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
You can tell she mixed cuz she has long hair(not her weave).
uh, not all black people haved to be ‘mixed’ to have long hair in case you didn’t know i just informed u :)
Jesus Christ. Black people can have long hair without being mixed. What do you think a large afro is? Do you actually believe Black folks are genetically incapable of growing hair that is long?
That is weave idiot look it up. You no nothing about blacks or weave for that matter
AMEN AMEN
She is very beautiful and sexy.
She’s Creole, German and Irish. NOT just “black” Everybody knows this. The girl is beautiful.
Shut ur c**t, shes fully black…
& whats wrong with being just ‘black’? Ciara is African-American, so stfd.
you must be happy to label her as other ethnicities besides black in order to call her beautiful huh? smh at some people
Yea she is defenitly mixed, I herd she was part Irish too! Must be where she gets her looks from!
hahahahaha lets me just say that some plp cant read it says it right thr that shes african-american am african and am light nd have good hair so wat ever ur trying to say l would suggest that u shut ur asss up coz u know nuthing abt black plp nd thr history.
yea she is defenitly part white, I’d say by looking at her that she is 70% caucasian and 30 % black.
70% caucasian?! Both of Ciara’s parents are unmistakeably Black.
GIVE IT UP PEOPLE. Stop claiming every black female celebrity is mixed.
Of course, because Ciara totally looks Irish.
no she is not creole german and irish
SHE NEVER STATED THAT
SHE ALWAYS SAYS BLACK
IF I ASK CIARA
WHAT RACE ARE YOU
SHE WOULD SAY BLACK
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NOW SHUT UP
She did say she was.But shes not
But some(ALOT)of African Americans or Blacks always feel they need add some type of White to them.I mean seriously
my sons is african, cuban, greek,white and the husband is cuban ,white i’m greek,african . my mother is greek and my dad is african.
so freakn what azzhole
I do thinj if there was a day ever happend ciara said she iz not blaaak…n who tha hell she iz..wetha iz mxd or wot her skin shows how black race dominate her…n tha nem it self(ciara)….iz irish one means BLACK!!LOL HER PARENTS WERE not crayz to kol her by that nem..black princess haris.
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