Kali Uchis
11/17/2018 – Kali Uchis – 2018 Soul Train Music Awards Presented by BET – Arrivals – Orleans Arena at the Orleans Hotel & Casino – Las Vegas, NV, USA – Photo Credit: PRN / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Karly-Marina Loaiza
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 17, 1993
Ethnicity:
*father – Colombian [Spanish Castilian, Basque, other]
*mother – English, German, Welsh, Scottish, Irish
Kali Uchis is a Colombian-American singer and songwriter.
Her father, Kiolkuin Loaiza, is Colombian, and her mother is American. Loaiza is a Basque surname. She has said that she spent some of her childhood in Pereira, Colombia.
Kali’s paternal grandfather was Bernardo Loaiza Rincón (the son of Jesús María Loaiza Parra and Hermilda Rincón).
Kali’s paternal grandmother was Luz Marina Gomez Ocampo (the daughter of Moisés Gómez Arias and Belarmina Ocampo).
Kali’s maternal grandfather was Allan Lee Boteler (the son of George Zackary/Zachary Boteler and Eva Virginia Reid). Allan was born in Alexandria, Virginia. George was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Harry Wesley Boteler and Martha Anne Whitmore, whose father was German. Eva was the daughter of William George Reid and Mary E. Ball.
Kali’s maternal grandmother is Joyce Anne Burroughs (the daughter of John Mitchell Burroughs and Helen Louise Butler). Joyce was born in Alexandria, Virginia. John was the son of William Webster Burroughs and Sarah Josephine St. Clair/Sinclair. Helen was the daughter of Lew/Lewyllen Butler and Minnie Jane Feaganes.
Source: https://www.loudandquiet.com
Marriage record of Kali’s maternal grandparents, Allan Lee Boteler and Joyce Anne Burroughs – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Kali’s maternal grandfather, Allan Lee Boteler – https://www.cunninghamfuneralhome.net
Marriage record of Kali’s maternal great-grandparents, George Zackary/Zachary Boteler and Eva Virginia Reid – https://www.familysearch.org
Kali’s maternal great-grandfather, George Zackary/Zachary Boteler, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Kali’s maternal great-grandmother, Eva Virginia Reid, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Eva Virginia Reid on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Death record of Kali’s maternal great-grandmother, Eva Virginia (Reid) Boteler – https://www.familysearch.org
Marriage record of Kali’s maternal great-grandparents, John Mitchell Burroughs and Helen Louise Butler – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Kali’s maternal great-grandfather, John Mitchell Burroughs – https://thebaynet.com
the blonde hair from high school was clearly bleach. She is a natural brunette. I don’t think she passes as 100% white. I can see some native indian in her.
It’s evident is not her natural hair color.
From baby pictures and pictures of Kali as a child, you can see she has always been a natural blonde. She used to bleach her hair but now she dyes it black because she wants to pass as a mestiza Latina. You can occasionally see her blonde roots coming out nowadays.
Kali as a blonde white baby https://images.app.goo.gl/37511obePJ49zmXN8
Kali as a blonde white toddler with her aunt https://images.app.goo.gl/TC5i9vDUhRSUX4dX8
Kali as a blonde white child https://kali-uchis.fandom.com/wiki/Por_Vida
As she’s gotten older her hair has become more of a natural honey brown, but still not black like she dyes it.
Here you can see her blonde roots coming through https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYkMO2hoMU/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
Ethnicity should be updated to
father- Colombian (Castilian and Basque)
mother- English, German, Welsh, Scottish, Irish
Kali is a natural blonde with pale skin. The picture should be updated as well. Although she has claimed to be a person of color, she is of 100% white european ancestry.
Sorry for you who try to say she’s Nordic she isn’t she has the Amerindian face of the indigenous from Central-South America she’s mainly this.
