Barbara Pravi
Birth Name: Barbara Piévic
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Date of Birth: 10 April, 1993
Ethnicity:
*25% Serbian, including distant Romani
*25% Iranian
*50% Jewish [Ashkenazi, Sephardi]
Barbara Pravi is a French singer, songwriter, and actress. She represented France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, and finished 2nd, the best result for the country since 1991.
Her father, Marc Piévic, is an ethics professor. Her paternal grandfather is from Serbia, and her paternal grandmother is Algerian Jewish. Her mother, Emmanuelle, is of Iranian/Persian and Polish Jewish descent.
She has stated:
I have always known that “pieva” is “the singer”, and that “Piévic” [her surname in the civil status] means “the children of the singer.”
Her ancestor was originally named Milovanovic, with the name coming from a Romani/Tzigane ancestor, who was a singer. Barbara took the name Pravi as an homage to her Serbian ancestry, from the Serbian word pravi, meaning “real” and “authentic.”
Barbara’s paternal grandfather is named Petar Pjević. Petar was born in Belgrade, Serbia.
Barbara’s maternal grandfather is Iranian painter, calligrapher, and sculptor Hossein Zenderoudi (Charles Hossein Zenderoudi). Hossein was born in Tehran.
Sources: https://twitter.com
https://www.purepeople.com
https://24sedam.rs
https://www.instagram.com
https://www.poreklo.rs
She stated that her last name comes from a Romani/Tzigane ancestor, who was a singer :
« I have always known that “pieva” is “the singer”, and that “Piévic” [her surname in the civil status] means “the children of the singer”».
Her ancestor was originally named “Milovanovic”.
https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/culture/musique/4108383-20240906-realite-fiction-melangees-barbara-pravi-traces-origines-album-pieva
https://www.instagram.com/p/C73r_IZq7vO/?igsh=dDQ2b2ZsdHh1a2gz
I found a forum comment that mentions her grandfather from 2016.
It’s on the link:
https://www.poreklo.rs/2012/03/01/pjevi%C4%87/
I’ll try to translate it.
”The native Pjević family in the area of Užice are from the village of Bioska. During Turkish times an old woman nicknamed Pjeva and her three sons had a caravan post on the Dubrovnik-Belgrade route in Bioska, near Rujno monastery. After shutting down her operations, she settled one of her sons named Periša, in Bioska, right by the monastery, second son near Kosjerić, and the third son near Foča (Bosnia & Herzegovina). Periša had 4 sons, and each of them had 4 more children, so that’s how a large family was formed. Their slava was Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Apostle Peter on 29.01., but due to great cold, they changed it to St. Peter and Paul on 12.07., with priest’s approval.
They migrated to Čačak, Kragujevac, Zrenjanin and Belgrade, and one of their descendants Pero (nickname for Petar) lives in Paris.”
The rest of the comment is about other descendants, so I didn’t translate it.
My additions are in the parentheses.
No mention of singers, or Roma people.
Her paternal grandfather is named Petar Pjević, he was born in Belgrade, Serbia : https://24sedam.rs/showbiz/ringe-ringe-raja-doso-cika-paja-barbara-pravi-ima-srpsko-poreklo-vidite-sta-je-od-deke-naucila/
Her father, Marc Piévic, is an ethics professor.