Hanswahini SinghCameron Diaz
The charming personality Cameron Diaz is professionally an actress, author, producer and a dazzling fashion model. Cameron is one of the top actresses in Hollywood and has given several blockbusters like ‘There’s Something About Mary’, ‘Charlie’s Angels’, ‘In her shoes’ and the list goes on. Recently, she became popular for voicing the character Princess Fiona in the film ‘Shrek’. Many presume her to be all American woman but that is not the case. The phenomenal actress is half Cuban from her father’s side who migrated to America from Cuba. Even she was noticed saying that her family was not in Florida at the time of Cigar rollers and then later they moved to California.
Vanessa Hudgens
American actress Vanessa Hudgens became prominent in Hollywood after appearing in High School Musical film series as Gabriella Montez. Thereafter, she played many roles in series and films for Disney Channel. After giving hit albums, she focussed on her acting career and performed stupendously in movies like ‘Beastly’, ‘Journey 2- The Mysterious Island’, ‘Gigi and Grease: Live’. Hudgens has recounted her past arguing that her upbringing has inculcated Filipino values as her mother is from Phillippines carrying Chinese, Filipino and Spanish roots. Vanessa’s father hailed from the Irish and American native descent. So, she is half American and half Filipino!
Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. is a great entertainer and audience just love his unique sense of humor. He bagged several awards for his work; six PrimeTime Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Peabody Award and awards for his stand up comedy shows ‘Live at the Beacon Theatre’ and ‘Oh My God’. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Louis number four on the list among the top 50 best stand up comics special.
Louis carries the traits of both Hungary and Mexico descent. His grandfather was a jew from Hungary who migrated to Mexico and met his wife there. Louis stayed in Mexico till he was 7 yrs old and later the entire family immigrated to D.C. The first language the star learned was Spanish and got to learn English only after his second grade.
Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick is a football quarterback. He has made huge records in sports. Colin is himself unaware of his lineage. He was also adopted by Teresa Kaepernick and Rick Kaepernick who were cheesemakers in Wisconsin. His biological father hails from African American descent and mother carries white traits. He found him to be different as compared to his sister and brother. Colin once said, “I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.”
Mya Marrie Harrison
Mya Harrison is an outstanding singer, songwriter, and actress. She was loved by people since she released her debut album ‘Eponymous’ by signing with Interscope Records. This album was stupendously successful in the United States and her second album ‘Fear of Flying’ was also a remarkable one, the most popular being ‘Case of the Ex’. She also achieved a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration for ‘Lady Marmalade’. Talking about her biracial traits, she argued, “I grew up just outside Washington and, with my dad being African American and my mother being Caucasian, I was teased about my ethnic background.”When we all went shopping together the kids used to call me ‘zebra’ or ‘newspaper’. I tried to laugh with them, but it still really hurt.”
Lenny Kravitz
The singing style of Lenny Kravitz makes him unique among other singers as his retro style is influenced by the elements of pop, folk, ballads, hard rock, funk, jazz, R&B, rock, blues, soul, psychedelic, and reggae.He is not only an outstanding singer but also plays almost all the instruments very well. Now while talking about his mixed racial traits, he personally considered it to be normal but he was a victim of discrimination when he was in his first grade. One of his classmates came to him and said: “Ohh your father is white”. Talking about the incident he said, “I didn’t understand what that was about and why that was an issue… That was the first day that I had to think about it. It just let me know, okay, this is how folks think.”