Nicole Scherzinger
Scherzinger in 2011
Birth Name: Nicole Prascovia Elikolani Valiente
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 29, 1978
Ethnicity:
*50% Filipino [Ivatan]
*25% Ukrainian
*12.5% Hawaiian
*12.5% Polish
Nicole Scherzinger is an American recording artist, dancer, television personality, and actress. She has also been credited as Nicole Kea. She is known for being the lead vocalist of The Pussycat Dolls, a band whose members also included Carmit Bachar, Kaya Jones, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Melody Thornton, and Kimberly Wyatt, as well as Asia Nitollano.
She is the daughter of Rosemary Elikalani (Frederick) Scherzinger and Alfonso A[lueta] Valiente, Jr. Her father is Filipino, from the Batanes Islands in the Philippines. Her mother has Native Hawaiian, Ukrainian, and Polish, ancestry. Her mother was a professional hula dancer. Nicole’s surname comes from her stepfather, Gary Scherzinger, who has German ancestry. She was raised partly in Louisville, Kentucky.
Nicole’s paternal grandfather was Alfonso Arca Valiente (the son of Salvador Valiente y Batiforra, or Salvador Batiforra Valiente in Filipino, and of Adriana Arca e Idel, or Adriana Idel Arca in Filipino). Nicole’s grandfather Alfonso was born in Kauai County, Hawaii, to Filipino parents, the former from Basco, Batanes. Salvador was the son of Gaspar Valiente and Martina Batiforra. Adriana was the daughter of Domingo Arca and Máxima Idel.
Nicole’s paternal grandmother was Joaquina “Jojo” Alueta y Ferido (or Joaquina Ferido Alueta in Filipino, the daughter of Juan Alueta y Amarante, or Juan Amarante Alueta in Filipino, and of Aniceta Ferido y Figura, or Aniceta Figura Ferido in Filipino). Joaquina was a Filipino emigrant, from Manila. Juan was the son of Francisco Alueta and María Amarante. Aniceta was the daughter of Mateo Ferido and Raymunda Figura.
Nicole’s maternal grandfather is John Irvin Frederick (the son of William F. Frederick and Stella Bolka). John was born in New York. William was born in Pennsylvania, the son of Polish parents, William Frederick/Fredrick and Frances Vencowski/Viencoski/Vinskowski. Stella was born in Pennsylvania, to ethnic Ukrainian parents from Ulucz, Poland, Michael Bolka and Catherine/Kathryn.
Nicole’s maternal grandmother is Katherine P. Lenchanko, now Katherine Frederick (the daughter of John Ivan Lenchanko, Sr. and Angeline Kawailani Kea). Katherine was born in Hawaii. John was the son of Nikita Demidovich/Dimidovich Lenichenko/Lenitchenko/Lesnichenko and Praskovia/Paraskovia Kuzminichna/Kuzminisha Zenchenko. They were ethnic Ukrainian emigrants, who were Russian Orthodox Christians from the Kiev region, a village called Berezno. Nikita was one of 165 Russian and Ukrainian immigrants in Hawaii who wished to return to his native country, and sent an application for that. Pictures of, and information about, Nicole’s maternal great-grandfather John, and his family, can be seen here and here (Nicole’s great-grandfather is at the center of the picture at the second link, leaning on his father).
Nicole’s great-grandmother Angeline was the daughter of John Louis Kea/Mano and Margaret Dionicia/Dionisia Namakaokalani “Maggie” Iopa, and was of Native Hawaiian background.
01/05/2019 – Nicole Scherzinger – The Art Of Elysium’s 12th Annual Celebration – Heaven – Arrivals – Private Venue – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: David Gabber / PRPhotos.com
Sources: Nicole’s maternal grandfather, John Irvin Frederick, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Nicole’s maternal great-grandfather, William F. Frederick, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Nicole’s maternal great-grandmother, Stella Bolka, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of Nicole’s maternal great-grandmother, Stella (Bolka) Frederick – https://www.legacy.com
Genealogy of Nicole’s mother (focusing on her own mother’s side) – http://www.myheritage.com
Obituary of Nicole’s maternal great-grandfather, John Ivan Lenchanko, Sr. – http://archives.starbulletin.com
Should link other members of PSD on this page and their respective pages.
Currently, besides N.S. Carmit Bachar, Jessica Sutta and Melody Thornton have ethnicelebs pages.
Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts are still missing.
She is the daughter of Rosemary Elikalani (Frederick) Scherzinger and Alfonso Valiente. Her paternal grandfather’s ancestry is not known, therefore it should say: Native Hawaiian, Ukrainian, other. “Frederick” might be German or English.
are people really dumb enough to think she is part african? lol
My guess would have been a stereotypical mexican or from the indo-china region, with the heavy eye makeup she ends up looking indian/middleastern
Africans have a variety of looks because it’s a continent. Some Africans have “Asian” features like the Bushmen or mixed South Africans (Coloured) of Indian and Khoisan ancestry. I generally thought that Nicole was a Dougla mixed Indian and West Indian Guyanese because of her dark skin not a mixed Filipino which she is but there are many dark skinned Asians.
@Memphis
There are also a lot of mixed Filipinos with recent Afro- ancestry(although they like talking about it). She could be descended from one of them(who knows)
Looks full Filipino to me.
Bullshit. She doesn’t look Asian at all, she looks Indian.
AND YES I KNOW INDIANS ARE CONSIDERED ASIAN, BUT MOST THE OF THE WORLD DOESN’T CONSIDER THEM ASIAN.
Most of the world doesn’t consider Indians as Asians? You’ve got to be kidding me. Only the US of A refuses to acknowledge South Asian individuals as Asians. Majority of the world considers South Asians, or as your ignorant self refers to them by the term “Indians”, are actually Asians.
Look at the continent of Asia. Asia happens to be the biggest continent of the world; and yet, ignorant a-holes such as yourself, refuse to acknowledge it. You somehow have manged to convince yourself that East Asia represents the entire Asian continent. Asian isn’t even a race. It’s a geographical term.
South Asians are Indo-Caucasians; whereas, East Asians are oriental.
If anyone is from the continent of Asia, they’re Asian. It’s simple as that. Is that too difficult to comprehend?
She’s not Black. She has dark skin because of the Filipino in her. Eurasians are beautiful. Nicole is breathtakingly beautiful.
So what’re you saying? That even IF she had black in her that she wouldn’t be considered beautiful?! You sound dumb. Log tf off. Because obviously, there’s SOME African descent in her blood somewhere lmao