INTERRACIAL ARTISTS, INTERRACIAL ACTS & ANTI-RACIST SONGS

Musicians born to interracial parents, bands consisted of interracial members & songs that stigmatize all sorts of racism / racist behaviour.

Female Artists of interracial ancestry / descent

PAULA ABDUL: her father Syrian Jew (raised in Brasil) & her mother French Canadian Jew

SHOLA AMA: her father English & her mother Afro-Caribbean (Dominican & St. Lucian)

NATACHA ATLAS: her father Muslim (Arab) of Palestinean, Egyptian & Moroccan descent & her mother English

AYO: her father Nigerian & her mother Romanian Rom (Gypsy)

SHIRLEY BASSEY: her father Nigerian & her mother Welsh (British)

BETTY BOO: her father Dusun (Malaysian) & her mother Scottish

MICHELLE BRANCH: her father Irish & her mother of Dutch-Indonesian & French descent.

LA CAMILLA (ARMY OF LOVERS): her father Nigerian & her mother Swedish

BLU CANTRELL (real name Tiffany Cobb): her father is of Narragansett, Cape Verdean & Afro-American origin & her mother has French, Scottish, English & German ancestry.

MARIAH CAREY: her father a black Venezuelan & her mother Irish-American

NENEH CHERRY: her father from Sierra Leone & her mother Swedish (her famous step-father Don Cherry was of African-American origin)

ALESHA DIXON (MIS-TEEQ): her father Jamaican & her mother English

YVONNE ELLIMAN: her father of Irish & her mother Japanese descent.

MELANIE FIONA: she was born to Guyanese immigrants of black, Indian & Portuguese descent)

CHINA FORBES (PINK MARTINI): her father of French Scottish descent & her mother African American

ASTRUD GILBERTO: her father German & her mother Brazilian

CINDY HERRON (EN VOGUE): her father Afro-American & her mother German Swiss.

SUSIE HUG (KATYDIDS): her father American & her mother Japanese

JILL JONES: her father Italian & her mother Afro-American

NORAH JONES: daughter of famous Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar & New Yorker Sue Jones

KELIS: her father African American & her mother Chinese-Puerto Rican

ALICIA KEYS: her father Afro-American & her mother of Scottish, Irish & Italian descent

NATASHA KHAN (BAT FOR LASHES): her father Pakistani & her mother English

ANNA LaCAZIO (COCK ROBIN): her father Italian-American & her mother Chinese

VIKTOR LAZLO (Sonia Dronier): her father French (from Martinique) & her mother British (from Grenada)

JUNE LODGE: her father Jamaican & her mother British

ANNABELLA LWIN (BOW WOW WOW): her father Burmese (Myanmar) & her mother English

MEL & KIM: their father Jamaican & their mother British

MARIA MENA: her father Afro-Nicaraguan & her mother Norwegian

NICKI MINAJ: her father Indo-Afro Trinidadian & her mother Afro-Trinidadian.

SAMANTHA MUMBA: her father Zambian & her mother Irish

MYA: her father Afro-American & her mother Italian-American

HEATHER NOVA: her father from Bermuda & her mother Canadian

OCEANA: her father from Martinique & her mother German

RIHANNA: her father is Barbadian-Irish & her mother Afro-Guyanese

BIC RUNGA: her father Maori & her mother Chinese Malaysian

NICOLE SCHERZINGER (THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS): her father Filipino & Her mother Hawaiian Ukrainian.

SADE ADU (SADE) : her father Nigerian & her mother British

SHAKIRA (Marianna Hansen): her father Lebanese & her mother Colombian

SHAYA: her father Danish & her mother Guyanese of Greenlandic & Indian descent.

