Who Is Zhavia Ward's Mom, Bobbi Jo Black? Plus, Her Ethnicity and Net Worth

June 2024 · 4 minute read

Zhavia Ward is the music celebrity on everybody's thoughts ever since her "A Whole New World" duvet was launched. But lovers wish to the young singer ethnicity, and who her mother, Bobbi Jo Black is. Find out.

If you are as excited as we are for the impending reside action remake of Aladdin, likelihood is that you've heard Zayn Malik's new quilt of "A Whole New World" featuring Zhavia Ward singing the a part of Jasmine. And if you have not, we strongly suggest you give it a listen — it's going to ship chills down your backbone. 

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And even supposing Zayn, 26, has grow to be something of a family title ever since he gained The X Factor again in 2010 and joined One Direction, his co-star Zhavia, 18, is somewhat newer on the block and other folks have many questions about her, her ethnicity, net worth and who her mom, Bobbi Jo Black, is. 

Keep studying for the answers to those questions and extra.

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So, who is Bobbi Jo Black?

Like Zayn, Zhavia rose to reputation due to a contest show, FOX's The Four: Battle for Stardom. But ahead of that, her mother had something of a profession in music of her own. You won't catch her singing R&B like her daughter, then again. Instead, Bobbi used to be a member of Xenoterra, a metal band.

"Xenoterra is metal for the 21st century" is how the now-defunct band band described themselves, adding that their sound is "a harmonious symbiosis of metal and electronic." So it kind of feels that music runs in Zhavia's genes. But now that Bobbi Jo is not in the band, she devotes her time to influencing on Instagram and running a hair salon.

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Bobbi Jo does Zhavia's dreads.

You've most likely noticed Zhavia's long blonde dreads in her breakout music video, and it seems her mother is her hair stylist. Though it's not clear whether Bobbi Jo still does dreads, she ran a salon known as Hot Head Dreads that she nonetheless follows on Instagram.

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But the truth that dreads is Zhavia's glance of choice is not everybody's cup of tea, to position it lightly. "The fact that people like Zhavia and f---ing KENDALL and Gigi get to wear sh--ty looking dreads and it's 'fashion' but then everyday black women are getting called unprofessional for well-kept dreads is just so not right," one particular person wrote on Twitter.

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What's Zhavia's actual title and race/ethnicity?

Well, it makes sense that people are so incensed via Zhavia's style and likening it to cultural appropriation for the reason that rising singer, born Carisa Zhavia Vercetti, is American by way of nationality (her last identify suggests Italian ancestry), and white through race. Or, as Answers Africa so humorously places it, Zhavia "has her roots with the whites."

Her ethnic-sounding title and the dreads in point of fact appear to have thrown many fanatics off. The young vocalist additionally has a sister, Poiema Victoria, an Instagram influencer who often models for their mom. 

Is Zhavia unmarried or taken? Plus, what is her net worth? 

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Though her career is also only getting started, the Los Angeles native is already worth an impressive $Four million. Which is superior because she will get to shuttle the arena and proportion the studies with her Mexican and Nigerian boyfriend, Emmanuel Lateju.

Just ultimate week, the couple visited the Egyptian pyramids, got to trip on camels, and even noticed Zhavia's picture and tour dates in an area Egyptian billboard. 

We be expecting we're going to be seeing a lot more of this blonde self-described "rapper" and listening to her impressive vocals on extra songs one day. After all, "A Whole New World" is already seeming like an early hit.

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