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Birth Name: Danielia Brooks
Place of Birth: Hopewell, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 24, 1967
Ethnicity: * father – Puerto Rican-Spanish * mother – African-American, possibly European and Native American
Danielia Cotton is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Danielia is the daughter of Wenonah J. Brooks, a jazz singer, and a father of Puerto Rican and Spanish ancestry. Danielia has never met her father. Danielia is married to attorney Sam Roberts, who is of Russian Jewish descent. Danielia is a convert to Judaism.
Danielia’s maternal grandmother is named Evelyn Dunn Brooks.
In 2014, regarding her ethnicity, Danielia stated :
Record companies just never knew what to do, they were just like this doesn’t work and the only person they consider like a Black rocker is Tina Turner and they were like that was a long time ago. It’s like nobody’s broken through since then and they just don’t want to try it’s just too difficult. And I’m Black and half-Latino which even makes them more confused and if I really spelled it out for them that my mom is Black, white and American Indian and my dad is Puerto-Rican and Spanish I think they would just walk away. But that’s America right now, that’s what it is.
Record companies just never knew what to do, they were just like this doesn’t work and the only person they consider like a Black rocker is Tina Turner and they were like that was a long time ago. It’s like nobody’s broken through since then and they just don’t want to try it’s just too difficult. And I’m Black and half-Latino which even makes them more confused and if I really spelled it out for them that my mom is Black, white and American Indian and my dad is Puerto-Rican and Spanish I think they would just walk away. But that’s America right now, that’s what it is.
Sources: http://www.npr.org http://www.centraljersey.com