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. Andrew133 says:

    don’t be dumb, the vast majority of turkish dont look like greece at all, they have high amount of turkic oghuz dna

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4pIY0TCqVqhSi16a2ZjbVJNaUE?resourcekey=0-GBxf4lmRsJCZ8ZBJgl9vIQ

  2. bluexoxo says:

    Funnily enough, both of her parents look whiter than her. She obviously tans a lot. Another Ariana Grande case, as pointed out by several users.

  3. NOTREALLY says:

    https://www.insider.com/rita-ora-race-blackfishing-twitter-realizes-parents-white-albanian-2020-8
    America never ceases to amaze me, wtf
    & as far as I see it she’s white, this are her parents, they don’t look any any way exotic imho
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Df6xMfyUcAAq8BN.jpg
    https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article5455618.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PAY-A-young-Rita-Ora-with-family.jpg
    she probably has “mediterranean” admixture? yes. She also deliberately accentuates her exoticism? Likely

    • jonasbttencourt says:

      wow so it turns out she is just another white person with an obssession for looking as dark and “exotic” as possible, all the pics i saw from her till now were from concerts and other media apperiences, the foto on the last link is really telling, it’s another “Ariana Grande situation” that we have in hands, gentleman

      • jonasbttencourt says:

        her real apperience is very much standard southern european, it’s possible she has some north african or middle eastern admixture, but it’s likely it would be something in the 8-12% range, wich is really not much and it’s common in basically every southern european person

  4. seaweed123 says:

    It’s confusing that someone is 100% white but have visible prominent Black features. Every time I see her on the screen, I see a light skin Black girl. She looks more Black than some mixed race people I know.

  5. jonasbttencourt says:

    There is no way this woman is more than 3/4 euro with these broad features… Gotta have a turkish or north african thing going on, her lips are very arabian like

    • angiemorton says:

      Absolutely. She is not 100% white.

      • bluexoxo says:

        She’s at the very least 90% white European. Typical Mediterranean European look found all over the Balkans, Italy, Spain and Eastern Europe. Plus she tans a lot.

        • porkarella says:

          You’re at the very least 100% uneducated.
          Typcal another — or Afro/Arab/Asian or Hispanic a non white who never have been to Europe she’s clearly black of fully Turkish root, only non white non Europeans can say she’s white, she has zero of European looking as color and features, false she’s semitic NOT Mediterranean, real Mediterraneans have European looking they have white skin, Euro face and delicate features, brown-black hair and brown-black eyes.
          Guess what I’m a real European living in Europe and I see daily Europeans unlike you.
          Only the ethnics of Arab and Turkish roots are like her not the fully Europeans, she’s unusual.
          In Italy where I live only the Southerns of Arab background and the Slav immigrants of Turkish origin are like this not everybody, like in the East, in Spain and Portugual only the mixed come in this shape.
          You have to study biology, history and travel a lot to see how Europeans are made for real.

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