Vanessa Carlton
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photo credit: Anirudh Koul
Birth Name:
Vanessa Lee Carlton
Birth Place:
Milford, Pennsylvania
Date of Birth:
August 16, 1980
Ethnicity:
Scandinavian, Jewish-Russian
The American Pop Singer is most famous for her single A Thousand Miles.
Her father is of Scandinavian 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
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March 1st, 2009
Is she Russian or Jewish?
March 2nd, 2009
her mother is ethnically Jewish but grew up in Russia. I guess thats where she gets her dark features.
October 31st, 2009
she looks very Asian maybe Korean and Russian mix?
January 4th, 2010
She looks russian to me.
February 26th, 2010
yugoslavic to me