Birth Name: Marques Barrett Houston
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of Birth: 4 August 1981
Race or Ethnicity: African-American, Mexican-American
Marques Barrett Houston (born August 4, 1981) in Los Angeles, California, is an American R&B singer, rapper, and actor. A member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx until 2002, he went solo in 2003.
He was born to an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother.
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http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/marques_houston/biography.html
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I remember seeing his mother before she died, she is at least half black, she was definitely mixed! But she isn’t 100% Mexican.
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i never knew he was
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I remember a picture of him and his mother in a magazine before she passed away … and I know you can’t always tell by just looking… but she appeared to be black to me.
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i never thought he was mexican
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Not true both of he’s parents are black. And he’s mother dead of cancer when become a big star. Unless he quoted it ill beleave it. I know cause I was a big fan back in the day!!
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yeah and its your word over his
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he’s half mexican he said so in an interview
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