photo credit: Anirudh Koul
Birth Name:
Vanessa Lee Carlton
Birth Place:
Milford, Pennsylvania
Date of Birth:
August 16, 1980
Ethnicity:
Scandinavian, Irish, Jewish-Russian
The American Pop Singer is most famous for her single A Thousand Miles.
Her father is of Scandinavian and Irish descent, and her mother is Jewish but was raised in Russia. In an interview on teenmusic.com she stated that she was half Scandinavian and half Russian.
She has also regarded herself as Jewish but was not brought up in that religion.
Source:
http://www.teenmusic.com/d.asp?r=6470&cat=1058&testcookie=1&p=2
Celebrities sharing the same heritage:
Carlton is of Scandinavian and —-Irish Catholic—- descent on her father’s side, and Russian Jewish descent on her mother’s.[1]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Carlton
http://www.teenmusic.com/2002/04/29/vanessa-carlton-a-thousand-miles-to-here
Hey Adriana, thanks for the links but it doesnt mention irish in that interview, despite being on Wiki.
I thought she was Chinese American.
yugoslavic to me
She looks russian to me.
she looks very Asian maybe Korean and Russian mix?
her mother is ethnically Jewish but grew up in Russia. I guess thats where she gets her dark features.
Is she Russian or Jewish?