Birth Name: Camilo Wong Moreno
Place of Birth: Sacramento, California, United States
Date of Birth: June 20, 1973
Ethnicity:
* 87.5% Mexican (African, Spanish, possibly Indigenous)
* 12.5% Chinese
Chino Moreno is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and contributing guitarist of the American alternative metal band Deftones. His father, Camilo Diaz Moreno, Sr., is of Mexican descent. His mother, Deborah A. (Wong), is of Chinese and Mexican descent. He is married to Risa Mora. He was previously married to Celeste Schroeder.
Chino’s maternal grandfather was Ernest Martinez “Chino/Ernie” Wong (the son of Don Wong and Isabel Martínez). Don was of Chinese descent. Isabel was of Mexican descent, and was the daughter of Nicanor Martínez and Celsa García.
Chino’s maternal grandmother is Hermelinda “Mickey” Becerril (the daughter of Jesús “Jess” Becerril Rocha and Rosenda Nieblas Pacheco). Jesús was born in Mexico, to José “Joseph” M. Becerril and Leonor Rocha/López. Rosenda was born in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico, to Ramón Andrés Nieblas and María S. Pacheco Rodríguez.
Chino’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his fourth great-grandmother, Cirila Rodríguez.
Sources: Chino’s birth record – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLS5-L8D
Birth record of Chino’s parents – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6KX-D4D
Chino’s maternal grandfather, Ernest Wong, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K945-JW5
Obituary of Chino’s maternal grandfather, Ernest “Chino/Ernie” Wong – http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sacbee/obituary.aspx?pid=134061787
Birth record of Chino’s maternal grandmother, Hermelinda Becerril – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGFY-GMV
Chino’s maternal grandmother, Hermelinda Becerril, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9QJ-YNP
Chino’s maternal great-grandmother, Isabel Martínez, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGSV-NY4
Death record of Chino’s maternal great-grandfather, Jesús Becerril Rocha – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP6W-R77
Birth record of Chino’s maternal great-grandmother, Rosenda Nieblas Pacheco – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5VY-K34
Marriage records of Chino’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Ramón Andrés Nieblas and María S. Pacheco Rodríguez – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95VY-ZTT & https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5VY-8ZQ