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FERGIE,
Singer
D.O.B.: 03/27/1975(Aries) |
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Background: Mexican, Irish, Scottish, Native American descent |
On
her mixed
background:
“My heritage is a complete
mixture that includes Irish, Scottish and Mexican
strains, and I don’t feel tied to any one culture,"
she told Latina magazine.
When the magazine asks Fergie
why her Latina background has been so ambiguous the
singer say, “I don’t go around claiming it big
time,” the singer explained, “because there are many
more full-bred Latinas that are out there to
represent.”
Interesting fact:
- She is a vocalist for the hip hop/pop
group the Black Eyed Peas
- Fergie was the voice of Sally Brown in
two Charlie Brown specials: It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown
(1984) and Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown
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SHEMAR MOORE,
Actor/Model
D.O.B.: 04/20/70 (Aries) |
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Mother: Caucasian of Irish and
French-Canadian Descent
Father:
African-American |
On
his mixed
background:
"I was taught to believe in
myself, and not think I was different because I wasn't of one race," he told
Black Collegian Online.
"They [his parents] believed their
love was real. It didn't matter about color. You could mesh and there could be
harmony. They wanted their child to be a product of that...so they took the
first three letters of each name - She-Mar and that's me, baby!"
Moore is best known for his role
as Malcolm Winters in
The Young and the Restless, which he originally played from 1994-2002,
and as a host of the Soul Train series, from 1999-2003.
Interesting fact:
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He has dated both Halle
Berry and Toni Braxton
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He
says that his name represents harmony - She, after his father, Sherrod, Mar,
after his mother Marilyn.
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IMANI COPPOLA,
Singer/Songwriter/Violinist
D.O.B.: 04/06/1978 (Aries) |
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Mother:
Italian-American
Father:
African-American |
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On
her mixed
background:
"I just feel like there
isn’t enough awareness of how difficult it might be for a bi-racial
person to have a culture to identify with, or feel like they have a
place in the world," she told RubyHornet.com. "I can
make jokes about white people and black people. I can feel like a
really intense hatred towards both races too....probably the hardest
thing for me to have to dealt with is not having anything that I
really identify with and relate to, and always feeling like you will
never have a home in the world, no matter where you go. It’s lonely.
But it makes me unique, blah, blah, blah."
"There's this
double standard where the white world went out of its way to stop
making fun of black people, but black people feel entitled to make
fun of white people and other kinds of people," she told Time Out
NY. "I'm speaking emotionally, because I'm a little raw and salty
from living in the 'hood and not fitting in."[
Interesting
fact:
Coppola is
best known for her 1997 hit "Legend of a Cowgirl," |
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CHAD MORTON, Athlete D.O.B.:04/04/1977
(Aries) |
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Mother:
Japanese
Father:
Black |
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On his
mixed background:
"I love being parts of two different
cultures," he told DiscoverNikkei.com. "I think it's just something
special to be. Mixed with a little of this, and a little of that. It
helps build character, too. Unless you understand what other people
are about... you know, it makes yourself stronger. You can relate to
different people that way I think. Understanding, or just
studying... you know, African-American culture and Japanese-American
culture, and it just gives you a perspective that you might not see
from if you were just one ethnicity or one race. I think it's
benefited me greatly."
Morton is an American football running
back who has played for the New Orleans Saints, New York Jets,
Washington Redskins and New York Giants. |
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CHINO XL,
Rapper/Actor
D.O.B.: 04/08/1974(Aries)
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Mother: African-American
Father: Puerto
Rican |
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On his
mixed background:
"I am half black, but
still and all, the first line that the world really heard from me
was 'You know the term Chino's Latin but I got Black soul,'' he told
Latinrapper.com. " Always was in the music, I always mentioned it.
It's almost like they say about God, you take one step towards it,
and it takes two steps towards you. Once I really started to
explore that side of my heritage, they were like, 'Dog, when you
were doing freestyles on Where My Latinos At, rocking with
Sondoobiest and B-Real and all that, yo you've been repping for us
for a really really long time.' And I've really just looked at
myself as an MC, and being Latin was just a bonus to be able to rep
for a people that weren't as represented." |
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BEN NIGHTHORSE
CAMPBELL, Political Figure
D.O.B.: 04/13/1933 (Aries)
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Mother:
Portuguese
Father:
Native American, Northern
Cheyenne Tribe |
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Campbell had a
difficult childhood,
with a mother frequently
hospitalized for tuberculosis and an alcoholic father, he frequently
spent most of his youth in the streets. While working as a fruit
picker, Campbell befriended some Japanese youths who taught him
judo, which led to him eventually becoming a three-time U.S.
judo champion and winning the gold medal in the Pan-American games
in 1963.
Interesting fact:
- He was a U.S.
Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005 and was for some time the
only person from a Native American background serving in the U.S.
Congress
- He was only the 3rd politician of Native American heritage
to serve in the U.S. Senate in history
- He has worked as a
teacher, policeman,
prison counselor, farm laborer, truck driver and jewelry
designer.
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