Jordin Sparks
Sparks in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Jordin Brianna Sparks
Place of Birth: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 22, 1989
Ethnicity:
*father – African-American
*mother – German, English, Scottish, Norwegian
Jordin Sparks is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She won the sixth season of the show American Idol (in 2007). See other American Idol winners here.
Jordin is the daughter of Jodi (Weidmann) and NFL player Phillippi Sparks. Her father is African-American. Her mother, who is white, has German, English, Scottish, and Norwegian ancestry.
Jordin is married to fitness model Dana Isaiah Thomas, with whom she has a son.
Jordin’s paternal grandmother is Guinetta Marie Sparks/Moss (the daughter of Mildred Otheree Climmons/Sparks). Mildred was the daughter of Edna P. Climmons. Edna re-married to Royal/Roy Sparks.
Jordin’s maternal grandfather is Jim Wiedmann (the son of Otto Wiedmann and Leah Gladys Krause). Otto was born in North Dakota, the son of Phillip/Philip Wiedmann and Dorothea/Dorothy Müller/Mueller, who were ethnic Germans from Russia. Leah was also born in North Dakota, the daughter of Jacob Krause and Frieda Bender, who were also from ethnic German families from Russia, from Odessa.
Jordin’s maternal grandmother is Pamela Rutherford (the daughter of James Marvin Rutherford and Gladys I. Gilleshammer). James had English, Scottish, and German ancestry, and was the son of John Nichol Rutherford and Johannah/Hannah Antonette Dahl. Gladys was of Norwegian descent, the daughter of Peter Gilleshammer and May Agnes C. Olsen.
Sources: Genealogy of Jordin Sparks – https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Jordin’s paternal great-grandmother, Mildred Otheree Climmons/Sparks LaVow – https://www.findagrave.com
Jordin’s paternal great-great-grandmother, Edna P. Climmons, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Jordin’s paternal great-great-grandmother, Edna P. (Climmons) Sparks Heath – https://www.newspapers.com
She is a African American Euromutt or Mulatto Euromutt I’m a Asian Euromutt or Eurasian mutt the more mixed you are the better looking you are.
whoever said she looks fully black is stupid af!!! she obviously looks mixed. she has good hair and her features are mixed. she looks dominican actually.
Well, her maternal grandmother is half Norwegian, so that makes Jordin 1/8th Norwegian :)
Or 12,5% if you want.
you can be mixed and be really dark
@Daisuke
(you can be mixed and be really dark)
Very true
amen! agreeee
Thats me, I am mixed and dark skinned with wavy curly hair. Mixed with Native Indian,Portuguese, and Indian. My brother is even darker than me,he is about one shade lighter than Wesley Snipes.
amen!
Mixed girls are always gorgeous.
Its just coz u didnt see ugly mixed girls))
She looks full African to me.
I’ve seen Africans in Africa, pure blooded, that look like her. You don’t have to look like Whoopi to not be regarded as ‘mixed’.
@theropod
(You don’t have to look like Whoopi to not be regarded as ‘mixed’.)
I know you’re using her just as an example,but i know black people who are the same color and phenotype,who are half white.
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if you think she looks African you obviously don’t know what an African looks like, an unmixed black person is really dark
Not all subsaharan africans are “really” dark. Some tribes are quite light skinned. This is particularly evident if you go further south towards south Africa.
Capoid ppl are not related to West Africans
Not true gosh some of you people are ignorant
You are wrong about that because my grandmother is biracial and can pass your white but I am way darker than she is. Kelly Rowland complexion. What you said was very ignorant because I have two friends from Nigeria who are pure African who are nit dark at all. You need to travel more.
Bullshit. African girls who look like that IN Africa are mixed. There are a lot of mixed people in sub saharan Africa too. I would KNOW since I’m one.
Oh please, where in Africa are there black africans that look like Jordan sparks without admixture. If she went to Africa, she would be colored
Cameroon.
many mixed girls look like her… you don’t need more proves if her parents are one black and other white… i don’t see and understand why people deny mixed race… its ridiculous. she is mixed and many mixed people look like her.
You’re retarded. Jordin looks mixed.
many mixed girls look like her… you don’t need more proves if her parents are one black and other white… i don’t see and understand why people deny mixed race… its ridiculous. she is mixed and many mixed people look like her.
theres many african mixed darskinned girls, because not all africans are pure black…. and she looks mixed.
She’s not “mixed”. There’s actually no such thing. If she believes in the Bible, the identity of the person (i.e. their heritage) goes by the what the father is. That means she’s a so-called “black” person. Her nationality is a Judite.
#IUIC
Their is such thing as mixed. Im mixed Not everyone is just one race & it doesn’t say that in the bible
Actually there is no biological basis for race. I too a course from the counseling department called multi Cultural Gender Issues and we watch a video called the Genome project. They did an experiment where they swiped all he students mouth and looked at thier gene sequence. This black female and white male found out that they had the same gene sequences. These were re two people who thought that they would have less in common with each other genetic wise. There is legitimate research that race does not exist biologically and it is something that we humans made up. Out hair, skin, and eye color our only a small portion of our genes.
Actually everyone is one race remember we’re all humans but we just come from different parts of the world with different languages, heritage, and cultures but I get what you’re saying.
I’m Mixed too
not always trust me plus she is averaging
average looking
She’s far from average. She’s beautiful. Most mixed people are though so….
Well I mean of course there are some ugly ass mixed people, but MOST of them are above average and hot.
She defiantly looks Mixed Most Mulattos look either Black or Mixed it’s very rare for Mulattos too look White I’m mixed too Eurasian but i look White instead of Mixed and Asian Mixed race people are better looking than Blacks Asians and Whites.