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
it’s not that black people are ashamed of mostly where they came from it’s that they need to accept all of them . If someone asks me what race am i , i would say black . When people say their mixed all they want to do is accept all of who they are . Most african americans do have indian in them my great grandmother on my mom’s side was part cherokee indian she looked just like an indian and my family have some old pics from the early 60’s to prove that and my gram said she was kind of like a gypsy. MY grandpa on my mom’s side , his mom was creole’ and his dad was irish/black . But it really doesn’t matter anyways because i am mostly black , but i do like to accept all of me and i do not want to reject any of my ancestors , if all of my mixed ancestors were here and somebody asked me what race was i , they wouldn’t want me to just say black they would want me to say black/irish/french/indian .
to fuzzybear: its the end of my comment, i’ve just forgotten to mention my name lol. Im just reacting to the previous comments
to ethnic:hello to you too, thank you very much, this website is so amazin’ ! Sorry for my grammar, in france we’re dummies in english lol
I needed to react to all this comments because in france africans don´t think like AAs do , certainly because we havent got the same history.
drexxx hello to you in France, thanks for the comment.
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To Anonymous,
Who’s been doing that?
so african americans stop saying that you´re SO different from africans because despite of the several centuries of slavery, you guys look just like africans !!! And its like that because you ARE africans more than anything !!