Halsey

Halsey at the MTV Movie And TV Awards held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, USA on June 16, 2018. Photo by Starfrenzy/bigstock.com

Birth Name: Ashley Nicolette Frangipane

Place of Birth: Edison, New Jersey, U.S.

Date of Birth: September 29, 1994

Ethnicity:
*father – African-American, small amount of Irish
*mother – one half Italian, one quarter Hungarian, German, Irish

Halsey is an American singer, songwriter, activist, and actress. She is also known by her given name Ashley Frangipane.

Halsey is the daughter of Nicole, an EMT, and Chris Frangipane, who manages a car dealership. She is biracial. Her mother’s ancestry includes one half Italian, one quarter Hungarian, and German and Irish. A picture of Halsey with her maternal grandmother can be seen here. A picture of Halsey’s parents can be seen here. Halsey has a son with her former partner, Turkish-American screenwriter Alev Aydin.

Halsey has stated:

my dad is black and a little Irish and my mom is Italian and Hungarian!

She has also said that a DNA test showed her genetic ancestry to include “Italian, Turkish, Nigerian, Senegalese, and British/Irish. lots of big surprises there.”

Halsey’s maternal grandfather is Richard Jacobs (the son of Steve Jacobs/Jacob and Lorraine Alice Christoff/Cristoff). Steve was the son of Hungarian parents, Frank Joseph Jakab/Jacob, from Gersekarát, Vas, and Maria/Mary Takacs, from Olaszfa, Vas. Lorraine was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Emil Gustave Christoff/Christoffel/Cristoff and Lucinda Hickey. Emil was the son of German parents, Fredrich/Frederick C. Christoffel and Emilia/Amelia O. Thieme.

Halsey’s maternal grandmother is Annette Canace (the daughter of Vito Canace and Josephine Fortunata Minervino). Annette is of Italian descent, with roots in Calabria and Campania. Vito was born in New Jersey, the son of Dominick/Domenico Canace, who was born in Avellino, Campania, and of Maria Canace. Josephine was the daughter of Charles Minervino and Antoinette Barras.

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Halsey in 2015, photo by Prphotos

Sources: Death record of Halsey’s maternal great-grandmother, Lorraine Alice (Christoff/Cristoff) Jacobs – https://www.familysearch.org

Halsey’s maternal great-great-grandfather, Emil Gustave Christoff/Christoffel/Cristoff, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org

104 Responses

  1. coco says:

    So she took a DNA test. She didn’t post the percentages of anything but specified some of the ethnicities she got…

    https://twitter.com/halsey/status/1271524914063790080?s=21

    https://twitter.com/halsey/status/1271525935720706048?s=21

    • beatrizxx says:

      she probably doesn’t want to show her whole result, because she must be less black than she thought. She was telling everyone that she felt like a black woman. I bet she only 20% black and her father itself looks biracial

      • coco says:

        Exactly. Cause if she was as black as she thought she was or even around it, she definitely would’ve been quick to show her results lmao idk why she’d think she’d get 50% anyway, I have biracial friends that have taken DNA tests & the afro featured darker ones are not even 50% black. They’re all in the 30s-40s % range & the whitest one is in the 20s % range. Which isn’t shocking.

      • midori29 says:

        What does it matter? You sound racist. Halseys dad is African American which equals black. Therefore Halsey is half black period. Arguing percentage is a futile waste of time because her so called white Italian mom likely has West African dna as she is Italian and many Italian people have African ancestry.

        • passingtime85 says:

          Defining and documenting race and ethnicity is the point this website, they didn’t sound racist as in, they did not or were not presenting any group as superior or inferior. Unless pointing out her omission of her full results seems antagonistic to you or something.

          It matters probably because bi-racial people get over looked and lumped in with one group or another, and in the US “black” supercedes all other input, which is inaccurate and insulting to people that want to claim multiple heritages or be designated somewhere in between, which is more accurate than the one drop rule, which actually only took effect and effected legal status if you were one eighth or more of African descent in the US.

