Pitbull
Pitbull in 2010, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Armando Christian Pérez
Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 15, 1981
Ethnicity: Cuban [Spanish, possibly other]
Pitbull is an American rapper, performer, brand ambassador, entrepreneur, actor, and philanthropist. He is also known as Mr. 305 and Mr. Worldwide.
He was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Alysha Ángela Acosta and José Antonio Armando Pérez Estades. He has six children.
His parents were born in Cuba. His parents instilled Cuban culture in him by making him memorize the words of Cuban poet José Martí. Pitbull has stated that being “white with blue eyes” made his journey into the rap music industry a little difficult as he did not fit the typical mold for a rapper.
Pitbull’s primary genre is Latin Rap and Reggaeton with some Miami Bass flavor. He has a penchant for dropping verses in Spanish.
Pitbull’s paternal grandfather was José Antonio Cecilio Pérez Cruz (the son of Juan Pérez Quintero and Asunción Cruz Cruz). Pitbull’s grandfather José was born in Quiebra Hacha, La Habana, now part of Artemisa.
Pitbull’s paternal grandmother was Teresa María Candelaria Estades Torres (the daughter of Matías Estades Sánchez and Mariana Torres Morea). Teresa was born in Mariel, La Habana. Matías was the son of Francisco Estades y Rosales and Adelina Sánchez Bocalandro. Mariana was the daughter of José Torres y Morera and Francisca Morea y Morales.
Pitbull’s maternal grandfather was Juan Antonio Reyes Acosta (the son of José Reyes and Juana Acosta Colomar). Pitbull’s grandfather Juan was born in Niquero, Granma.
Pitbull’s maternal grandmother is named Ana Alicia Dennis Figueredo (the daughter of parents surnamed Dennis and Figueredo). Alicia was born in Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba.
Sources: http://www.miaminewtimes.com
Genealogy of Pitbull – https://www.geni.com
frankie muniz is puerto rican
He looks German
meh im tired of commenting, people will believe what they want to believe even if they’re super dark skinned black person would believe they’re not and think they’re white. i like him and i like seeing him since people like to make fun of him for being silly so i don’t care where he or his family comes from or what ethnicity he is as long as he’s still himself and making music….ill keep liking him.
Please go away.
I agree with almost everything Gutierrez says exception two things: 1) Native Cubans did not die off. They mixed into the population. There are regions of Cuba where Taino/Arawak words and customs still linger. My Cuban DNA confirms the existing of Native Cuban blood which I likely acquired from my mother whose ancestors originated in Camagüey. 2) The claim that “Cuba was 74% whites one year before Castro” might be accurate if determination was made solely on visual phenotype. However, Cuba has a long history of race mixing that goes all the way back to the creoles. In fact, many “white-in-appearance” descendents were known to have an Afro-Cuban grandmother who posed as the live-in maid so that her “white-in-appearance” descendants could attain societal advancements. Fact: Cuban Spaniards had a penchant for dark women, and still do. We Cubans have a saying that bites at the core of insults when a white Cuban attempts to look down on dark-skinned Cubans: “Y tu abuela ‘donde ‘sta?”. Basically, the question of “And, where’s grandma?” is a reference back to the old days of sacrifice the Afro-Cuban grandmother made for her progeny.
That said, Pitbull has an unusually bulbous nose for a pure European, eh?