Birth Name:
Fantasia Monique Barrino
Birth Place:
High Point, North Carolina, USA
Ethnicity:
African American with possibly some Cuban ancestry
The American Idol contestant was born in High Point North Carolina.
She has an African American Mother and a Father who is rumored to be of Cuban Descent. Barrino stated this in her autobiography, Life is not a Fairy Tale. This would explain her surname, Barrino which is an unusual surname for African Americans in North Carolina.
Celebrities sharing the same heritage:
There are black people in Latin America just as black as Michael Jordan or Wesley snipes. They just have Spanish last names as opposed to northern european as most of us do.
Lots of black folks in Latin America have been kicked to the side of their societies. Ever listen to Cuban music? That alone would tell you there are black people there
HEy EtHNiC, fANtASiA iS 0f pUERt0 RiCAN ANd AfRiCAN dESCENt, hER fAtHER MUSt BE pUERt0 RiCAN ANd bLACk 0R jUSt pUERt0 RiCAN. HER HALf-bR0tHER SAyS tHAt AND hiS NAME iS RiCC0 bARRiN0 ANd HE CALLS HiMSELf pUERT0 RiCC0. SOURCE: puertoriccmusic.com
S0… y0U SH0ULd ChANGE tHAt.! tHANkS.! =]]
hmm he calls himself Puerto Ricco but doesnt really mention much about his Latino roots…
To you people saying “the article is wrong about her being Cuban or Puerto Rican”, you do realize that there are Afro Latino people from those countries (and others) that look just as African American as you and me but have accents as thick as their hair.
every ones considered mixed though cuz both ur parents have unique back round cant no one be whole some thing anymore both ur parents got crazy genes and deep ancestory no one knows really but u will be shocked when u really find out whats in ya blood so yes she can be cuban she afo cuban im happy or her go fantasia .
she can be cuban wtf do skin color got to do with it her freakin last names barrino it is a latin last name duh . and yes there are afro cubans afro rican afro american afro trini afro german too. and the lists goes on people gotta understand we had the most harsh and worst slavery we were slinged every where it dont mean u not frm there because u dark or got short hair. it jus means she african decent but the slave owners shipped her african ancestors there to cuba while some others where shpped to the south. so use common sense she a black cuban get over ths racial hump u only hurt ur self being stuck on skin color and on more thing just because u spanish dnt mean always lite skin its where u frm make u a latino u can be black or white llokin as long as ur frm south america u considered latin skin color aint shit
we r all mixed…if u were born here in america u r mixed…
haters hate all u want and learn to love yourself…
GOOO FANNI!!!!!
alot of cubans are afro cubans anyway so i believe that shes mixed… why are people so stuck on skin color and hair? if shes mixed shes mixed
Fantasia is beautiful for what ever reason.These comment just goes to show how black people are not black and proud.Why in the @#$$ are we worried about what the @#$%^ color FANTASIA BARRINO is..she is the D@#m color the LORD made her….You all sound like a bunch of poor ignorant poor stuopid low self esteem no money blacks who want to be any thing but black.Just shut the “H” up go to school get some education use the gift “GOD” GAVE YOU and stop worrying about FANTASIA.
just pray for her and thank GOD he gave her that beautifull singing voice and thant god for the TALENT he gave you…..WHAT EVER IT IS….Yall so stupid and my stupid behind was actually reading this mess…….Love for ever…..
CUBAN PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE AFRICAN BLOOD, THE SAME AS BRAZILIANS. THE EURPOEANS MIXED WITH OR HAD INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH SOME OF THEIR AFRICAN SLAVES, THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED HERE. BASICALLY, IF YOU ARE NOT FROM AFRICA, YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF MIXTURE IN YOU, EVEN SOME AFRICANS DO. DO A GENAEOLOGY TEST AND YOU’LL FIND OUT! JUST BECAUSE HER SKIN IS DARK DOES NOT MEAN SHE’S NOT MIXED. MY FATHER’S PUERTO RICAN AND HE’S VERY LIGHT, BUT HIS COUSINS ARE MILK TO DARK CHOCOLATE. AND THEY’RE FULL BLOODED PUERTO RICAN, ONLY SPEAK SPANISH, NEVER LEFT THE ISLAND. AND THAT GOES FOR CUBAN PEOPLE, BRAZILIAN PEOPLE. AND EVEN INDIAN PEOPLE FROM INDIA HAVE SHADES THAT ARE DARK CHOCOLATE TO WHITE CHOCOLATE. DO SOME RESEARCH AND LEARN!
My fiance is a black Cuban so there is a possibility she is.
I mess up,meant to say wouldn’t have needed protection
To Shane,
Here’s some other things,when ever your described as black as ink,and the only thing white about you are your teeth;your black(song of roland).Also pictures and other stories before the whitewashing have always depicted the moors as black people.Examples:Estevanico the moor(black man),Benedict the Moor
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Benedict_the_Moore-icon.jpg
Black man.
http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/106394/1/A-Moor-In-A-Crimson-Edged-Robe,-Venice.jpg
http://www.canvaz.com/b/Berchem-Nicolaes/Merchant%20Receiving%20a%20Moor%20in%20the%20Harbour-s.jpg
I could go on for days with this stuff,but don’t get me wrong yes there were white moors,but the majority were black.One more thing,the moors weren’t have needed protection if they were just olive skinned.