She looks exactly like her white mother. She’s not “Nordic”, she’s Iberian, Bristish, and German. Kali has no “amerindian” ancestors. All her family trees show full european ancestry. Kali is a natural blonde with fair pale skin. Before she started to tan herself, dye her hair black, and get work done on her body you could tell she is without a doubt 100% white.
@ wlvr
Agree, you did not say anywhere she is “Nordic”. The user who replied you is a nutcase with dislexya and others conditions
@ wlvr
I saw a b/w high school pic of her and she was blonde indeed. Anyway I would not trust her father to be 100% European though most Latin American people in showbiz use to hail from posh families with the best public relations thus they have little to no non-Basque/Spanish ancestors.
From her paternal family trees, Kali has no Indigenous or even African ancestors. Her Colombian family is mainly Castilian and Basque, there are also a few family members born in Extremadura and Andalusia but they also have Castilian roots. Her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents are white. Kali has claimed that her Colombian grandmother is “an indigenous shaman”, her grandmother Luz Marina Gomez is a fair skinned natural blonde. That is the only direct family member Kali has claimed is indigenous and from pictures and family records, there is no proof her grandmother is anything but Spanish.
The “Nordic blonde” Uchi and her “Northern European family”
https://images.app.goo.gl/TZZ77JdP1WxhpNYk6
The “blonde” Uchis and her “Northern European” family https://images.app.goo.gl/TZZ77JdP1WxhpNYk6
Lololol
@muricansareallmutts aka urimnak and other 276 accounts
Nobody here has wrote the word “Nordic” except you. And “Northern European”.
This is dislexya. Reading disorder is tough as we see.
Being blonde actually does not mean much, you get mixed-race blond kids in favelas for example.
Her dad could be part Amerindian and I will look into his family tree
Go be racist six feet under and leave this thread alone.
1. No one anywhere but you has mentioned “Nordic” aka Scandinavian ancestry because Kali has none.
2. Kali has no indigenous/Amerindian ancestors. Both sides of her family are fully white of european descent.
3. Kali’s white grandmother she has claimed is indigenous https://www.reddit.com/r/kaliuchissnark/s/OWQb7miLoB
4. Kali’s white mother who she is the spitting image of, or at least was before she got work done https://images.app.goo.gl/oLCFNAncqNu5YJna7
Do you want to insist on it to me European?? Are you serious? The racist is you who don’t accept their real race and want whitewashing all them, racist!
Her relatives look all dark Hispanics with very strong Amerindian features here in Europe in no way they can be mistaken for as Europeans you must accept it. See the differences between these real Northern Euros I show you and them, they aren’t not even Europeans.
Her mother has the light caramel grayish skin color of the half-breed the mestizs the mixed with little European blood I see it on the pic below on left and because of her age her hair is dyed she’s the typical light mixed Hispanic pretending to be fully European.
She seems a gipsy and a light dyed Arab too who tries the same game, sigh!
Kali’s paternal ancestry is likely fully Spanish. Her father Kiolkuin Loaiza was born in Colombia to Bernardo Loaiza and Luz Marina Gomez. She is of Basque descent through her paternal grandfather and Castilian descent through her paternal grandmother. Although Kali has claimed she has “always considered [herself] a POC” she has no known Indigenous or African ancestry on her Colombian side. Her father’s family has been in Colombia since its colonization and she has ties to notable colonizers.
Kiolkuin Loaiza birth record https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66S1-BCLF?cid=fs_copy
Bernardo Loaiza and Luz Marina Gomez https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66S1-BCLG?cid=fs_copy
Jesús Maria Loaiza Parra Jesus Maria Loaiza Parra (1894–1969) • Person • Family Tree
Hermilda Rincon Hermilda Rincon Rincon (1897–1977) • Person • Family Tree
Moisés Gómez Arias Moisés Gómez Arias (1887–1958) • Person • Family Tree
Belarmina Ocampo Belarmina Ocampo (1900–1981) • Person • Family Tree
So she really exaggerated her Latina background! But her father’s name is rare, it sounds Amerindian
Loaiza is a Basque surname. Amerindian surnames are very different from Basque/Spanish surnames but are often confused as being Amerindian or even Arabic because of certain rare letters like “x” in Calixto which is of Greek-> Latin origin.
