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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Either Vanessa’s fooling everyone or the ones who interviewed her had iPods in because I could’ve sworn so many other sites, actually every other site, stated she is also Indonesian. I can definitely see Indonesian in this chick.
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Her mother is Russian Jewish, but her father is Scandinavian and Native American. That is why her features are dark. It was said somewhere in an interview.
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Lily,
do you have a link to that interview?
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Vanessa Lee Carlton is just beautiful, no matter if she’s Jewish, Persian, or anything else I like her for who she is, and I Love her music and her voice…I fall into the sky when I hear her sing and play. <3
Vanessa Is Totally Awesome……………….[Period]
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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
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Hey Adriana, thanks for the links but it doesnt mention irish in that interview, despite being on Wiki.
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I thought she was Chinese American.
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yugoslavic to me
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She looks russian to me.
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she looks very Asian maybe Korean and Russian mix?
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her mother is ethnically Jewish but grew up in Russia. I guess thats where she gets her dark features.
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Very informative.
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Is she Russian or Jewish?
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