TANITA TIKARAM: her father of Indo-Fiji origin & her mother Malaysian

VANITY (VANITY 6 / PRINCE): her father Afro-Canadian & her mother German-Canadian

RAMONA WULF (SILVER CONVENTION): her father an African American soldier & her mother German

YAZZ: her father Jamaican & her mother British

also see (multiethnic / interethnic):

CHRISTINA AGUILERA: her father from Ecuador & her mother of Irish-American origin

TATYANA ALI: her father from Trinidad & her mother Afro-Panamanian

ANASTACIA: her father German-American & her mother Irish-American

JOAN BAEZ: her father Mexican & her mother Scottish (British)

BEYONCE: her father is African American & her mother is of Louisiana Creole descent (African, Native American, French & Irish ancestry)

FOXY BROWN: her father half Afro-Trinadadian, half Chinese & her mother Afro Trinidadian

IRENE CARA: her father an Afro-Puerto Rican & her mother a French American of Cuban origin

NATHALIE CARDONE: her father Sicilian & her mother Spanish

SARAH CONNOR: her father is American-German & her mother is of Scottish-Irish origin

ANNA DOMINO: her father American (US) & her mother Canadian

FRIDA (ABBA): her father German & her mother Norwegian

ISHTAR: her father Moroccan Jewish & her mother Egyptian Jewish

JAMELIA: her father Zimbabwean & her mother Jamaican

JEWEL: her father of Swiss German origin & her mother of Irish descent

PATRICIA KAAS: her father French & her mother German

CYNDI LAUPER: her father of German Swiss descent & her mother Italian American

VANESSA MAE: her father Thai (Thailandese) & her mother Chinese

TEENA MARIE: she's of Portuguese, Italian, Irish & native American origin

CAROLINE MULLER (C.C. CATCH): her father German & her mother Dutch

EDITH PIAF: her father Norman (French) & her mother French-Italian of Moroccan descent

LINDA RONSTADT: her father Mexican-American of German descent & her mother of German, English & Dutch descent

SANDRA: her father French & her mother German

SOPHIE SOLOMON (violinist): her father is Jewish of Lithuanina Polish origin & her mother is of French descent

PRINCESS STEPHANIE OF MONACO: her father Monegasque & her mother American (US)

TRACEY ULLMAN: her father Polish & her mother British

SUZANNE VEGA: her father is of Scottish-English-Irish descent , her mother of German Swedish descent & her stepfather Puerto-Rican

MARISKA VERES (SHOCKING BLUE): her father a gypsy Hungarian violinist & her mother of French & Russian descent

PIA ZADORA: her father Italian & her mother Polish

Male Artists of interracial ancestry / descent

ANGRY ANDERSON (ROSE TATTOO): his father is Australian & his mother from Mauritius

LOU BEGA: his father is from Uganda & his mother Sicilian (Italian)

JULIAN CASABLANCAS (THE STROKES): his father is Spanish-American & his mother Danish)

CRAIG DAVID: his father black Grenadian & her mother white half-Jewish

SAMMY DAVIS JR.: his father Afro-American & his mother Latina (either Puerto-Rican or Cuban)

ZACH DE LA ROCHA (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE): his father Mexican & his mother German-Irish

RENE DIF (AQUA): his father Algerian & his mother Danish

RAYMOND EBANKS (BOMFUNK MC'S): his father Jamaican & his mother Finnish

DAVE GAHAN (DEPECHE MODE): his father Indian-Malaysian father & his mother English

MEL GAYNOR (SIMPLE MINDS / drums): his father Jamaican & his mother Afro-Brazilian

GONJASUFI (born Sumach Ecks): his father American-Ethiopian & his mother Mexican

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK: he is of British & Indian descent

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS: his father Julio Iglesias is of Galician & Andalusian (autonomous Spanish communities) but also of Cuban & Puerto Rican descent & his mother Isabel is Filipina (Philippines)

EDEN KANE: he is of Anglo-Indian origin

JAY KAY (JAMIROQUAI): his father Portuguese & his mother Jewish

LENNY KRAVITZ: his father Ukrainian jew & his mother Afro-Bahamian

PHIL LYNOTT (THIN LIZZY): his father Afro-Brazilian & his mother Irish

BOB MARLEY: his father was Jamaican of English descent & his mother Afro-Jamaican.

BRUNO MARS: his father half Puerto-Rican half Ashkenazi jew & his mother Filipino.

