Adrienne Bailon-Houghton
Bailon-Houghton in 2010, Dylan Armajani / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Adrienne Eliza Bailon
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 24, 1983
Ethnicity:
*Ecuadorian (father)
*Puerto Rican (mother)
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton, previously known as Adrienne Bailon, is an American recording artist, singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She was an original member of pop groups 3LW, along with Naturi Naughton and Kiely Williams, and The Cheetah Girls, along with Sabrina Bryan and Williams. She has also been credited as Adrienne Houghton.
Her father, Freddie Bailon, is Ecuadorian. Her mother, Nilda Felix, is Puerto Rican. Adrienne is married to Christian music singer, songwriter, producer, and worship leader Israel Houghton, with whom she has a son.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show The Real (2016) stated that Adrienne’s genetic ancestry consists of:
*57% Europe
——–*36% Iberian Peninsula
——–*7% Italy/Greece
——–*7% Ireland
——–*5% Europe West
——–*2% Great Britain
*28% American
——–*28% Native American
*8% West Asia
——–*8% Middle East
*7% Africa
Adrienne’s maternal grandmother is named Carmen Zayas.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com
Her maternal grandmother was Carmen Zayas y Garcia, daughter of Margaro Zayas Rosado and Carmen Garcia Otero (daughter of Jose Garcia and Carmen Otero).
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6CQ-Y61
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJL-R97C
According to census they’re white, but according to draft records Margaro was black.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSW-DXGB
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDG-7M2T
Wait, no, scrath that. That might not be her. Her name was Carmen Zayas, but I’m not sure if that’s her on that census.
Adrienne stated her mother was 40% African on The Real.
Reminds me of Ashley Tisdale
She reminds me of Alexa PenaVega. I still find it difficult to tell them apart
She’s tri racial being dominant European and native. 85 percent. She seems to have had a great, great grandfather or mother which is 1/16, 6 percent. She is 7 percent African. Puerto Rico had many african slaves so perhaps She got her African ancestry there.
@cwm85 She could have gotten the African admixture from when the black African Moors conquered Spain and ruled over them for hundreds of years before slavery.