Sean Paul

Paul in 2006, photo by Adam J. Sablich / Shutterstock.com

Birth Name: Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques

Place of Birth: Kingston, Jamaica

Date of Birth: 9 January, 1973

Ethnicity: Jamaican [African, as well as one eighth Sephardi Jewish, German, English, Chinese]

Sean Paul is a Jamaican recording artist, dancehall rapper, singer, record producer, and actor. His paternal great-grandfather was a Sephardi Jew (whose family was from Portugal, as well as more distantly from the Netherlands, Germany, Serbia, and France). His other ancestry includes Afro-Jamaican, German, English, and Chinese. Sean was raised Catholic.

Sean is married to Jamaican television host Jodi Stewart, with whom he has two children.

Sean’s paternal grandfather was Ronald Barrington Henriques (the son of Nathaniel Morais Henriques and Isabel/Isabelle Viola/Violet Eisner). Nathaniel was born in Kingston, to Sephardi Jewish parents, Isaac Cohen Henriques and Hannah Vaz. Isabel was the daughter of Carl August/Augustus Eisener/Eisner and Medora Jane Tomlinson, who had German, English, and likely Afro-Jamaican, ancestry.

Sean’s paternal grandmother was Marjorie Teresa Corbett (the daughter of Alfred Clarence Leonard Corbett and Ianthe Isabel Bawn). Marjorie was of African-Jamaican background. Alfred was the son of James Corbett and Mary E. Ianthe was the daughter of James Bawn.

Sources: http://www.ynet.co.il

Genealogy of Sean Paul (focusing on his father’s side) – http://www.geni.com

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52 Responses

  1. princess says:

    to all you haters who says he is ugly yall mom and u is uglier by the way y yall hatin because he is jamaican did u get ur ass whooped from a jamaican because thats the most popular reason for americaating jamaicans.

    • midori29 says:

      @Princess, I saw him in concert. Sean Paul looks better in pics, his head is unusually wide, in a strange way. he is not so fine in person.

  2. total23 says:

    Ethnic, His Mother Is Of English And Chinese Descent.
    His Father Is Of Afro Caribbean And Portuguese Descent.

    http://www.deadendinternet.com/forwardupward/seanpaul.html

    “My grandmother on my mother’s side was born in Coventry, England, but the rest of my grandparents were Jamaican in origin. My mother’s father, however, is Chinese and my father’s father is from Portuguese descent. My grandmother on my father’s side is mixed with black and white.”

  3. quioe says:

    he look half indian, not native but from india

  4. m0mo says:

    sean paul is sexy yall hatin

  5. shaye says:

    rite i don’t know what yall talkin’ bout neither…sean paul is fine as hell and his accent is such a turn on

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