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Birth Name:
Cassandra Ventura
Birth Place:
New London, Connecticut, USA
Date of Birth:
August 26, 1986
What Race or Ethnicity:
Filipino, African American, Mexican
The R&B singer and model was born to a Filipino father and an African American/Mexican mother.
Here is a pic of Cassie with her mother. Also here’s a pic of her two grandmothers. She stated her ethnicity in the interview below, and refers to her mother being Black and her father being Filipino. However in a 2008 edition of Complex, she stated that she has Mexican heritage too.
Source:
- August/September 08′ issue of Complex magazine
- http://latina.com/
- http://au.askmen.com/celebs/women/singer_300/343_cassie.html
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I feel like she may be a poser. I was looking at her family members on that link posted and her mom looks about as black as she does.
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she looks spanish… i always thought she was Puerto Rican and Black.
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although some of you may deny her latin roots her name is cassandra ventura which is pretty mexican to me . it even says it right here
http://www.latina.com/entertainment/music/15-musicians-you-never-knew-were-latino?slide=8
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