Mýa
Mýa in 2010, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Mýa Marie Harrison
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., U.S.
Date of Birth: October 10, 1979
Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*Italian (mother)
Mýa is an American recording artist, songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress. She made her debut with her self-titled album in 1998, and has appeared in the films Love for Sale, Penthouse, and Shall We Dance? She is known for her beautiful vocals and can dance various styles from Hip-Hop to Tap. She appeared on season nine of Dancing with the Stars. She is also known as My My, Mya-Re, Smoove Jones, and Mýa Lan$ky.
Mýa was born in Washington, D.C., to an African-American father, Sherman Alphonso Harrison, Jr., a musician, and a mother of Italian descent, Theresa Marie, who is an accountant. She has stated:
My mother’s mother is from Italy, right outside of Rome. My dad is African-American. His grandmother is American Indian.
Mýa’s paternal grandfather was Sherman Alphonso Harrison (the son of Sherman Catlett Harrison and Lou Ethel Ware). Mýa’s grandfather Sherman was born in Essex County, Virginia. Mýa’s great-grandfather Sherman was the son of Catlett Alfonso Harrison and Carrie Muse Holmes. Lou was the daughter of Willie Allie Ware and Julia A. Fortune.
Source: http://randb.about.com
Mýa’s paternal grandfather, Sherman Alphonso Harrison, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Mýa’s paternal great-grandfather, Sherman Catlett Harrison, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Mýa’s paternal great-grandmother, Lou Ethel (Ware) Harrison – http://www.legacy.com
If you were born in the United States of America then you are an American. Your birth entitles you to everything everyone else born here is entitled to. You people from the Caribbean are so naive and delusional. My parents were both born in the Caribbean but I was born here which makes me an African- American.And that is exactly what I go by..I see no other paperwork but my birth certificate. Caribbean people, get a life! Stop trying to take credit for America’s superstars. And as for Rhianna, people in Barbados continue to say she’s better than any American but you fail to realize that America Made Her. (producers, writers, fans, sales, etc) If she was still in Barbados, she’d be nothing to the world. It is what it is.
One drop rule is wack.
…of course as u can see, MYA is black, she may be mixed with some shit but the girl is african american. ALICIA keys is african american too for that dumb ass who said that mya and alicia keys don’t have any african american in them. That is a dumb stupid comment. I mean look at them, they’re obviously black. They may not be all black but everyone knows that black dominates and if u have any black in u at all then u’re considered black, duh!!
@shaye …You’re a dumb ass! One drop rule no longer rules so you need to wake up to the modern age. You sound like an idiot when you say that ‘any black in u at all then u’re considered black’ …If that bull sh*t even made sense, then the one drop rule would still be in existence! It’s only existing in your pea brain and the other idiots that agree with you. Plus, learn how to spell!
you people are stupid. pure people….. jerks
african american/afro american is a black american. afro jamaican is a black jamaican. their two different things
Her father is Jamaican. Mya was born and raised in the US making her African American and Italian American.