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Birth Name:
Alicia J. Augello-Cook
Birth Place:
Harlem, New York City, USA
Ethnicity:
Irish, Scottish, Italian and African American.
The American singer is multiracial. Her mother, Terri Auguello is of Irish, Scottish and Italian ancestry, and her father, Craig Cook is African American.
Keys stated that as she grew up in New York she never had to experience feeling “not Black enough” or “not White enough”. However she became comfortable with her biracial heritage as it allows her to relate to different cultures.
A lot of people believe I’m part Jamaican, though I’m not. I’m definitely black and Italian and a little Irish or Scottish.
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its june 12 in coutries like Australia, Japan and Singapore. we are half a day ahead of people in the US. strange isnt it.
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What?? it’s not June 12 yet??
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i think that, just like italians, save for the ones you described that are from Northern Italy, the arabs and people from the middle east tend to be described as people that have a Mediterranean features. Don’t quote me.
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thats true. some Italians especially from the North of Italy look very pale skinned. But the Italians from the South can look as dark as Arabs.
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i consider some latins such as italians & portuguese to be either light brown skinned(some call it olive) with a close resemblance to hispanics for eg.mexicans. Like some of the italians i grew up with. Meanwhile others look just white. To me the ones who look just white tend to have irish or english etc somewhere in their blood. I love the latins with the dark strong features.
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we all knew she was mixed just not whith what but shes so pretty
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WORK IT GIRL U LOOK CUTE
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well i guess she is white and black, unless you consider Italian as olive rather than white.
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wow! i thought she was just white n black…She’s beautyful regaurdless though.
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Yeah, I knew her dad was Jamaican. There’s alot of us!=)
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