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
Pitbull is White, of pure Spanish descent
Pitbull is white, he is a blue eyed man with strong European facial features, he is very likely of full Spaniard descent or of some other European country. Spaniards weren’t the only ones to immigrate to Cuba. And anyone saying that he may not be white because he may have Native American and/or black is using double standards. 1 out of 3 white Americans have some black ancestor yet no one questions their “whiteness” but the moment someone comes from a Hispanic country comes into the picture, their European roots are put into question.
LOL exactly. There is always a double standard when it comes to Hispanic people, because OMG PURE WHITE (or any other race) HISPANICS CAN’T EXIST!
You couldn’t be more right! I’ve seen this happen many times and not only to Hispanics, but Brazilians too. If you watch any interview with Gisele Bündchen on YouTube, there will be lots of people saying that she’s not Brazilian, that she’s German. And the woman can’t even speak German! And I also read a comment where someone says that Alessandra Ambrósio isn’t White because she’s “brown, a latina”, like he said.
I don’t know why it’s so hard to simply take it that a White person may be from Latin America!
OMG Are any people here Cuban! The spaniards killed all the natives in Cuba so nobody has native blood but Pitbull is full White that is for sure.
A) Not all the natives were killed.
B) You are right that Pitbull is most likely full blooded European like my Cuban family is.
how do you peope know so much..about the average cuban?….and currently Cuba has 65% European majority population according to their official 2002 census, although this is disputed from other oservers. read cuba on wiki with all the sources are there. But that doenst mean everyone has to be mixed. Most of the Cuban americans were the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Spanish immigrants, and 50years later the cuban population has changed quite abit since most of the middle and upper class left cuba.Only 100 years ago the cuban population was only 1.5 million, to now 11 million.
To Mellow Yellow
that’s so true,I prove that a bunch of times on here