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Birth Name:
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Birth Place:
Bay City, Michigan, United States
Date of Birth:
August 16th 1958
Ethnicity:
Italian, English and French Canadian
The pop idol Madonna Louise Ciccone was born to a French Canadian mother and a 1st generation Italian-American Father. Her mother is French Canadian with mostly French descent with some Swiss & English ancestry.
Source:
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/madonna/
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Cool. I consider Italians white some people don’t but I do. Madonna is obviously a white woman.
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So are italians Go to italy italian people there are way different the the ones in america
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It’s pronounced Se-cone-EE, I go to the same high school Madonna went to (Rochester Adams) and when they talk about her that’s how pronounce it, claimimg she always had a fit when it was pronounced wrong.
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is it me or is almost everyone italian, irish, german, french?
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Yeah their all European And europeans are who make up 75% or more of the poulation
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How do you pronounce that surname? just curious…
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I think its pronounced Chi-ko-ni
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No,you have to pronunce the e at the end as an italian pronunciation,so it’ like the english “a”,not the english “e”
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The E at the end of her last name is pronounced like “eh”. For example, when you say the word “Everything” it’s that E sound at the very beginning of the word.
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Lady Gaga is trying to copy her but will never be as good IMO.
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Gaga does not copy her :\
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Lady Gaga is more like Gwen Stefani.
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she’s italian more than anything…great for her!
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She’s only half Italian. Her other half is what saved her.
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yeah,but her italian influence are stronger then the candians.
and she always refer herself as an Italian american…almost in every interview
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What A pointless coversation shut up who cares Europeans are all the same
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oh yes thats why they were no wars in europe because they are so alike lol
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yeah,shes basically half italian & the other ethnicity’s are about less than 50%,but all sides are beautiful(as for every ethnicitys)No Need for which sides saved her.
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UMMM, We are asking if you are white or more than white??? I just am so bit of connffffusing but I hope I can see Madoonnna one day… UM yeah. I think so.. ^.^
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I KNEW SHE HAD TO BE SOME OTHER THEN WHITE!
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White is not a race dum ass all the people you consider white are either irish,deutch,italian,german,welsh,french,cicilian,lithuania,English,romananian,And many more. And when they live in america over 100 yrs their considered white which they are.
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they aren’t dumb asses white IS a race
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In this Time magazine article she is quoted as saying French Canadian and Italian.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957025,00.html
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Dear Ethnic,
Just a little heads up. Celebs sharing the same heritage is not the same if a person is French-Canadian, like Madonna and then have a French person from France, like Edith Piaf or Catherine Deneuve.
It would be like equating Puerto Ricans with Spaniards. Yes, the roots may be the same but FC & PR are mixed in with native, indigenous North Americans for over 400 yrs.
So Avril and Celine would be the ones with similar heritage, not Catherine.
Thank you.
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Thanks Anonymiss, good point.
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according to wikipedia, she is of Germanic descent too..but wikipedia isn’t always so reliable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)
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