I was talking about his first name Kiolkuin
Kali’s father and all of his sibling’s names start with “Kiol”, it’s likely something his parents came up with. I haven’t seen anything about the name “Kiolkuin” or “Kiol” being indigenous. Kali’s aunt’s name which starts with “Kiol” has a very German sounding ending. Some of her uncles are “Kiol” with three letter suffixes. Who knows how their parents came up with their names. Not indigenous though
If Uchis’ father’s family has been in Colombia since the time of colonization (presumably the early to mid 1500s), the chances of her father being 100% European are close to nil.
Considering where her family is from of the Indigenous tribes that lived in those areas, most of which were completely extinct by the time Kali’s ancestors arrived in the 1600-1700s, and the fact that some even come from “higher class” Spanish blood lines, it’s safe to assume she has no Indigenous ancestry. Especially considering she has only ever mentioned her paternal grandmother is “Indigenous”, when pictures and her grandmother’s fully Spanish family tree prove otherwise, Kali is 100% white. All family trees and records show fully Castilian DNA on her dad’s maternal side and her dad’s paternal side is Basque and Castilian as well. There are no Indigenous people in her Colombian lineage.
It isn’t “safe to assume” that, especially when she has said she has indigenous ancestry. You clearly have a vested interest in her being fully white, which is fine. But nothing you have shown is concrete proof of that and it seems much more likely her father’s family are a mix of European-dominant mestizos/castizos with indigenous ancestry.
Anyone can claim anything about their ancestry. In fact, Kali tried to pass a random woman as her grandmother to push the lie that she is indigenous. I don’t have a vested interest in anything but the truth. Kali’s family is not mestizo. Everything I have shown proves all of Kali’s direct lineage is in fact fully Spanish. There is nothing wrong with that. What’s wrong is claiming to be a POC when you’re not, like Kali has. You gan like Kali all you want but take a step back and realize how weird it is that you want to defend her lie about being a POC when she’s not, when to this day she exoticizes herself in order to appear racially ambiguous when she is a natural blonde with pale skin.
Genuine question, do most Colombian mestizos whose families have been in the country for centuries have direct indigenous ancestors without Spanish names that can be easily found via census records? Mestizos, castizos and “full” whites are not even counted differently by the census so I don’t know how you’d know the racial makeup of her paternal grandparents/great-grandparents if they are not recent immigrants. Unless you have traced all of her paternal family members directly back to Europe, I think it seems unlikely that her father’s family are purely European especially based on how he looks.
To answer your first question, from what I’ve seen on records and family trees of mestizos/castizos in other parts of Latin America, race is included on census records. From what I’ve read of Colombian records that is the same. As for “Indigenous names” it’s not that common to see them on records especially from a time period where Indigenous peoples were being wiped out. In the areas where Kali’s ancestors colonized, not only were Spanish colonizers not intermixing, they were also forcing Spanish customs/culture on the Indigenous peoples. Take the Philippines for example, many Filipinos have Spanish surnames and although they claim to have Spanish blood, most have little to no Spanish blood. Contrary to popular belief, not everywhere Spaniards colonized did they intermix. That being said, yes from what I have read of her father’s family tree all of his family is Spanish from the Castile and Basque regions. I have no images of her paternal grandfather but his roots are Spanish, and her paternal grandmother looks unambiguously white. Her dad’s siblings are all white blondes. Her dad I do know has dark hair and is tan, but a lot of blondes get darker hair as they age and he could’ve gotten his tan from his jobs in the Army and construction as Kali has mentioned. Many Spaniards can be tan and have dark hair, as you can see on this website. Her dad has very typical Basque features. Also important to note, many of the Indigenous tribes that resided where Kali’s family has lived in Colombia were already extinct by the time her family arrived.
Wow her mom’s side is white white