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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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Yes there is a thing called ‘afro-jamaican’ jamaica doesnt have 1 race in it, you have chinese,indian,pakistani,syrian,Lebanese,German,spanish,british.
So black people are considered ‘afro-jamaican’ in jamaica.
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thats absolutely right
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Jamaican fully
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afro-jamacian? nah such ting
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Afro-Jamaican is correct
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She is afro-jamaica, cause she considers herself as half black.
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almost all eropeans are white and where they have not turned olive in the sun many greek italian etc have pale skin like those in northern and the rest of europe
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Afro-Jamaican because she considers herself half black.
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Er, Jamaican is not an ethnicity. Most Jamaicans are of African descent, but many are a mixture of other races. Just what kind of Jamaican is Alicia Keys?
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yes the local time is tomorrow. haha
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Yeah i realized that this website must be located in Australia or England or some place like those with ahead time zones AFTER i clicked ‘submit’. I was being all selfish thinking of my part of the world only ha ha.
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