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famousfilipinos:

Nia Peeples - FAME! I’m gonna live forever…I’m gonna learn how to fly - high! BEST. movie/show. EVER.
Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples (born December 10, 1961 in Hollywood, California) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Nicole Chapman on the hit 1980s television series Fame. Currently, she portrays Karen Taylor Winters on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Her maternal grandparents are both immigrants from the Philippines. Her father has Scottish, Irish, English, Native American and Italian ancestry. Her mother is of Filipino, German and Spanish descent.

Nia Peeples - FAME! I’m gonna live forever…I’m gonna learn how to fly - high! BEST. movie/show. EVER.

Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples (born December 10, 1961 in Hollywood, California) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Nicole Chapman on the hit 1980s television series Fame. Currently, she portrays Karen Taylor Winters on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Her maternal grandparents are both immigrants from the Philippines. Her father has Scottish, Irish, English, Native American and Italian ancestry. Her mother is of Filipino, German and Spanish descent.

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JABBAWOCKEEZ - WINNERS of the 1st season of America’s Best Dance Crew. ROCKIN dance crew. Definitely need to watch.

3 members are filipino: (click on this photo for more info on MTV)

Rynan Shawn Paguio, 26yo from San Diego, CA

Phil Tayag, 23yo from Sacramento, CA

Chris Gatdula, 26yo fro San Diego, CA

(Rest of the members deserving due credit are Jeff Nguyen, Ben Chung, and Kevin Brewer)

Click here to see their GENIUS at work: (they start at 12:20 and groove for about 2 min)

http://www.mtv.com/videos/americas-best-dance-crew-ep-5-thriller/1582476/playlist.jhtml

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Summer Lyn Glau (born July 24, 1981) is an American dancer and actress, known for playing River Tam in the short-lived science fiction series Firefly and follow-up movie Serenity, and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Glau was born in San Antonio, Texas. She is of Scotch-Irish and German descent.

This is another one who hasn’t mentioned any Asian roots…BUT I think she’s GOT to be part Asian.

Nicole Scherzinger

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Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger^[1] (also known as Nicole Kea; born June 29, 1978) is an American pop singer, songwriter, dancer, model, and occasional actress best known as the lead vocalist for the Pussycat Dolls.^[1] She took the surname Scherzinger when she was adopted by her stepfather.

Scherzinger was born in Honolulu to a Filipino father and an Hawaiian/Russian mother.^[2] Her mother Rosemary was eighteen at the time of Scherzinger’s birth and lived in an inner city neighborhood and separated from her father when she was a baby.

Cassie

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Cassandra Ventura (born August 26, 1986), known by her stage name Cassie, is an American model, R&B and pop “singer”-songwriter, dancer, actress and occasional music video actress. She is best known for her single “Me & U” , which became a hit in 2006.

Cassie was born in New London, Connecticut, to a Filipino father and an African American/Mexican/WestIndian mother which she confirmed in August/September 08’ issue of Complex magazine.

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Nia Peeples - FAME! I’m gonna live forever…I’m gonna learn how to fly - high! BEST. movie/show. EVER.

Nicole Scherzinger

Cassie