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  2. Apr 21, 2010 · Ethnicity: African-American. Johnny Mathis is an American singer. He is the son of Mildred (Boyd) and Clemmie Lorenzo Mathis. His parents were both black. A picture of Johnny with his parents can be seen here. Johnny’s paternal grandfather was John Mathis (the son of Charles Mathis and Susan Pipkin). John was born in Texas, to parents from ...

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  4. He is of African-American ethnicity. They relocated to San Francisco when Mathis was 5 years old, and they settled on 32nd Avenue in the Richmond District, where Mathis and his siblings were brought up. Mathis’s dad Clem Mathis worked in vaudeville as a pianist and singer.

  5. Aug 30, 2023 · Both of Johnny Mathis' parents are African-American. His mother (Mildred Boyd Mathis) was fair complexioned and his father (Clem Mathis, Sr.) had a similar bronze complexion as his son,...

  6. Apr 30, 2024 · His parents, Mildred and Clemmie Lorenzo Mathis, were both Black, with his mother’s family having Native American ancestry. Mathis has recognized his mixed racial background, acknowledging his African-American and American Indian heritage.

  7. Jun 11, 2024 · Johnny Mathis’ parents, Clem Mathis and Mildred Boyd, come from diverse backgrounds. His father was a singer and pianist in vaudeville, while his mother worked as a domestic cook. Johnny Mathis himself is African-American, with claimed Native American ancestry on his mother’s side.

  8. Dec 7, 2021 · Mathis had a happy childhood, with six brothers and sisters, and he was raised by parents who he adored, and who were a mixed-race couple. “My dad was white, and my mom was black.

  9. May 14, 2017 · John ‘Johnny’ Mathis Royce was born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935. When he was still a small child, he moved to Post Street with his family in the Fillmore neighborhood of San Francisco.

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