Rita Ora

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Ora in 2014, photo by Prphotos

Birth Name: Rita Sahatçiu

Place of Birth: Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo)

Date of Birth: 26 November, 1990

Ethnicity: Albanian

Rita Ora is a British singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her songs “R.I.P.,” “How We Do (Party),” “Your Song,” “Anywhere,” “Let You Love Me,” and, in a featured role, “Hot Right Now.”

She was born in Pristina, Yugoslavia, to a Kosovan Albanian family. She is the daughter of Vera (Bajraktari), a psychiatrist, and Besnik Sahatçiu, a pub owner. Her father is a Muslim and her mother is Catholic. Her family moved to the U.K in 1991, because of the persecution of Albanians in Kosovo, and she was raised in Notting Hill, London. Her surname, Sahatçiu, is derived from the Turkish word saatçi, which means “watchmaker.” Her family later added “Ora” to her full name; the word means “time” in Albanian. In 2015, she was named Honorary Ambassador of Kosovo.

When asked about her ethnicity in an interview, Rita stated that she is “100% from Kosovo,” here. A picture of Rita’s father can be seen here. A picture of Rita’s mother can be seen here. Rita is married to New Zealand actor and filmmaker Taika Waititi.

Rita’s paternal grandfather was Besim Sahatçiu, a film and theatre director (the son of Adem Sahatçiu and Besa). Besim was born in Pejë, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Kosovo.

Rita’s maternal grandfather was named Osman Bajraktari. Osman was the Albanian consul to Russia, then part of the USSR.

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  1. zachbickle says:

    Even her mother’s surname is turkish. “Bajraktar / Bayraktar” means “standard bearer” in Turkish. Probably her ancestors served in the Ottoman army. Its a very very common surname in Turkey too.

  2. SClife says:

    She really gives me Rihanna vibes so I understand why people tend to compare the two. She also could pass as a Latin American.

  3. hottea01 says:

    This is the most natural look she ever done and she looks like her race white. She still has some tan but it’s not as crazy as her other looks.
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/hellogiggles.com/fashion/rita-ora-fifty-shades-premiere/%3famp=true

  4. hottea01 says:

    Rita Ora is a white women the reason why you all get confused is because she tans her skin dark to look ambiguous. If you remove the tan skin, the makeup, put her natural hair color back cause blonde isn’t really her shade. She will look As an average white girl. the music industry wants a certain look for this white women especially Ariana Grande when she was really pale in victorious. Look at Rita Ora younger pictures especially from child to teen she looked white.

  5. abbracci says:

    That look is from the black African Moors.

    • Raggy Bitt says:

      When will you Americans understand that the nations of eastern and southern Europe are racially mixed.
      Not only because of invasions from the past but simply because of geographical position.
      What is it with you racist Americans? Rita Ora grew up in Albania where you’re not judged by you skin tone like in racist USA
      Secondly eastern and southern Europe aren’t mixed with black, we’re mixed with Arab, Turk, Tatar, Hun, north African in the Balkan region and south western Europe of course.
      It doesn’t matter, race doesn’t matter and please leave my people alone!
      And please stop harassing the world

      • passingtime85 says:

        Why do you always assume Americans make these comments?

        By the way Arabs and North Africans have Sub-Saharan admixture. Rita’s skin tone isn’t the big discrepancy, her facial features look like they have Sub-Saharan influence. Rita’s siblings, mother, and father look Albanian, she looks like she was adopted.

          • passingtime85 says:

            I see the resemblance, but honestly if I didn’t know they were related I wouldn’t assume these two women had the same ethnic background.

          • passingtime85 says:

            He looks like he’d be from the Balkans. But I’m not some supreme profiler that claims awesome accuracy.

            Brazilians can so mixed their attributes may vary considerably. They’re not just perfectly sliced mixed from on generation to the next, but they descend from mixtures on top of mixtures. Instead of people being a product of being 1/3rd of something they’re usually doubled over , becoming 2/6ths of something, which show up as a neat percentage on an admixture test, but makes for unique physiognomic characteristics. They keep swapping these traits back and forth, so traits that typically would be erased over a few generations had they been absorbed back into a majority population or a homogeneous population, but they stay present, because the majority was is mixed to begin with.

          • Andrew133 says:

            @passingtime85 Quote {He looks like he’d be from the Balkans.} Wow, if this person could be from balkan then I could say that Rita ora is not adopted and she is European and she could also be from balkan because both of them (Rita Ora and ERIC EREMITA) have the same nose shape, I know personally many Europeans with the same nose shape and facial features of rita ora and they are not adopted at all, they are Europeans like any European

            Quote {Brazilians can so mixed their attributes may vary considerably. They’re not just perfectly sliced mixed from on generation to the next, but they descend from mixtures on top of mixtures. Instead of people being a product of being 1/3rd of something they’re usually doubled over , becoming 2/6ths of something, which show up as a neat percentage on an admixture test, but makes for unique physiognomic characteristics. They keep swapping these traits back and forth, so traits that typically would be erased over a few generations had they been absorbed back into a majority population or a homogeneous population, but they stay present, because the majority was is mixed to begin with.}

            I cited this brazilian woman as an example of how some one could have high african ancestry and still have “European looking”, I bet that if you saw this woman you would never guess that she has this high amount of african ancestry at all

          • andrew says:

            @Andrew133

            Eremita looks like someone with German(ic) ancestry. He has blue-eyes, broad features, clearly a Cro-Magnoid type. There’s a wrestler of German background in this site that looks similar.

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