Alicia Keys

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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.

Source:

http://www.startribune.com/

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Brent August 7, 2009 at 8:01 pm

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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hank August 7, 2009 at 9:36 pm

thats absolutely right

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me July 31, 2009 at 11:58 am

Jamaican fully

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me July 31, 2009 at 11:57 am

afro-jamacian? nah such ting

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ethnic July 12, 2009 at 8:17 pm

Afro-Jamaican is correct

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Brent July 12, 2009 at 2:43 am

She is afro-jamaica, cause she considers herself as half black.

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Anonymous July 7, 2009 at 5:40 am

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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ethnic June 29, 2009 at 10:55 pm

Afro-Jamaican because she considers herself half black.

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Marie June 29, 2009 at 4:27 pm

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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ethnic June 15, 2009 at 1:30 pm

yes the local time is tomorrow. haha

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italian June 15, 2009 at 1:02 pm

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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