My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.
My parents are Hungarian.
My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
I come from a working-class family of seven children.
I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife Julie, nee Saaling, who came from a Jewish family.
My family came from Ecuador.
Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
My father's family is German and Czech.
My parents hail from a village near Mysore.
My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.
In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
Well, you know, my grandmother actually grew up, you know, her whole family, my mom's family outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia.
I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.
I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.
My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
I am a first generation American, and my family is from Bulgaria.
My family were from Jamaica.
I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.
I was in Colorado for about 15 years but my family is all from Florida.
I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.
I grew up in Murray, Kentucky. My wife is from there, also.