MIKA: his father American & his mother Lebanese

MARK MOORE (S-EXPRESS): his father English & his mother South Korean

HUEY MORGAN (FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS): he's half Puerto Rican half Irish

NE-YO: his father Afro-American & his mother Afro/Chinese-American

TONY ORLANDO (DAWN): his father Hellenic (Greek) American & his mother Puerto Rican

PAPA DEE: his father from Ghana & his mother Swedish

PLASTIC BERTRAND: his father French & his mother Ukrainian

ROB PILATUS (MILLI VANILLI): his father African American & his mother German

CLIFF RICHARD: his parents were of Anglo Indian descent (Eurasian)

DOUG ROBB (HOOBASTANK): his father Scottish & his mother Japanese

PETER SARSTEDT: just as his brother Eden Kane, he is also of Anglo-Indian origin

TIM SIMENON (BOMB THE BASS): his parents are Malaysian & Scottish

CAT STEVENS: his father Hellenic (Greek) Cypriot & his mother Swedish

STROMAE: his father from Rwanda & his mother Belgian

DAVID USHER: his father is Jewish Canadian & his mother Thai-Chinese

EDDIE VAN HALEN (VAN HALEN / guitar): his father Dutch & his mother Indonesian

FRANK ZAPPA: his father was of Hellenic (Greek) & Arab descent & his mother of Italian & French

also see (multiethnic / interethnic):

RICCARDO COCCIANTE: his father Italian & his mother French

LEONARD COHEN: his father Polish-Canadian Jew & his mother Lithuanian Jew

ANTONY COSTA (BLUE): his father Hellenic (Greek) Cypriot & his mother Jewish

MICHAEL CRETU: his father Romanian & his mother of Austrian descent

DANIEL (Eurovision Song Entry for Yugoslavia in 1983): his father from Montenegro & his mother Belgian

JOE DASSIN: his father Jules was an American Jew of Russian descent & his mother Hungarian)

GAZEBO (PAUL MAZZOLINI): his father Italian & his mother American

CHRIS ISAAK: his father German-American & his mother Italian

ALEX KAPRANOS (FRANZ FERDINAND): his father Hellenas (Greek) & his mother English

MARK KNOPFLER (DIRE STRAITS): his father Hungarian Jew & his mother English

TOMMY LEE (MOTLEY CRUE): his father Welsh American & his mother Hellenic (Greek)

MALCOLM McLAREN: his father English & his mother of Portguese Jew descent

LUIS MIGUEL: his father Spanish & his mother Italian

CHRIS REA: his father Italian & his mother Irish

DAN REED (DAN REED NETWORK): his father German & his mother Hawaiian

TOM WAITS: his father of Scots Irish descent & his mother Norwegian American

Artists of any kind of American-Indian origin (Native American)

TORI AMOS (her mother half Cherokee & her Scottish father a methodist priest)

ASHANTI (Born to a father of black, Filipino, Chinese, Irish and Sioux Indian heritage and a African American, Puerto Rician, and Cherokee Indian mother)

JAMES BROWN (his father's father was Cherokee)

BELINDA CARLISLE (her American-Indian father left Belinda and her mother when she was 5)

CHER (her father Armenian & her mother of Cherokee , English & French descent)

RITA COOLIDGE (her father a Cherokee preacher & her mother a Cherokee with Scottish blood)

TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY (Navajo blood runs in his vains)

WILLY DeVILLE (he is of Basque, Irish & Pequot Indian descent)

CRYSTAL GAYLE (she's of Tsalagi (Cherokee) origin)

JIMI HENDRIX (his grandmother was a fullblooded Cherokee)

DEBORA IYALL (ROMEO VOID): Cowlitz native American

ANTHONY KIEDIS (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS): his father Lithuanian-American & his mother of Greek, Dutch, English, Irish, French & Mohican ancestry)

EARTHA KITT (her mother was a black Cherokee)

WAYNE NEWTON (his father Irish Powhatan & his mother of German Cherokee ancestry)

TOM PETTY (his grandmother was Cherokee)

ROBBIE ROBERTSON (THE BAND): Jewish father & Mohawk mother

BUFFY ST. MARIE (her parents were Cree)

TABOO (BLACK EYED PEAS) (his father Shoshone & his mother Dakota Sioux)

TINA TURNER (she's got Navajo & Cherokee blood in her vains)

SHANIA TWAIN (she grew up with an Ojibway step-father)

RITCHIE VALENS (he was of Mexican-Indian origin)

also see:

AALIYAH

AARON NEVILLE

ANDRE 3.000 (OUTKAST)

TONY CAREY (RAINBOW, PLANET P)

