Birth Name: Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 10, 1961
Ethnicity:
*Scottish, Irish, English, Native American, Italian (father)
*Filipino (mother)
Nia Peeples is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Joan Rubic and Robert Eugene Peeples. In an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, she stated:
My grandparents on my mother’s side are both from the Philippines… My grandfather, Frank Nuñez Rubic, was from Manila. My grandmother, Emilia Salcedo, was from Cebu… My grandfather joined the US Navy in the Philippines in 1925 and when they docked over in San Francisco, he jumped ship so he could get his family here… My grandmother came over illegally, during the war. So when they had children, they wouldn’t allow their kids to speak Tagalog and told them to act like Americans. The kids understood Tagalog but never spoke it.
She also stated that her father was from the South of the U.S., and is of Scottish, Irish, English, Native American, and Italian ancestry.
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