Ciara
Ciara in 2007, Joe Seer/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Ciara Princess Harris
Place of Birth: Bell, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 25, 1985
Ethnicity: African-American, small amount of English
Ciara is an American singer, songwriter, businessperson, record producer, dancer, model, and actress. Her songs include “1, 2 Step,” “Oh,” “Get Up,” “Promise,” “Like a Boy,” “Love Sex Magic,” “Ride,” “Body Party,” “I Bet,” “Level Up,” and, in a featured role, “Lose Control” and “Like You.” She has been a Global Brand Ambassador for Revlon cosmetics, and formed her own label, Beauty Marks Entertainment. Her roles include the films All You’ve Got, Mama, I Want to Sing!, That’s My Boy, and The Color Purple (2023), and the series The Game.
Her parents, Jackie Smith and Carlton Clay Harris, are both African-American. She was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up on army bases in Germany, New York, Utah, California, Arizona, and Nevada, as her parents served in the U.S. army. She spent her teen years in College Park, an Atlanta suburb.
Her name, Ciara, is of Irish origin, and means black or dark. She was said to have been named after Revlon fragrance Ciara.
Ciara is married to professional football player Russell Wilson. She has a son with her former fiancé, rapper, singer, and songwriter Future; and three children with Russell.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2024) stated that Ciara’s genetic ancestry consists of:
*85% African
*13% European
*2% Native American
Genetically, he was found to have a common ancestor with professional baseball player Derek Jeter, through Derek’s maternal European ancestry.
Ciara’s paternal grandfather was named William Edward Harris.
Ciara’s paternal grandmother was Ruth Armstrong (the daughter of Luther Armster/Armstrong and Nazarine/Nazarene/Nazzarene Russell). Ruth was born in New York, New York, to parents from South Carolina. Luther was the son of Charles “Charlie”/Charley Armster and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Gardner, whose own father, Aaron Gardner, likely was born into slavery. Nazarine was the daughter of Henry Russell and Lula Daniels.
Ciara’s maternal grandfather was Eddie Lee Head (the son of Willie Bub Head and Louella Griffin). Willie was the son of Walker Lafayette Head, who was white, and of Emily Redding, who was black. He was raised by his mother and her husband, Nathan Head, who was black, and came from a family that had worked for Walker’s family.
Ciara’s maternal grandmother was named Gladys Mae Stewart.
Sources: Meaning of the name Ciara – http://members.tripod.com
Marriage record of Ciara’s maternal great-grandparents, Luther Armster/Armstrong and Nazarine/Nazarene/Nazzarene Russell – https://www.familysearch.org
To ohplease!
RACE DOES NOT EXIST!
There are only nationalities and ethnicites, but not races.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!^^
Its so funny how people try to sound so intelligent and get into fights over this kind of stuff. Half the people on here arguing are complete idiots and the ones who are non chalant about it are the smart ones.
Truly, if anyone really knew thier facts, they would know that race doesn’t really exist. So for as “black” as a lot of people may think they are only comes from the social concept of race, not the biological truth of it (since it doesn’t exist).
Anyway, Ciara is superrrrrr pretty! ^^
I meant 1/3 of white americans have african blood according to the study
Studies show that 80% of Black people in the US have European blood and 1/3 of have African blood…the anthropologist was on Oprah talking about it. And for the haters that posted earier from the UK please I am American but was born in Germany I lived in the UK for several years and I can tell you west indian and african blacks born and raised in Britain have not room to criticize blacks in the US you bragging about being british when you are a product of slavery just like the rest and have you on jacked up problems over there so have your tea and stfu!
@ satanist…I never thought of it like that…hmmm good point!