ELISA FIORILLO

ELVIS PRESLEY (his maternal great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was Cherokee Indian)

ROZONDA THOMAS (TLC)

TIONNE WATKINS (TLC)

and bands such as:

LOS INDIOS TABAJARAS (BRAZIL)

REDBONE (USA)

Artists of any kind of Afr0-American & Creole origin

BEYONCE

ICE-T

SHEILA E. (hit: A Love Bizarre, 1985)

Interracial acts

ALL SAINTS

ANIMAL NIGHTLIFE

AVERAGE WHITE BAND (hit: Pick Up The Pieces, 1974)

BAZUKA

BEAT (AKA ENGLISH BEAT)

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE (hit: E=MC2, 1986)

BIG COUNTRY

BLACK EYED PEAS

BLOC PARTY

BLUE

BRAND NEW HEAVIES

BREAKFAST CLUB (hit: Right On Track, 1987)

BRILLIANT (hit: Love Is War, 1986)

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

ERIC BURDON & WAR

CAN (Germans & Japanese)

CAPPELLA

CHAKACHAS, THE (hit: Jungle Fever, 1972)

CHAMPAIGN (hit: How 'Bout Us, 1981)

CHARLES & EDDIE (hit: Would I Lie To You, 1992)

CHRISTIANS, THE (biggest hit: Words, 1989)

JOHNNY CLEGG & (JULUKA / SAVUKA)

COLOR ME BADD (hits: I Wanna Sex You Up / I Adore Mi Amor, 1991)

CORNERSHOP (hit: Brimful Of Asha, 1997)

CULTURE CLUB

CULTURED PEARLS (hit: Just To Let You Know, 1997)

DAZZ BAND (hit: Let It Whip, 1982)

DEEE-LITE (hit: Groove Is In The Heart, 1990)

DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY (hit: Television, The Drug Of The Nation, 1991)

DREAM THEATER

DRUM THEATRE

ELLIS, BEGGS & HOWARD (hit: Big Bubbles, No Troubles, 1988)

ETERNAL

FAITHLESS

FOUNDATIONS, THE

FUN BOY THREE

GENERAL PUBLIC (hit: Tenderness, 1984)

GONZALEZ (hit: Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet, 1979)

GUNS N' ROSES

HEATWAVE (hit: Boogie Nights, 1977)

I-LEVEL

JIMMY JAMES & THE VAGABONDS (hits: I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me, 1976 / Now Is The Time, 1976)

JO BOXERS (hit: Just Got Lucky, 1983)

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS

HOT CHOCOLATE

KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND

KIZ (european hit: Die Sennerin Vom Koenigsee, 1982)

LATIN QUARTER (hit: Radio Africa, 1986)

LINX (hit: So This Is Romance, 1981)

LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY

LIMIT, THE (hits: She's So Divine, 1982 / Say Yeah, 1984)

LONDON BOYS (hits: London Nights / Requiem, 1989)

LONDONBEAT

MARY JANE GIRLS (hits: All Night Long, 1983 / In My House, 1985)

MASSIVE ATTACK

MORCHEEBA

NO DOUBT
OCEAN COLOUR SCENE

OUTLANDISH (hit: Aicha, 2002)

QUEEN

PEPSI & SHIRLEY

POP TOPS, THE (hit: Mamy Blue, 1971)

PRETENDERS, THE

PRODIGY

PUSSYCAT DOLLS

SADE

SANTANA

SAVAGE PROGRESS (hit: My Soul Unwraps Tonight, 1984)

SELECTER, THE (hits: On My Radio, 1979 / Three Minute Hero, 1980)

SHAKATAK

SIMPLY RED

SKUNK ANANSIE

SLY FOX (hit: Como Tu Te Llama, 1985)

SPECIALS (biggest hit: Ghost Town, 1981)

SPICE GIRLS

STYLE COUNCIL

SOUND OF SEDUCTION (hit: Until I'm Satified, 1995)

SUGABABES

SYSTEM (You Are In My System, 1983 / Don't Disturb This Groove, 1987)

SWEET SENSATION (hit: Sad Sweet Dreamer, 1974)

THOMPSON TWINS
THREE DOG NIGHT

TOWER OF POWER

TRIUMVIRAT

UB40

VILLAGE PEOPLE

YOUNG DISCIPLES

and

BAND AID

FERRY AID

USA FOR AFRICA etc

Multi or interethnic bands:

