J Balvin
J Balvin – 2017 MTV Movie and TV Awards – Photo Credit: PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: José Álvaro Osorio Balvín
Place of Birth: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Date of Birth: 7 May, 1985
Ethnicity: Colombian [Spanish, some African, possibly other]
J Balvin is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is known as the “Prince of Reggaeton”/”Príncipe del Reguetón.”
He is the son of Alba Mery Vásquez and Álvaro Osorio, who was an economist and business owner. He moved to the U.S. at around seventeen, living in Oklahoma on a student exchange and then New York City. J Balvin has a son with his partner, Argentinian model, actress, television host, and beauty pageant contestant Valentina Ferrer.
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He has a son with Argentinian model and beauty queen Valentina Ferrer
He is 1/4 African. He says he has a black grandfather. I’m not sure about his other grandparents
https://m.facebook.com/JBalvinOficial/photos/afro-balvin-herencia-de-mi-abuelo-el-negro-octavio-/10156916422425036/
Um okay? True. He has a black grandparent though, it’s not like he found out he’s 2% sub Saharan African on an ancestry test.
He’s still mostly European, just like most Latinos in the Caribbean Sea area, you’re obviously gonna get a small percentage of African and indigenous on DNA. So he’s still Hispanic…
Still Colombian*
@Mixxed Kid
You sound dumb. Hispanic, African and Latino are all different things. You can be black and Hispanic and/or Latino. No one said he isn’t mostly European. You have the mental capacity of a 5 year old. Damn.
@izzybizzy
His father looks 100% European and his mother likely has some non Euro admixture but she is no way half Afro-Colombian.
@Andrew
So? He literally said himself his grandfather is Black African. Go and tell him he’s lying about his heritage. Look at Rose Bertram. She’s half black but she looks Eastern European.
“Everyone in America is half African????”