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Singer Phoebe Snow, a New Jersey native, was recently named one of that state's great black musicians by a local magazine and she has decided to take a DNA test to prove her ethnicity once and for all.
The 57-year-old bluesy folk songstress best known for her seventies classic "Poetry Man," was named along with Stevie Wonder, George Benson and Sean 'Diddy' Combs as one of the state's "black music industry greats."
Snow, who is Jewish, says she's always faced questions about her ethnicity. Regarding the article, she recently told PageSix, "I was peeing in my pants laughing (at the magazine). I was like, this is fantastic to be in such great company."
While she's flattered, Snow has determined it's time to put the question of her ethnicity to rest the scientific way.
"Believe me, people have been asking me about this since I started in the recording industry," Snow said. "My mom was the whitest, alabaster-skinned person you can imagine, but who knows what went on four generations ago? So this mitochondrial DNA test should settle it."
