Dua Lipa
Lipa in 2016, photo by Prphotos
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 22 August, 1995
Ethnicity: Albanian, as well as Bosniak
Dua Lipa is a British singer, songwriter, and model. She was born in Westminster, London, England. Her parents, Anesa (Rexha) and Dukagjin Lipa, are Albanian, originally from Kosovo. Her family is Muslim. Her father spent two months in besieged Sarajevo during the region’s 1990s civil war.
Her parents settled in an Albanian refugee community in Camden, London. For a number of years as a teenager, Dua also lived in Pristina, Kosovo. At sixteen, Dua returned to London to follow her musical career. Her father was lead vocalist in a Kosovar rock band named Oda.
Dua’s paternal grandfather was historian Seit Lipa. He was head of the Bosnian Institute of History.
Dua’s maternal grandparents are possibly named Iljaz Rexha and Zinka.
Sources: http://www.nylon.com
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Marriage record of Dua’s parents – https://familysearch.org
I thought she was either Italian or Slovene/Croatian at first. Possibly Romanian as well.
Only the Southern Italians of ancient Albanian and Spaniard roots are like her looks Spaniard too cause Spaniards have Slavic roots like the famous Arab root, I live in Italy and I can say it, you don’t know that the Italians you “know” are not Italians for real, are you Hispanic right you’re so obsessed to us and who believe to be white even if you’re not.
Her maternal grandparents are possibly named Iljaz Rexha and Zinka.
She’s Albanian