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
why do black people make such a big deal on how whites treat them diff today,,?????? Blacks treat Whites diff too, we are all to blame, but if the people in the “ghetto” wanna stop being made fun of stop dressing like morons…
And I say the same thing to those whites that live in trailer parks
I’ve noticed on this site that white people are listed as always having mulitple ethnicities (sometimes without even any proof) but as far as “black” celebrities when they are clearly mixed, such as Ciara and Keri Hilson are only labled as “African American” Maybe black people don’t look into their geneologys as much? IDK but it comes across really racist.
She is lightskin african american, that has probably never met one of her ancestors because it was probably 100’s of years ago when it happened- this is the case for about 95% of African Americans even the dark ones they have a distant white relative who they have never met- they are still African American- so why would she put another race-when she doesnt know what that other race is. I had this discussion with some of my lightskin friends with light color hair and eyes- they said they got to see this sight because it is bogus! Since when have light skin blacks not been African American? If you come to my neighborhood you will see so many lightskin blacks who have nothing but lightskin people in their family and they can not point out not one white person in their family. This is the case for so many lightskin people they have always been black and will continue to claim to be black what is so hard to realize about this. Now someone like Alicia Keys is mixed! She has one white parent and one black parent- that is a mixed person!
I meant probably never met one of her white ancestors!
Most black people haven’t met the white ancestors that contributed to their color. My nana is light skinned, but all of the white in her came from our family’s slave owners and maybe a droplet of native american. My cousin came out light skinned with two dark parents and she looks a lot like my nana. My nana’s mom was light too. But we’re big on geneology. We know the name of the family that owned ours and where they lived and moved there from and everything.
James!
Dude you can’t be from the states. African Americans often do not know what their genealogy is b/c their ancestors were captives and not immigrants. We know that there is some admixture, but we often do not know with what. Many of our ancestors were victims of rape by their Masters. How can you acknowledge something that you do not know? My mother has green eyes and light skin. Her mother and her father are of beautiful chocolate complexion. She looks identical to both of them, so we know that they are her biological parents. This is the story of almost every African American. We know there is something there, but what? Many act as if slavery was centuries ago( especially younger multiracial kids). They are the same generation who believe that computers always existed, or that cave men had cells phones, or better yet that the civil rights movement was a best sellers by John Grisham.
HOLY SHIT? African American? I would have NEVER known that by looking at her…
lol
she was lucky to work with justin timberlake.
@Anonymous
Why you word your phrases like you guys? And y’all? What that suppose to mean? Are you upset because some ppl wanna be ignorant in the world. Don’t prove yourself to be more ignorant than them. Anyways who cares what anyone is. If everyone was mixed together people would find a way to fight and argue about that. This site was made for ppl to kno what they favorite stars ethnicity is… which is a bad idea considering people wanna show the world how ignorant they really are. Who gives a damn what anyone is, we all people. Every race/ethnicty is beautiful.
first of all princess aint that much of a bad middle name
its better then agnes dont yall agry
oh and before yall start talking bout my name its made up like the
rest of yall names so yah dont talk about mines pleazee