Birth Name: Danielle Leigh Curiel
Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: circa 1995
Ethnicity: Dominican Republic
DaniLeigh is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.
Her parents are was Dominican. She was discovered by Prince at age eighteen, and was the choreographer for one of his music videos, “Breakfast Can Wait.” DaniLeigh writes songs in Spanish as well as English, and says she is proud to represent her Dominican heritage.
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LeCrae – 27th Annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards – Arrivals – The Beverly Hilton Hotel – Beverly Hills, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Koi Sojer / PR Photos
Birth Name: Le Crae Devaughn Moore
Place of Birth: Houston, Harris, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 9, 1979
Ethnicity: African-American
Lecrae is an American Christian hip-hop recording artist, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is the president, co-owner and co-founder of the independent record label Reach Records.
A DNA test whose results Lecrae displayed in an Ancestry.com commercial stated that Lecrae’s genetic ancestry is:
*80% African
——–*35% Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples
——–*29% Benin/Togo
——–*6% Ivory Coast/Ghana
——–*6% Nigeria
——–*4% Mali
*18% European
——–*18% England, Wales and Northwestern Europe
*2% Asian
——–*2% Phillippines
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Protoje and Dub Akom – Musa Cascais Festival 2012 – Day 1 – Praia de Carcavelos – Carcavelos, Portugal – Photo Credit: Rui M. Leal / PR Photos
Birth Name: Oje Ben Ollivierre
Place of Birth: Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Date of Birth: June 14, 1981
Ethnicity:
*African-Vincentian (father)
*African-Jamaican (mother)
Protoje is a Grammy-nominated reggae singer and songwriter. He is the son of Lorna Bennett, a reggae singer from Jamaica, and Michael Ollivierre, from the island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Gil Bellows, Olunike Adeliyi, Michael Eklund – “Errors of the Human Body” Los Angeles Special Screening – Arrivals – Arena Theater – Los Angeles, CA. USA – Photo Credit: DavidJLevin Photography / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Wendy Olunike Adeliyi
Place of Birth: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: January 5, 1977
Ethnicity: Yoruba Nigerian, possibly African-Jamaican
Oluniké Adeliyi is a Canadian actress.
Oluniké has stated that she has Yoruba Nigerian ancestry. She is also said to have Jamaican ancestry.
Oluniké has a daughter.
Birth Name: Ella Pascale Balinska-Emmott
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 4 October, 1996
Ethnicity:
*Polish, English (father)
*African-Caribbean (mother)
Ella Balinska is an English actress.
She is the daughter of television cook and model Lorraine Pascale and musician Count Kazimierz Balinski-Jundzill. Her father is of Polish and English descent. Her mother was born in London, England, to African-Caribbean parents, and was adopted by Audrey and Roger Woodward.
Ella’s paternal grandfather is Count Krystoph Baliński-Jundziłł (the son of Jan Baliński-Jundziłł and Maria Celestyna Niezabytowska). Jan was the son of Ignacy Baliński Jastrzębiec, who was born in Reginów, Rokiciny/Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Łódzkie, Poland, and of Maria Chomętowska Lis. Ella’s great-grandmother Maria was the daughter of Karol Stanisław Niezabytowski Lubicz, who was born in Oleszewiczach, Hrodna, Belarus, and of Zofia Łęska Ostoja.
Ella’s paternal grandmother is Katrina Emmott (the daughter of John/Jack Emmott and Mary Rycroft). Katrina is English, and was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England. John was the son of Willie Emmott.
Source: Genealogy of Ella’s father (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Place of Birth: Brent, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: c. January 2005
Ethnicity:
*75% English/British Isles
*25% Zimbabwean
Nico Parker is a British actress. She will star in the film Dumbo (2019).
She is the daughter of actress Thandie Newton and writer and director Ol Parker.
Nico’s maternal grandfather is named Nick Newton.
Nico’s maternal grandmother is named Nyasha. Nyasha is Zimbabwean. Nico’s mother has said that Nyasha is a Shona princess.
Source: Genealogy of Nico Parker (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
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Birth Name: Michelle de Paula Firmo Reinaldo
Place of Birth: Ceilândia, Federal District, Brazil
Date of Birth: 22 March, 1980
Ethnicity: Brazilian [Portuguese, Indigenous, African]
Michelle Bolsonaro has been the First Lady of Brazil, since 1 January, 2019. She was previously a parliamentary secretary of the Chamber of Deputies.
She is the daughter of Maria das Graças Firmo Ferreira and Vicente de Paulo Reinaldo.
Michelle is married to the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro She has two children, including a daughter with Jair.
Her husband has said:
I have blue eyes and my wife is of African descent. My father-in-law lives in Ceilândia, he is known in his circle of friends as Paulo Negão. He is not black, it is a mixture of Portuguese, black, and indigenous.
Michelle’s paternal grandfather was named Damásio Reinaldo de Souza.
Michelle’s paternal grandmother was Tarcisa Gomes Batista (the daughter of José Gomes da Silva and Antônia Tôrres Batista).
