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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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Italians are white in the sense of Caucasian however many are tanned, though the parts that don’t see much sunlight can be much paler than Northern Europeans… nonetheless Northern Europeans can be as tanned as most Southern Italians and vice versa. Or is someone who happens to be slightly swarthy suddenly not white?
White generally means Caucasian anyway which includes groups that can be as dark as Sub-Saharan Africans (for instance southern Indians).
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Alicia Keys is very beautiful.
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Italians are just like Spaniards – -they are white up north and Mediterranean down south with olive skin. Does anyone agree with me?
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Thanks Al for the interesting comment.
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Yes, I think they call people like us Mulattoes. I was born in Jamaica. My grandmother (God rest her soul) had indian and black in her. My mother had Jewish and black in her as well as Indian genes from my grandmother. My dad’s side is mainly black (Has direct Maroon heritage from Africa-thats the Africans in Jamaica where the English couldn’t control so they had their own society) but he’s light skinned and I believe he has some other roots. If you’re Jamaican, it really means you’re not directly from Africa unless you’re a full bread Maroon with very dark skin and it means you have genes from all over the world. I think our pot is more melted that anyone else if you figure the historical nature of Jamaican immigrants.
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a good song about a great city but well overplayed.
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that song is EXTREMELY over played, good but over played.
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SHE’S A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, WHO’S SO TALENTED .
BUT >>> I HATE HER NEW YORK SONG WITH THAT JAY Z GUY WHO CAN’T CHOKE OUT A DECENT NOTE, NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIES !
HE SHOULD STICK TO PRODUCING, AND LEAVE THE SINGING TO HIS TALENTED WIFE.
ALONG WITH JETER , THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE THAT HIP HOP SONG THE OFFICIAL SONG OF THE YANKEES…. WELL, …. WON’T HAPPEN ! ;0((
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jenny that is really cool,nice mix! :)
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To bad boy.inc
my father is Jamaican too :)
He’s half indian[fathers side 100%]
and his grandfather is also European.
but his grandmother is Afro-Jamaican [mothers side 50/50]
I just thought that was cool that we had that in common =]
there are many different races of people in Jamaican.
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