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
maybe she has white blood, but she´s look more like a guineean girl (guinee is in west africa) than a white girl. In the word african american, the key word is african: i feel like most AAs deny the fact that they came from africa. Personally im french because i live in france and i speak french everyday, but my parents are both cameroonian, so im african, even if im light skinned, im african and REALLY proud. The AAs who think that a light skinned black person is automatically mixed should go at least once to an african country (not in northern africa, because most of people who live there is arabic) to see what do the africans like: you can see people look like ciara, beyoncé meagan good shar jackson etc … who are NOT mixed.
Ciara is not pure black. She doesn’t look pure black. She even have caramel skin. I’m sick and tired of people wanting us multigenerational mixed race African-Americans to claim to be pure blacks. We aren’t pure black. We are multigenerationally mixed race. Mixed or multiracial person is a person with mixed-race ancestry. Pure or monoracial person is person with pure race ancestry. GET OVER IT, FOLKS! WE AREN’T PURE BLACKS!
And by the way…Renaldo unlike the rest of you knws what she is talking abt…NO AFRICAN AMERICAN SHOUD CLAIM TO BE A 100% BLACK. Most African American have a whole lot of mixes from past generations and thats why they look so different from black ppl from Africa. Ciara is pretty…but she is mixed…some women in Africa are pretty even though they are not mixed…so really you don’t have to be mixed to be good looking…come to South Africa one day if u get the chance! you will c pretty women who are a 100% black.
whoever thinks that black ppl can only be good looking if they are mixed really needs to go and educate themselves…if you are black and think that way…thats even worse! I think you are still opressed in your mind…u need to educate yourself and liberate your mind coz honestly it’s still very much opressed and, only education can set it free…it’s true what they say u know…KNOWLEDGE REALLY IS POWER!
I agree that youdont have to be mixed with something to be buetiful.