Aaliyah
Aaliyah in 2001, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Date of Birth: January 16, 1979
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Death: August 25, 2001
Place of Death: Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, Bahamas
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican, African-American, possibly some Native American
Aaliyah was an American R&B singer, actress, dancer, and model. She starred in the films Romeo Must Die and Queen of the Damned. She was also known as Baby Girl.
Her parents, Diane (Hankerson) and Michael Haughton, are both black. The name Aaliyah is from the word Aliyah, which is of Hebrew origin, meaning “highest, most exalted one, the best.” Her uncle is record producer and music manager Barry Hankerson, who founded Blackground Records, and was previously married to singer Gladys Knight. Aaliyah’s brother is writer, director, and screenwriter Rashad Haughton. She was said to be a cousin of Tek-N-Steele, of hip hop duo Smif-N-Wessun. Aaliyah was killed in a private plane crash.
Aaliyah had stated:
When I wake up in the morning I am African-American, and when I go to sleep at night I am African-American, and I can assure you I love who I am…
Her father is of African-Jamaican descent and her mother is of African-American ancestry.
Aaliyah has sometimes been cited as having a Native American grandmother, or as having a grandmother with some Native American ancestry. It is not clear if this ancestry has been verified/documented. A photo of her maternal grandmother Mintis can be seen here.
Aaliyah’s paternal grandfather was Franklin Gresley Reid Haughton (the son of Solomon Ehud Haughton and Lilia Margaret Bell). Franklin was a Jamaican emigrant, from Darliston, Westmoreland. Solomon was the son of Robert Samuel Haughton and Judith Richardson. Lilia was the daughter of Joseph Zebulon Bell and Ester Jemima Walker.
Aaliyah’s paternal grandmother was Gladys Lucille Burton (the daughter of Joseph Francis Cato Burton and Adella Adelaide Allen). Gladys was a Jamaican emigrant, from Bagnold Spring, Saint Mary. Joseph was the son of Francis Cato Burton. Adella was the daughter of Henry Staines Allen and Esther Adelaide Anderson. A picture of Gladys can be seen here.
Aaliyah’s maternal grandfather was Ernest W. Hankerson (the son of Waddy/Woddie Myers and Susie Hankerson). Ernest was born in Bullock, Georgia. Waddy was the son of Henry Myers and Andenia/Hannah/Anna Hankerson. Susie was the daughter of Henry Hankerson and Rachel Peeples.
Aaliyah’s maternal grandmother was Mintis L. Hicks (who possibly was the daughter of Daniel Hicks and Anna Scott). Mintis was born in Barnwell, South Carolina. Anna was the daughter of Sam Scott and Millie.
Sources: Genealogies of Aaliyah – https://www.geni.com
https://www.wikitree.com
Everyone google West African Taureg women, they are very diverse and gorgeous. They live in Mali, and considered subsaharan black women . Igbos and Fulanis are gorgeous too. Click link
https://dekhnstan.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/a-disaster-50-years-in-the-making/
Aaaliyah next to Halle Berry and multiple pics
http://necolebitchie.com/2010/01/in-memory-of-aaliyah/fatima-and-aaliyah/
http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=741482
Check out this pic of Aailyah and Beyoncé they have several pics together.
http://bossip.com/438553/red-carpet-throwback-beyonce-interviews-aaliyah-at-the-2000-mtv-music-awards-video12006/
@noneofyourbussiness , the Uk has many Jamaicans unfortunately in Jamaica and other parts of the Carribean, class and wealth followed with skin tone. And the poorest Jamaicans, who went to the UK were the darkest in skin tone. Those are mainly the blacks in the UK who intermix with whites. So the mixed race category in the UK has alot of people who would be black in America by appearance. This is because thier parent was very very black skinned. Many of the lighter skinned Carribeans, Africans migrated to America because they had more money (its historical). For example Colin Powell was a very light skinned upper class Jamaican. Of course there are dark skinned upper class blacks as well. But the black economic skin tone disparity is why Paris and the UK has super dark black immigrants and America did not (in the 50s,60s)
There are many errors in your statement. To say mainly dark skinned Jamaican’s came to the UK is silly. Migration was not based on skin colour but on economics. How many Jamaican’s you know are”very very black skinned” Jamaican’s vary in skin tone from white to black. How very black can black be?
Speaking as a second generation Jamaican of brown skin tone ( with family menbers ranging from Halle berry ‘fair’, Queen Latifa ‘brown’ and Whoopi Goldberg ‘dark’ I get the feeling you are not of Jamaican heritage. My father is fair, my mother is dark. I am surrounded by plenty of neighbour hood fair skinned Jamaican’s to see that dark skinned Jamaican’s does not mean poverty. Many Jamaican’s of all hues came to the UK ‘the Mother-land’ because of promises by the UK government. Some were professional, teachers, farm workers and engineers. many came here and ended up not being able to practice their skills due to a colour bar system and the UK really needed migrant workers to rebuild the Britain after the war. Colin Powell is a relation of mine and I can assure you he has a huge extended family in England….yes! as fair as he and they are, and they have been here since the 1950’s. Colin Powell is also a second generation Jamaican. Where did you get ‘upper class’ from? His family comes from St Elizabeth on the South coast of Jamaica. No way near upper class. Just hard working people from a tight knit farming community. Your obsession with the words very very dark /super dark clearly shows your mind set. I’m sure Colin my family member would be embarrassed to read what you have written.
I know a lot of African Americans say she was just black, but you’d have to be brainless idiot to say she didn’t have any European genes at all. She looked very mixed, I have googled pictures of her. I even added her picture to this “lookalike” web site and all the results were white actresses. I wouldn’t classify her as black and if she grew up in the UK she’d be considered mixed race. The UK doesn’t believe in that “one drop rule” bullshit.
Correction ~ You’d have to be a brainless idiot to say she didn’t have any European genes at all.
She’s BLACK!!!!!!
Correctio n ~ You’d have to be a brainless idiot to say she didn’t have any European genes at all.
@noneofyourbussiness Aaliyah was a whole lot more than one drop. You dont know black people obviously. People in the UK are very limited because you have very dark Africans or very dark Carribeans, you dont have the light skinned blacks like in America or the Carribean so your views are skewed. Black people look different, different shades, etc skin tones. In England most of those blacks come from darker black areas of Africa etc. I know ive been to Europe. You have many Ghanian blacks and Sudanese. You have not seen a variety of black people. And the black people who mix with whites are usually the very very darkest blacks and not the lighter ones. I assume some mix due to color complexes. You cant compare a first generation mixed person who may have Aaliyahs skin tone to a light skinned black that may have had one white ancestor 100 years ago. They may be the same color skin tone but not the same.
I maintain you can be 85 percent black African and 15 percent other and still look like Aaliyah. Also you have to account for hair straightening and lighting , etc.
@noneofyourbussiness , no she does not have to have European dna or recent. Even 200 yrs ago slavery ancestors would be too far back to count.
Why would someone with two black parents be classified as mixed race?