Birth Name:
Mariah Carey
Birth Place:
Long Island, New York, USA
Birth Date:
March 27, 1970
Race or Ethnicity:
Irish, African, Venezuelan
The American singer was born to an Irish mother named Patricia Hickey and a father of Venezuelan and African heritage named Alfred Roy Carey. Mariah stated in an interview that her mother is a third generation Irish American.
She also mentioned on Lopez Tonight that she has a Venezuelan great grandmother on her father’s side. Unfortunately, her bi-racial family was the target of racial slurs and hostility while young Mariah was growing up.
Source:
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_8_37/ai_n27364315/
- http://people.famouswhy.com/mariah_carey
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sHE IS LATINA…DUMBOSSSS..AKA ..IDIOTS
SHE IS HALF WHITE(irish) AND HALF LATIN!! (afro-venezulian)
LATINOS ARE MIXED WITH WHITE,BLACK,NATIVE AMERICAN AND ASIAN!!!
sooo stfu!!! yall are stupid! she is latina /white
she isnt african american black.
theres a diff. between black americans and latin black people.
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME!!! EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE THE SAME AFRICAN ANCESTRY
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@”micheal jackson” your ignorant.
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I think tony is right, carey could pass by being latin or white but most definetly not black!!!
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walks like a latin woman!? it should say walk like a woman, dont discriminate!
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I don’t understand want to take credit for what nationality MARIAH is when I first looked at her she looked Latin to me. Just like SHAKIRA, she has those chinese looking eyes. All I want to say is that SHE LOOKS AND WALKS LIKE A LATIN WOMEN not white or african american. Oh and by the way anyone that has dark skin are obviously of african decent. Spain discovered so many country and loved the women..
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CAREY IS MOST DEFINITLY 20% LATIN. SHE SAYS IT HER SELF IN INTERVIEWS! STOP HATING ON THE LATINS JUST BECAUSE ALL OF THEM CAN FOOL PEOPLE WITH THEIR RACE! THERE IS SO MANY KINDS OF HISPANICS! PORTUGAL,ARRGENTINA,BRAZIL,PANAMA,DOMINICAN.REP,PUERTORICO, AND SO MANY MORE. PUT IT THIS WAY SOME LATINS LOOK WHITE WHILE OTHERS LOOK BLACK.
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She is an amazing singer and beautiful….. :-)
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Just because you Afro in front of something doesn’t mean their Just black. Her father would also have Spanish blood
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Venezuela is a Latin American country so that culture could be apart of her life.
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I agree with the half white, black and latina comment.
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