Kat Graham
Graham in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham
Place of Birth: Geneva, Switzerland
Date of Birth: 5 September, 1989
Ethnicity:
*Americo-Liberian (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Kat Graham, also credited as Katerina Graham, is an American actress, singer, dancer, and model. She is famous for appearing on will.i.am’s track I Got It From My Mama. She is known as Toro Gato in her music career.
She was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and grew up in California, U.S. Kat’s father, Joseph Hartford Graham, is Americo-Liberian. Her mother, Natasha, is Jewish, from a family that emigrated from Poland and Russia. Kat was raised in her mother’s faith, and attended Hebrew School. She can speak Hebrew.
Americo-Liberians have Liberian ethnicity and African-American ancestry. Americo-Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African-Americans, who called themselves Americo-Liberians, who immigrated in the 1800s to become the founders of Liberia.
Kat is married to her business partner Bryant Wood.
Kat’s paternal grandfather was Joseph Graham, a U.N. Ambassador, serving for 40 years in the Netherlands, Sweden, Romania, and Kenya.
Kat’s maternal grandmother was a Holocaust survivor.
To Adriana
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Americo-Liberians are a Liberian ethnicity of African American descent. The sister ethnic group of Americo Liberians are the Sierra Leone Creole people who are of African American, West Indian, and liberated African descent.[1] Americo Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African-Americans (who called themselves Americo Liberians) who immigrated in the 1800s to become founders of Liberia and other colonies along the coast in places that would become Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone.[1] Later, these African Americans integrated 5,000 liberated Africans called Congos (descendents of freed slaves from the Congo Basins who never made it to the Americas) and 346 Barbadian immigrants into the hegemony.[2] Like the Creoles of Freetown, Americos rarely intermarried with Natives. For 133 years after independence, the Republic of Liberia was a one-party state ruled by the Americo-Liberian dominated True Whig Party.[3]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americo-Liberian
Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Katerina is the daughter of a Americo-Liberian father, Joseph Graham, and a Russian Jewish mother, Natasha.[1] Graham attended Hebrew school and speaks English, Spanish, French, and some Portuguese and Hebrew.[7] She has been exposed to different cultures and societies from an early age. She believes this is what has greatly influenced her artistically and personally and fosters her intense motivation to be a success. Katerina’s father was a music executive and also the godfather of two of Quincy Jones’s children.[citation needed] Her grandfather was a UN Ambassador from Liberia to Switzerland.[8] Katerina was born in Geneva while her father was working as a journalist for the UN. She was raised in Los Angeles, California.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katerina_Graham
It should be Americo-Liberian