Birth Name:
Shaffer Chimere Smith
Birth Place:
Camden, Arkansas, United States
Date of Birth:
October 18, 1982
Ethnicity:
African-American and Chinese
The R&B singer, Shaffer Chimere Smith AKA Ne Yo, is of African-American and Chinese ethnicity. His Grandfather was Chinese on his mother’s side. His father is African American. He regards himself as ”Black and Chinese” and stated this on an interview.
Source:
http://artists.letssingit.com/ne-yo-wvp3c/biography
http://concreteloop.com/interviews-neyo
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The man is black and Chinese. He isn’t pure black. Get over it!
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@Stacy lol:) good comment
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Both of his parents are African-American why couldn’t he just leave it at that? Not he had to pull out his old dusty grandpa and say I’m part Chinese.
Jeez just be proud to be Black. You look it!
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i dnt think he has any chinese i think he is lying
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umm, ive seen a pix of his mom and in no way does she look chinese… her eyes aren’t even chinky like his………really……? she just look like a beautiful african american woman…. i could b wrong, her black genes could be stronger but hey….. google a pix of them together…..
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some of yall gotta stop deciding FOR Neyo what you think he looks like. it’s your opinion but his blood doesn’t lie. even he said in an interview he considers himself black and chinese. for whatever part of himself he chooses to express himself as either ethnicity it’s all up to him. don’t be thinking just cause he isn’t walking around speaking chinese that some part of him isn’t chinese.
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oh an look at his mom she does not look mixed at all. and she supposedly is the half chinese one. bullshit.
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that is so damn stupid he cant call himself black and chinese he is black. why do blacks do that. just cuz they have an 8th or 16th or a quarter of something else they are now mixed. im 1/4 german does that make me black and german or german. no it doesnt im just black. black people need to stop.
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If he is mixed with chinese it’s too far back to count
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Haitibaby, no one, including ne-yo says he’s haitienne, there is no such thing as a haitienne nose! just cause he has a big nose doesn’t mean he’s haitienne. And haitienne isn’t an ethnic group, they are just africans brought in from the slave trade mostly from Benin Republic descent. Ne-yo ‘s second name is Chimere, his father was an african american of Igbo Nigerian descent. So they honoured there Igbo side by giving him an Igbo name. Look it up. You should all stop claiming him for countries he has never even thought of belonging to, and get straight up facts.
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