Mel B
Mel B in 2010, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Melanie Janine Brown
Place of Birth: Harehills, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 29 May, 1975
Ethnicity:
*father – African-Nevisian
*mother – English, possibly Welsh
Mel B, or Scary Spice, is a British musician, television personality, actress, dancer, and model. She is a member of girl group Spice Girls, along with Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Melanie C, and Geri Halliwell. She is also known as Melanie B, Melanie Brown, Mel G, Melanie G, and Melanie Gulzar.
Her father, Martin Brown, who is black, is from Saint Kitts and Nevis. Her mother, Andrea Dixon, who is white, is English. She is a maternal first cousin of actor and director Christian Cooke. A picture of Mel, with her father and ex-husband, Stephen Belafonte can be seen here. A picture of Mel and her mother can be seen here.
Mel has three children: a daughter with her former husband, Dutch dancer Jimmy Gulzar; a daughter with American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy; and a daughter with her former husband, film producer Stephen Belafonte. Mel has extended family in Wales.
One of Mel’s paternal great-grandmothers was named Celian Martin Powell.
Mel’s maternal grandfather is named Stanley Dixon.
Mel’s maternal grandmother is named Eileen Mary English.
But she’s black?
she is black and white
Her paternal great-grandmother was Celian Martin Powell. https://okmagazine.com/photos/mel-b-great-grandmother-dies-age-107/
I came here to confirm,if she was biracial and surprise surprise, she is.Her Halle,thandiwe,obama and Jordan Peele should start a club for black passing biracial that look 100% mono racially black.I don’t care if that’s racist but I just wish Black passing biracial looked like horn Africans(have the skin tone of a black but features of a white).I hate genetics for being so unpredictable and disappointing honestly.
Honestly, take your racist bulls–t elsehwere. This is all you have done since you’ve been here. You are adding nothing of any value to these discussions.
@Jacklyn 224
They’re not “black passing biracial” at all. It’s just a media bias towards light-skinned African-Americans to fool the audience. Only Jordan Peele among the oned you’ve mentioned may have solid West African features, but put him next to a real Sub-Sarahan African folks and see how the difference is huge:
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5c0ecb7ba844290d8a6857e1/master/w_768,c_limit/GettyImages-903152286.jpg
https://s.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/jordan-peele-danie-kaluuya-gty-ml-180301_16x9_992.jpg
The large bulk of Sub-Sarahan people have black skin in the proper meaning of the term, not BROWN. My mother once saw Will Smith on Tv and she called him “mulatto actor”. The African immigrants in Europe are really black not like the watered down New Worlders who claim to be black, you get it?
You are so stupid… And she look mixed and halle and thandiwe look too..
Mel B looks plain old African American black or Ethiopian, Eritrean black East African. If she lived in America no one would immediately think she was biracial at all.
I agree with you. She can pass for African-American. Like most biracial British entertainer or sportspeople. The likes of Lewis Hamilton, Ashley Cole, Courtney Lawes, Anthony Watson and many others
She dont look black maybe only in her skin color and she tans alot if u see her in her early spice girls days u can see she is bi racial and she look in the face even more white than black and she have bi racial curls.
Her facial features and hair texture clearly distinguish her as biracial. And Ethiopians and Eritreans are mixed. You can’t compare them to black Americans at all
Wtf u talking about she clearly look biracial:
young: https://imgbox.com/Oh220wU6
https://imgbox.com/BJuh0xwP
as a teenager modeling and won beauty pageant: https://imgbox.com/Ok5kLNGW https://imgbox.com/YVrzAF0D
in Africa with full african people: https://imgbox.com/wrrgpBKB
https://imgbox.com/RFLKR7ax
She looks Indian to me. Very beautiful.
you can include a picture of Mel with husband Stephen Belafonte (who’s said to not be related to Harry Belafonte) and father Martin Brown: http://www3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Melanie+Brown+Victoria+Secret+Fashion+Show+rEAm3znEazMl.jpg
that was not directed to “Ardor”
@Neiltennant
Actually Native Americans did vary in the past, from what you grew up seeing on t.v. to very dark brown like Mel B. Then you had the mixed-bloods, that took more after their African ancestry. Sometime so dark in appearance, that they were mistaken for runaway slaves(and hanged ). Slave narratives or laws often talked about mestizos(which meant Black Indian) in the English colonies. There are books called The black West, Also Black Indians, that talk about this stuff. In Some of them, you can clearly see the blending. They have the native hair and features, yet black as the Ace of spades, actually have them today
@Ardor Absolutely nothing zero about this woman looks Indian except her fake hair weave. Her face totally looks African. Some people on this site need to hang out with more , Africans black, Black Carribeans or just African black mixed peoples. I come from a country with both blacks and Indians and she does not have an Indian face at all.
@Neiltenant for one I sgee with you. Mel B just looks black to me. And she is likely wearing a straight hair weave fake hair in that pic. Her real hair is wild thick and super curly. I dont see any of her white mom in her at all. 100% black Africans come in her skin tone as well.
@Nieltenant typo meant to say I AGREE with you
I see more white in her face than black she look 100% mixed !!!
You have no idea what a black person looks like. Go over to Viola Davis or Lupita Nyongo’s page.They look full black. Skin tone has nothing to do with how mixed someone is. There are dark skinned Europids and East Asians
True. and her real skin color is light brown she just tan a lot… and her face is more white than black im sorry she look more like her mom