Birth Name: Vered Benami
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: October 25, 1986
Ethnicity:
*Israeli Jewish (father)
*German, some English and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) (mother)
Didi Benami is an American singer-songwriter. She placed tenth on the ninth season of American Idol (2010). Her father is an Israeli Jewish immigrant. Her mother, who is American-born, is of three quarters German and one quarter English and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) ancestry. Did was raised Jewish.
Didi’s maternal grandparents are Charles Bulow Pflanze (the son of Otto Paul Pflanze and Katrine Mills) and Thea Schlier (the daughter of Theodore Schlier and Margaret Kratz). Otto was of German descent. Katrine had English and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) ancestry. Theodore was born in Herriden, Germany. Margaret was born in Sachsen, Germany.
Source: Genealogy of Didi Benami (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://records.ancestry.com
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