Maluma
Maluma in 2015, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Juan Luis Londoño Arias
Place of Birth: Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Date of Birth: 28 January, 1994
Ethnicity: Colombian
Maluma is a Colombian reggaeton singer and songwriter. He is the son of Luis Alfonso Londoño Zapata and Marlli Elizabeth Arias Giraldo.
A picture of Maluma’s mother and maternal grandparents can be seen here. A picture of Maluma’s mother and maternal grandmother can be seen here.
Maluma’s paternal grandparents are named Jairo Londoño and Berenice Zapata.
Maluma’s maternal grandparents are named Pedro Arias and Rubiela Giraldo.
Where does his African ancestry come from?
His mother looks mixed European and Subsaharan African with a dominant European heritage like 80% European
mother/grandmother: https://www.instagram.com/p/BlEcTVQhGv8/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Biu8yZrhRF7/
his mother’s parents’ surnames are Arias and Giraldo: the first one is Spanish, while the second exists both is Spain and Italy (Veneto). Venetians heavily emigrated to South America (mostly in Brazil), and given his maternal grandma has light features, it makes me think she has Venetian ancestry.
So you’re saying he’s Italian Brazilian too?
And even if his grandma has ‘light features’. She can still be just Spanish
No, I just said Giraldo surname can be either Spanish or Italian (Venetian). According to the Italian embassy in Bogotà, about two millions of Colombians have some Italian ancestry, and Veneto is indeed the first region for number of Italian immigrants to Colombia. Yes, Spaniards sometimes can have light features but they are more common in Venetians.
From the pics you linked, they look Spanish to me. Northern Spaniards look more Celtic influenced with light features while Southern Spaniards look more darker and more closer to Morocco.
*They look Spanish with Indigenous mixed. And yeah, there’s a few Italians (both Venetian and Southern Italian) in South America.. Not just Italians & Spanish are in South America There’s also a few Polish, German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, even Jewish ancestry as well in South America as well.
No, there are a lot of Italians in Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Brazil, and to a lesser extent in Venezuela, Chile and Perù. Portuguese is the largest ethnic contribution to Brazilian genome. The other nationalities you mentioned are marginal in South America, except Germans in Southern Brazil
You basically repeated what I said. Like I said, there’s many other different ethnicities in South America as well besides Italian and Spanish. There’s even Africans, Middle Eastern, Asian, etc. It’s a melting pot of other cultures.
But yeah, there’s a lot of recent Italians from mostly in Argentina though. But there’s other different ethnicites too all throughout South America.
However the lighter pigmented people in Spain are those from Basque Country, Aragon and Catalonia. The “Celtic” influence in Galicians and Asturians is a myth.
About Southern Spaniards, they are far-looking from Moroccans (who are part SSA) as a group but you can find sometimes an overlap in individuals.
Yes, basically those regions you mentioned are in North of Spain which are more lighter than those from Southern Spain. I’m not saying every single Southern Spanaird has African ancestry but there are some that actually do have North African (which can be Morocco too).
Spaniard from Galicia DNA Results (with some North African ancestry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrWNgFUxSaE
Moroccan girl’s DNA results(with Spanish/Portuguese ancestry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52poF8rJatc
And a lot of the Mediterranean countries are diverse compared to other European countries. Some can look as white as British and Irish and some are more tan.
Majority of Latin Americans are mixed race so its possible.However genotype does not equate phenotype
Luis’ middle name is Fernando while correction for Maluma’s mother: her first name is Marlli, and her maternal family name is Giraldo.
I have picture of Maluma’s mother and maternal grandparents here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZCjZWXBm4F/?taken-by=marlli_arias
Maluma’s YouTube documentary is out. Correct Luis’ middle name to Alfonso.
Luis’ maternal family name is Zapata.
Maluma’s paternal grandparents are Jairo Londoño and Berenice Zapata.
Maluma’s maternal grandparents are Pedro Arias and Rubiela Giraldo.