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Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 - Vanessa Bruno - Backstage

Ayọ in 2010, photo by Prphotos.com

Birth Name: Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin

Place of Birth: Frechen, Germany

Date of Birth: 14 September, 1980

Ethnicity:
*Yoruba Nigerian (father)
*Romani (mother)

Ayọ is a Nigerian and German singer, songwriter, and actress. She was born in Frechen, near Cologne, Germany, to a Yoruba Nigerian father from the Ondo State, and a Romani mother who was born in Romania.

She considers herself an “AfroGyspy.”

She has three children, including two with her former husband, German/Sierra Leone singer Patrice Bart-Williams.

Source: http://www.deutschlandfunk.de (in German)

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