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Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

My features are completely ethnic.

I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.