Birth Name: Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo Cady
Place of Birth: Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil
Date of Birth: May 27, 1973
Ethnicity: Brazilian (including 1/4 Spanish, Portuguese, minor African and Indigenous)
Ivete Sangalo is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress, and television show host.
Her mother, Maria Ivete Dias, had Portuguese ancestry. Her father, Alsus Almeida de Sangalo, was of half Spanish descent through his own father.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the Brazilian TV show Fantástico in August 2006 stated that Ivete’s genetic ancestry is:
99.2% European
0.4% Native Brazilian (Amerindian)
0.4% Black African
Sources: www.elcorreogallego.es (in Spanish)
http://g1.globo.com (in Portuguese)
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