“On August 1, at 10:24 PM, Zonne Thomas Daniël was born. Our radiant center. Named after himself, his daddy and his grandfather,” Coosje writes with a photo of the boy.
Zonne is Ernst Daniel’s sixth grandchild. The opera singer has been suffering from Parkinson’s disease since 2017, an incurable disease in which certain brain cells slowly die. Smith announced in 2019 that he was suffering from the disease. Last July, he underwent brain surgery that would improve his motor skills, which had deteriorated due to the disease. That operation, which involved some risk, went well, his partner said at the time The Telegraph.