Source: Genealogy of Michelle Bolsonaro (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Skai Jackson – 2018 Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood – Arrivals – Sunset Tower Hotel, 8358 Sunset Boulevard – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: / PRPhotos.com
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 8, 2002
Ethnicity: African-American, African-Honduran
Skai Jackson is an American actress.
She has partial roots in the island Roatán, off the coast of Honduras. Her recent ancestors in Honduras are black.
Skai’s maternal grandmother is named Christine Cole (the daughter of Arlene Thomas).
Duckie Thot – 2017 BET Awards – Arrivals – Microsoft Theater – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: phred mosbey / PR Photos
Birth Name: Nyadak Thot
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date of Birth: October 23, 1995
Ethnicity: Sudanese
Duckie Thot is an Australian model and television personality. She was a contestant on the eighth season of Australia’s Next Top Model.
Her parents are South Sudanese refugees who moved to Australia. They belong to the Nuer tribe of South Sudan.
Among her siblings is YouTube personality and model Nikki Perkins.
Boney M. Featuring Liz Mitchell – Festival ERP Remember Cascais 2012 – Day 2 – Hipodromo Manuel Possolo – Cascais, Portugal – Photo Credit: Rui M. Leal / PR Photos
Birth Name: Elizabeth Rebecca Mitchell
Place of Birth: Clarendon, Jamaica
Date of Birth: July 12, 1952
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican
Liz Mitchell is a Jamaican-born British singer. She was a member of the vocal group Boney M., along with Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, and Maizie Williams.
Liz was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, and emigrated to London, England, with her family in 1963.
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Place of Birth: Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica
Date of Birth: October 14, 1948
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican
Marcia Barrett is a Jamaican-born British singer. She was a member of the vocal group Boney M., along with Bobby Farrell, Liz Mitchell, and Maizie Williams.
Marcia was born in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica, and moved with her parents to Croydon, England, in 1963.
Birth Name: Maizie Ursula Williams
Place of Birth: Brades, Montserrat, British West Indies
Date of Birth: March 25, 1951
Ethnicity: African-Montserratian
Maizie Williams is a British model and singer. She was a member of the vocal group Boney M., along with Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, and Liz Mitchell.
Birth Name: Roberto Alfonso Farrell
Date of Birth: October 6, 1949
Place of Birth: San Nicolaas, Aruba
Date of Death: December 30, 2010
Place of Death: Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Ethnicity: African-Aruban
Bobby Farrell is an Aruban-born Dutch singer, dancer, and performing artist. He was a member of the vocal group Boney M., along with Marcia Barrett, Liz Mitchell, and Maizie Williams.
Bobby was born in San Nicolaas, Aruba, and lived in Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany.
He was married to Macedonian Romani, Jasmine Shaban, with whom he had two children, including rapper Zanillya Farrell.
Birth Name: Samantha Gonsalves
Place of Birth: Kingston, Jamaica
Date of Birth: October 10, 1996
Ethnicity: Jamaican [African, Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish]
Samantha J is an Jamaican model, singer, and songwriter.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – NBCUniversal 2015 Summer TCA Press Tour – Arrivals – The Beverly Hilton Hotel – Beverly Hills, CA, USA – Photo Credit: PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Marianne Ragipcien Jean-Baptiste
Place of Birth: Camberwell, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 26 April, 1967
Ethnicity: African-Caribbean [Saint-Lucian and Antiguan]
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a British film and television actress. She was born in London, to parents from the West Indies. Her father is Saint-Lucian and her mother is from Antigua and Barbuda.
Lashana Lynch – “Septembers of Shiraz” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – Museum of Tolerance, 9786 W Pico Boulevard – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Izumi Hasegawa / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Lashana Rasheda Lynch
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 27 November, 1987
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican
Lashana Lynch is a British actress.
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Ethnicity: Nigerian
Adepero Oduye is an American actress, director, and writer. Her parents are Nigerian.
Birth Name: Birtukan Tibebe
Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine
Date of Birth: 28 March, 1992
Ethnicity: Ethiopian, Ukrainian
Berta Vázquez is a Ukrainian-Spanish actress, model, and singer. Her career began in dance, moved to performances, and finally to music.
In 2014, she had her first role in a film, Palm Trees in the Snow, based on the novel by Luz Gabás. She played Basila, who falls in love with Kilian (Mario Casas).
Berta was born in Kiev, Ukraine, to an Ethiopian father and a Ukrainian mother.
Birth Name: Shirley Klaris Yonavieve Edwards
Place of Birth: London, England
Date of Birth: 27 May, 1974
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican
Skye Edwards, sometimes simply Skye, is a British musician. She is known as the singer for electronic band Morcheeba, and for her solo career.
Skye is of Jamaican heritage. “Skye” is the acronym of her birth name, Shirley Klaris Yonavieve Edwards.
Skye and her two sisters were fostered by an English couple.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/
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Birth Name: Rui Hachimura
Place of Birth: Toyama, Japan
Date of Birth: February 8, 1998
Ethnicity: Japanese, Beninese
Rui Hachimurais a Japanese basketball player who was born to a Japanese mother and a Beninese father. Rui was born and raised in Japan and is able to speak Japanese and English as a second language. He stands 6 feet 8 inches tall or 2.03 meters.
