Christina Milian
Milian in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Christine Marie Flores
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 26, 1981
Ethnicity: Cuban [African, Spanish]
Christina Milian is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She has starred in the films Love Don’t Cost a Thing, Torque, Man of the House, Pulse, and Falling Inn Love, and on television’s Movie Surfers and Grandfathered. She has also been credited as Christine Flores-Nash, the latter name from her former husband; Christina Flores, Christine Flores, and Christine Milian.
She was born in New Jersey, to Cuban immigrants, Carmen and Don Flores, who are of African-Cuban descent, with Spanish ancestry. A picture of her father can be seen here. She uses her mother’s surname. Christina was raised mostly in Waldorf, Maryland.
Christina is able to speak Spanish.
Christina has a daughter with her former husband, singer, songwriter, and record producer The-Dream; and two children with her partner, French singer and songwriter M. Pokora.
Christina’s paternal grandfather was Cuban boxer Jose Ramon Flores.
Pictures of Christina’s paternal grandparents can be seen here and here.
She’s Cuban (Period). There are also lots of people in Cuba who look “Chinese” Bcuz their ancestors were Chinese, but they are 8th, 9th, & 10th Generation Cuban. Just like Americans, technically the only “Real Americans” are the indians. (By the way, America is not a Country, It’s a continent, U.S. is a country). So, at what point is a person considered to be a Cuban, American, Mexican, or whatever it is that they are, if everyone has descended from somewhere else..?? We are all a product of the culture that surrounds us, “our” present, not our great grand parent’s past.
if she’s born in America she’s also American not just Cuban alone.
But remember Cuba isnt an English speaking country like England New Zealand or the USA. Blacks who live in Cuba grow up in a latin culture, therefore they speak Spanish and have a latin mentality. Therefore her parents are of course latino and Milian is Hispanic American.
When I read that she was Afro Cuban a while back, I was wondering what did that mean. That means that Christina Milian parents are Africans/black who lived in CUba! LOL Just like Black people who live in London, or New Zealand, or Canada! That doesn’t mean she’s spanish! She does look black and spanish though, not black and white. That’s what I don’t get! Pitbull is Cuban and he looks like the typical spanish/latino, not white, definitely not asian, and really not black. That’s why I really do believe that there had to be a “Latin” race! I think whoever classified the three races, Negroid, Caucasian, Mongoid… didn’t trace back far enough and just said that spanish people were either white, black, or mixed. If that’s the case, why are their features so distinct? Bi Racial black and white people here don’t look like the “mixed” black and whites in the spanish speaking countries… of course you have someone who is mixed who could look like another race, but I’m talking about the majority of the group. Anyway, she’s black but has some mixed heritage.
i agree with you ethnic
my Nana is Cuban, and i also have Cuban friends, they have Hispanic hair and they look Cuban they do not look black, there ancestors may have been African but through the years through interracial partnership and whatever their Cuban. they also get annoyed when people call them black.