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
Scroll down links and see Ciara when she was younger before the makeup, fake hair weaves,skin lightener and fame. Before her nose job. Screams regular everday black girl off the street. Mank black female celebrities use skin bleach, fake hair and nose jobs.
http://straightfromthea.com/2010/07/19/when-ciara-was-17/
She looks exactly the same with the exception of the weave. She looks mixed race.
I dont see mixed at all. I dont know where you live or your race but she looks like a regular kinky haired average black woman. There are millions of 100 percent Nigeria. AFRICAN women who look just like her. I even posted links. To some people every pretty black woman looks mixed. Also what do you consider mixed? This woman Ciara is not light skinned and or she does not look like she has a white parent or a parent of another race. Both of her parents are black people. What more do you need? Wow people are crazy.
She does not look mixed. Both her parents are black. She favors her mother.
I honestly do not understand the comments here I think most people are brainwashed and conditioned to make every single attractive black woman mixed, as if being just black is considered ugly. This woman looks like a regular , run of the mill, American black woman to me .
Lol. Black people gets so pissed when someday says a black person looks mixed. And ignorant whites are still mixing with them smh.
I wouldn’t want to have mulatto kids because they end up confused and when they have kids with a black person, their kids look mixed and deny their white side.
Yes many whites do not want to admitt they have black admixture too. And alot of whites are always finding and interjecting themselves in blacks who have two proven black parents. They cannot see a pretty or handsome looking black person without putting themselves in “oh she or he must be part white” of course thats offensive to black people.
She def had some surgery done if you look it up. She could pass as South Indian, Dominican smth along those lines
No she cannot be South Indian I do not see that at all, I grew up with many Indians. And the hair is fake.
She definitely has a lot of european ancestry. Like me… not sure about her but my grandfather was Scottish and Navajo native american. Grandma was black and white. Mom African-American. So I being tri-racial have a lot of european heritage and I’m about her complexion with thick wavy hair.
I definitely do not see alot of European, I see barely any European. At the highest 10 or 15 percent . She looks like a regular black woman to me. I dont get this habit of overmixing every attractive black woman. Her hair is fake.