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Haddaway – Acceleration 2014 Portugal International Race and Music Festival Concert – April 25, 2014 – Algarve International Circuit, Sitio do Escampadinho, Mexilhoeira Grande – Portimao, Portugal – Photo Credit: Rui M. Leal / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Nestor Alexander Haddaway
Place of Birth: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Date of Birth: 9 January, 1965
Ethnicity: African-Trinidadian
Haddaway is a Trinidadian-born German singer, songwriter, and musician. He is known for his song “What Is Love.”
His father is a marine biologist and his mother is a nurse. As a child he lived in Europe with his father, and the U.S. with his mother, settling in the Washington, D.C., area, and then living in Fort Meade, Maryland. He moved to Cologne, Germany, in his early 20s.