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.

Sources: http://clutchmagonline.com
https://lamag.com