Melanie Fiona
Fiona in 2010, lev radin/ Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Melanie Fiona Hallim
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth: July 4, 1983
Ethnicity: Guyanese [African, Indian, Portuguese]
Melanie Fiona is a Canadian R&B singer and songwriter. She is also known as Syren Hall.
Her parents are Guyanese, and have African, Indian, and Portuguese ancestry. Melanie is married to pop-R&B singer and songwriter, and model Jared Cotter, with whom she has two children.
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I know of her. She is mostly African of course, the Portuguese and Indian admixtures are smaller amounts. Most black or Afro -Guyanese people are African , with small amounts of Portuguese and Indian dna. But the Afro black Guyanese amount is higher. The Portuguese population of Guyana is like 2%. However, before the Portuguese came to Guyana they were mixed with African from African admixture in Portugal. Guyana has a 7% American Indian Population then a %50 percent East Indian from India population too. Then a 40% Black/Afro Guyanese population that is mostly black but has mixtures too, like African Americans.
Melanie is more African/Afro-Guyanese though.
I’ve seen her parents. Her father looks pure indian, like 95-100% South Asian Indian. Her mom looks African with smaller amounts of Indian or maybe Portuguese. I’d guess Melanie to be 50-60% Indian, the rest African with some European.
She has stated to be:
• Indian (father)
• Black, Portuguese (mother)
Yea that’s what I figured. So she’s basically more Asian & European than she is black. People wouldn’t think otherwise because she’s dark skinned
Well facial features tell another story.
she looks like Chaka Khan
to bad she can’t sign like her