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
I’m not conceited anonymous. I’m just commenting on the previous comment. I am tired of hearing people say everyone wants to be like white people. that’s just plain crazy. I am a black women and very proud of it. I like all races of people and everyone should be proud of who ‘they’ are and not trying to be like someone else.
A lil conceited? :P
NOOOOO…it is Not safe to say that white is the standard of beauty. Not in my world. I don’t aspire to be like any white women. I LOVE being a black beautiful women who has an associates degree in accounting and currently going for her bachelors. White women aspire to be like Black women. They want tans to look like us. They wish they could do there hair like ours. They want our style and especially our men. I don’t know what other races ‘aspire’ to be like them but it is not the black race. We don’t want to look like them, act like them nor date their men. I have white women that hate on me at work because I look good. They are always looking to see what I’m wearing and very jealous I going to get my 2nd degree…..Go Figure!
I have one question, why is it that you people can “easily assume” that people like ashanti, aaliyah, nia long, keri hilson, ciara, will smith, jada pinkett etc.( From the comments that I have read so far) are “MIXED, THEY JUST HAVE TO BE” although they haven’t made any comments about being mixed. Yet it is hard for people to believe that lil kim, fabolous, neyo etc.could possibly be mixed? IS IT BECAUSE YOU BASE IT ON LOOKS?
And im not talking about people like barack obama, halle berry, alicia keys etc., because these ppl are mixed ( parents of a different race within their immediate family).
But why do you ppl consider the ppl i mentioned in the first paragraph mixed although they and their parents look black to me and the rest of the world( if these ppl weren’t famous and you saw their parents/ immediate family members on any given day, i know you would consider them black. Try Googling or Yahooing some of the ppl i mentioned in the first paragraph and look at pics of their parents)
And don’t give the whole diatribe on slavery because me and my ppl could argue the same thing, but we aren’t as hung up on color as minorities. Is it safe to say that white is the standard of beauty, what every other race aspires to be?
HAHAHA! EBONYQUEEN!!!
LMAO!