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  2. Dec 28, 2007 · She was born in New Jersey, to Cuban immigrants, Carmen and Don Flores, who are of African-Cuban descent, with Spanish ancestry. A picture of her father can be seen here. She uses her mother’s surname. Christina was raised mostly in Waldorf, Maryland. Christina is able to speak Spanish.

  3. Oct 27, 2015 · Christina Milian detailed the challenges of being an Afro-Latina in Hollywood in a conversation with HuffPost Live on Monday. "Since early, it'd be like, I'm Cuban but [people] didn't get it because I was also brown-skinned, and you usually see a fair-skinned Latino, so it was just like, 'Oh, what are you?

  4. Sep 24, 2022 · Milian has been candid about her identity as Latinx, telling the Huffington Post in 2015 that she never felt that she “had to make a choice” between being African-American and Cuban.

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  5. Aug 12, 2023 · She is of Cuban-American descent, with her parents immigrating to the United States from Cuba. Musical Family Music runs in the family as Christina’s mother and two sisters are also singers.

  6. Christina Milian (/ ˌ m ɪ l i ˈ ɑː n /; née Flores, born September 26, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but raised in Maryland, she signed a contract with Def Soul at the age of 19.

  7. Aug 29, 2022 · Christina Milan is Afro-Cuban. The actress’ mother and her family moved to New Jersey in the United States of America when she (Christina’s mother) was only five years old.

  8. Mar 9, 2024 · Christina Milian has a mixed African-Cuban ethnicity. Growing up in Waldorf, MD, she faced challenges as classmates didn’t understand her background, leading to fights and school expulsions. At 19, she signed with Murder Inc. Records and released her debut album “Christina Milian” in 2001.