          Also even West Africans, overall, have some mideast and even Neanderthal heritage in them because of the constant migration and DNA swapping over the past 20,000 years. Very few, if any, populations are completely “pure”, without input from surrounding populations.

          I’ll say this, it’s weird when people only show part of their admixture results. It seems like they want to hide or conceal results they don’t particularly like.

        • andrew says:

          @midori

          You are a known Afrocentric troll from Guyana of multiracial background (you said to even have reddish hairy) who fancies New World people of color as “black” but you got upset when in Paris you dealt with proper Sub-Sarahan African people.

  2. andrew says:

    It should be added “likely Italian” on her father’s side.

  3. andrew says:

    So what’s goin’ on here?

    • comrade says:

      Her dad is most likely adopted. Not sure though as Halsey never mentioned it. We’ll just have to wait and see if she ever talks about it.

      James Frangipane and Theresa married in 1967 (both then aged 18) and had Chris (their first child?) in 1973 six years later. They had another child, Matt Frangipane, in 1984 but Matt is white and Chris is mixed race/black. Is Matt adopted or is Chris adopted or are they both adopted? Both Chris and Matt have the surname Frangipane and (from what I know) there’s no divorce record of James Frangipane and Theresa Thorley.

      • andrew says:

        Well, waiting for an update on Halsey’s profile soon.

      • coco says:

        I’ve been a listener of Halsey for years so I’ve also followed her fanpages… Back in 2015 she actually said in a dm to one of her fanpages that her dad was adopted. It came up cause the fanpage asked why she her dad had 2 white parents. The screenshot was posted & she liked it at the time. I’ll try to find it again.

  4. andrew says:

    The text says maternal grandmother twice atm.

    Question: if her father has African-American ancestry, why does he have an Italian surname? Weird.

  5. Multiethnicchick says:

    Americans are so ignorant. If a mixed race man has a child with a white woman, they create kids that look like Halsey of Rashida Jones. As in mostly white women. Same with Eartha Kitt’s daughter. If you people would recognize mixed race people there would be no “uh duh, why does she look white”. Because she mostly is white!

    • SMHD says:

      I agree. People don’t really pay attention to genetics. It can skip generations and the color combos and textures with hair, eyes, skin etc can be a mixed bag if there’s mixed ancestry, but more times than not, if you have a mixed black and white person that gets with a White person, their kids will be majority white and most of the time take on euro features. Not always, but most of the time. Look at Drake’s kid for example or any other one the same as him. Not only white passing, but very white. Same as if a mixed race black and White person gets with a black person. Kids will be mostly black and a lot of the time takes on black features. NOT ALWAYS, but tends to lean that way. Genetics is a cool thing, and anything can happen, but people should not be surprised at all the outcomes.

      • coco says:

        Very true & eloquently said. Genetic can be like dice sometimes but 9/10 it’s not that hard to predict, except for when throwback genes & mutations happen.

    • coco says:

      I’m American but I agree with you. Americans need to let the ODR (which was a racist Jim Crow law based on white supremacy) go away. In Latin America, the UK, even Africa & many other countries, there is/has never been a ODR. In most countries mixed people can be mixed without automatically being put in the black box. I see more Rachel Dolezals in the future infiltrating blackness in America.

      • Akwaba says:

        I disagree, in homogeneous countries black/white mixed people are considered black and most people don’t make the difference between a mixed person and a 100% african person. But people like Halsey will never be considered black.

        • coco says:

          Nothing to disagree with. It’s true. In many other countries mixed people are considered mixed race not automatically black. I’ve traveled a lot & met a lot of different nationalities of people. Particularly in the places I mentioned. In South Africa theyre usally called “colored”, in the Uk “mixed race” in Latin America “mulatto” (if they’re black/white). They’re are also different kinds of mixed people, not just black & white. Mestizos are white & indigenous in Latin America. Half asians also exist.

        • Multiethnicchick says:

          In most countries, mixed people are mixed. Americans are just backwards in everything. Metrics system, driving and understabding race which they ironically obsess over

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