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6. Ne-Yo

The R&B singer is obviously African-American, but that ancestry only makes up seventy-five percent of his roots. Ne-Yo’s father is surprisingly half Chinese and half African-American. The singer was born Shaffer Chimere Smith. His stage name “Ne-Yo” was coined by Big D Evans, because Evans claimed that Ne-Yo sees music as Neo sees the matrix.

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