in music, it’s hard not to do that because you’re playing to crowds and you’re looking at streams and things like that,’ she said in an interview with 1883 magazine. 

She said she is ‘really exited’ to make her first record, saying ‘that’s just a huge dream of mine’.

‘I hope it lets me continue doing this and really build an audience around it. I’m really excited to make my first record and that’s just a huge dream of mine, probably a secret dream that I had forever and one I never really thought I would do, so I’m shocked with myself that I’m doing it.

‘I want to fulfill my, I guess, potential as an artist and know that I have really served it well.’