Amerie – African-American/Korean

Amerie Mi Marie Nicholson (formerly Rogers) was born to Charles Rogers, an African American father, and Mi Suk, a Korean mother. The Rogers family moved to South Korea a few months after Amerie was born, where she spent the first three years of her life. Since her father was a chief warrant officer in the United States military, the family moved around a lot, including Alaska, Texas, Virginia, and Germany.

Amerie has characterized her parents as conventional Christians who are religious and protective. On school days, she and her sister were not allowed to leave the house or use the internet. The singer studied literature at Georgetown University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a Fine Arts minor in architecture. Later on, Amerie started dating her manager, Sony music executive Lenny Nicholson, in 2004 and welcomed their first child, a son, on May 15, 2018.