Tinashe
Tinashe in 2014, photo by PR Photos
Birth Name: Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe
Place of Birth: Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States
Date of Birth: February 6, 1993
Ethnicity:
*father – Shona Zimbabwean
*mother – Irish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Scottish
Tinashe is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, model, dancer, actress, and director.
Her name “Tinashe” means “We are with God” in Shona; a Bantu language, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia.
Tinashe has said:
#MyHeritage is Norwegian, Danish, Irish, a teeeeny bit of Scottish and English, and half Zimbabwean!
Tinashe’s maternal grandfather is Michael Fitzgerald (the son of Ralph A. Fitzgerald and Lillian D. Hexom). Ralph was of Irish ancestry, the son of John Fitzgerald and Abigale Malanaphy. Lillian was of Norwegian descent, the daughter of Helmer Hexom and Stella Arness.
Tinashe’s maternal grandmother was Patricia Jorgensen (the daughter of Arthur C. Jorgensen and Cleone J. Kennard). Arthur had Danish ancestry. Cleone was the daughter of Glenn Clyde Kennard and Myrtle Irene Simerson.
Source: Genealogy of Tinashe (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.strandnet.com
Obituary of Tinashe’s paternal great-grandmother, Lillian D. (Hexom) Fitzgerald – http://www.findagrave.com
Tinashe’s maternal great-grandmother, Cleone J. Kennard, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Cute
She’s cute.
Typical generic mixed girl look. Why do most of these mixed chicks act ghetto? Even if they were born and raised in the suburbs they insist on acting like they’re from hood. Drop their asses in Compton and see if they’re really “about that life”.
From THE hood ~~ Excuse my error.
I’ll tell you exactly why “mixed chicks” act like they are from the ghetto when they are actually from the suburbs… It is because most mixed/biracial girls feel a lot of pressure to prove their “blackness.” They will go out of their way to excessively use AAVE and dress in a way that they feel is “black.” This is because black people have a habit of making mixed/biracial girls feel unwelcome and like outsiders, as if they have to prove that they are truly black. Let’s face it, if a mixed/biracial girl acts like herself, acts like she is from the suburbs and doesn’t use AAVE, then black people will ridicule them and accuse them of “wanting to be white” or of self-hate; God forbid they dye their hair blond, then they will REALLY get it from black folks. Which is strange, because they’re half white anyways, so… Admit it, if mixed girls didn’t act ghetto, and acted “white,” instead, you’d STILL be complaining about that too, huh?
Correction; born in Lexington, Kentucky
The surname “Jorgenson” is not Norwegian, but Swedish. The Norwegian (and Danish) variant is “Jørgensen”. So at least the line where this surname comes from is originated in Sweden.