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
Looks like a classic Alpine white type.
Grey eyes are NOT the light version of blue. They are way darker than blue eyes, even darker that light-green eyes. However, ligh-grey eyes (which are extremely rare and Pitbull doesnt have them) might be lighter than blue eyes.
PS – Pitbull is Spanish-Cuban, but this doesnt make him “White”. If it would make him “White”, then B-Real of Cypress Hill or Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine are also White guys.
… and of course B-Real and Zack De la Rocha ARE White, but in America thay are seen as “Latino”, not “White”.
Lmfao. Seriously that comment almost gave me cancer. Pitbull is White, and lastly, Latino is not a race.
I’m so lost on the whole :Spanish- Cuban, Spanish-Puerto Rican, Spanish-Colombian, Spanish-Mexican vs. Afro-Cuban, Afro-Puerto Rican, Afro-Dominican, etc. as it seems to label a person based on what they mostly look like and this is not accurate. Most of the Hispanics on this site are mixed, so saying one is afro or one is Spanish is kinda dumb when Hispanics are native, black, European, that’s why we’re Hispanics. Jennifer Lopez is Just Puerto Rican, and Eva Mendes is Just Cuban, you guys didn’t attempt to put Afro- or Spanish-, because you cant tell just by looking at them and the same goes for every other Hispanic on this site regardless if they are very dark or light skinned with blue eyes, Just put their ethnicity and leave it at that
well, when you just put “mexican”, “cuban”, “puerto rican” it’s very vague, it would be like putting “american” or “canadian” because of colonization of the ‘new world’, it’s really not an ethnicity, unless you put “native/mestizo/spanish/creole/afro/french/etc”. An afro-mexican person is just as mexican as a spanish-mexican person, but they look different, because they are different races. If you just wrote “mexican”, you’d really have no idea what their actual ethnicity is (are they native? african? spanish? mixed? it answers almost nothing). Yes many people in latin america are mixed race/ethnicity, but afro/spanish/mestizo/etc is what they are MAINLY, if a person is about 10% native and 90% black, they would probably be labeled “afro”, if a person is about 1/2 native, 1/4 african, 1/4 white, they would probably be labeled “afro-mestizo”. same goes for any other combination. If we were talking about a person who’s family has been in the US for many generations, it would be unacceptable to just say “american”, you’d say “african american”, “native american”, “asian american”, “white american”, etc. People from the Americas look very different from each other, you can’t just group them together by nationality.
He’s white.
No that is not why we are hispanics We are only hispanic because our white,European language.Hispanic is an eurocentric word it doesn’t mean being mixed.
correction; his eyes are grey (light blue)
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CORRECTION: ===> Grey eyes are NOT the light version of blue. They are way darker than blue eyes, even darker that light-green eyes. However, light-grey eyes (which are extremely rare and Pitbull doesnt have them) might be lighter than blue eyes.
He is a proper Spaniard! He looks absolutely continental.. Cuban is not an ethnicity; it is a nationality. Spaniards are just ”white” people to be elementary about it. They are just not Germanic or Scandinavian looking. But, neither are the Celts( Irish, Scots, Welsh) they have dark hair and eyes fairly often.
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I am from Spain and I look Germanic. Please do not stereotype us. Remember that there have been alot of mixing between Europeans. My family comes from different countries of Europe. They are all white.