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Old 2nd February 2015, 07:09 PM
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Friendly reminder: Namie is 1/4 Italian.
That's a misconception though. Namie's father was European but Namie's mother (I think it was her talking) said she didn't know or remember.

https://molybdenumstudios.wordpress....g/namie-amuro/

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It used to be written in all profiles and magazines back in the 1990’s, but Emiko Taira herself (Namie’s mother) stated that she never known which origin was her father. She only knew he was European, she said “maybe English or Italian”. I think Namie’s company thought that Italian was fashionable and exotic at the time and decided to go for it. The truth is that Namie only know she’s not 100% Okinawaian. Her father may also have been an American of European decent, that’s what a few Japanese website write.

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