BIG SLEEP (Official Site)

BODYROCKERS

DAF (DEUTSCH AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT)

GARBAGE

HOOBASTANK

HOUSE OF PAIN

LOS BRAVOS

M.S.G. (McAuley Schenker Group)

THE OTHER ONES

PLANET P

REAMONN

SLAYER

STEPPENWOLF

STEREOLAB

TITO & TARANTULA

Collaborations of white producers & black performers:

BAD BOYS BLUE

BLACK BOX

BONEY M

C&C MUSIC FACTORY

CULTURE BEAT

ERUPTION

KANO

LA BOUCHE

MILLI VANILLI

MR. PRESIDENT

OTTAWAN

ROB'N'RAZ

SNAP!

TECHNOTRONIC

2 UNLIMITED

also in this category from the interracial acts list:

CAPPELLA

LONDON BOYS

Special case:

WAS (NOT WAS)

Anti - Racist songs: Songs with remarks on any kind of racist behaviour or messages of racial tolerance

A Change Is Gonna Come-SAM COOKE (1964)

Biko-PETER GABRIEL (1980), ROBERT WYATT (1984)

Black & White-THREE DOG NIGHT (1972)

Black Or White-MICHAEL JACKSON (1991)

Black Stations / White Stations-M+M / stands for MARTHA & THE MUFFINS (1984)

Brother Louie-HOT CHOCOLATE (1973), THE STORIES (1973)

Colours-PHIL COLLINS (1989)

The Dead Heart-MIDNIGHT OIL (1986 / 1988)

Ebony & Ivory-PAUL McCARTNEY & STEVIE WONDER (1982)

Enough Is Enough-CHUMBAWAMBA (1993)

Every Kinda People-ROBERT PALMER (1978 / whether yellow, black or white, each & every man's the same inside)

Everyday People-SLY & THE FAMILY STONE (1968)

Fight The Power-PUBLIC ENEMY (1989)

Free Nelson Mandela-THE SPECIAL AKA (1984)

Free Your Mind- EN VOGUE (1992)

Fuck You-LILY ALLEN (2009)

Ghostdancing-SIMPLE MINDS (1986)

Gimme Hope Jo'anna-EDDY GRANT (1988)

Half-Breed-CHER (1973)

Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll-GARLAND JEFFREYS (1991)

Hurricane-BOB DYLAN (1975 / "don't forget that you are white")

I Shot The Sheriff-BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS (1973), ERIC CLAPTON (1974)

Ich Bin Ein Auslander-POP WILL EAT ITSELF (1994)

Ideal World-THE CHRISTIANS (1987 / in my real world it matters not about the colour of your skin)

Imagine-JOHN LENNON (1971)

Juxtaposed With U-SUPER FURRY ANIMALS (2001 / you 've got to tolerate all those people that you hate, I'm not in love with you but I won't hold that against you)

Mr. Cab Driver-LENNY KRAVITZ (1989)

Original Sin-INXS (1984 / dream on white boy, dream on black girl and wake up to a brand new day to find your dreams have washed away)

People Are People-DEPECHE MODE (1984)

Racist Friend-THE SPECIALS (1983)

Say It Loud (I'm Black & I'm Proud)-JAMES BROWN (1968)

Strange Fruit-BILLIE HOLIDAY (1939), UB40 (1980)

Sun City-ARTIST UNITED AGAINST APATHEID (1985) / 23 million can't vote because they're black)

They Don't Care About Us-MICHAEL JACKSON (1995)

(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang-HEAVEN 17 (1981 / evil men with racist views spreading all across the land)

What's Going On-MARVIN GAYE (1970)

Why Can't We Live Together-TIMMY THOMAS (1972), SADE (1984 / no matter what colour, you're still my brother)

also interpreted "racially":

Respect (1967, originally by Otis Redding) / Think (1968)-ARETHA FRANKLIN

The "Other Side" of racism

Dreadlock Holiday-10cc (1978)

Play That Funky Music-WILD CHERRY (1976), VANILLA ICE (1990)

White America-EMINEM (2002)

Interesting Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_against_racism_and_xenophobia

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/arts/race_songs.html