Kenya Grace

Birth Name: Kenya Grace Johnson

Place of Birth: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa (likely)

Date of Birth: 9 May, 1998

Ethnicity: English, as well as Afrikaner [Belgian, Czech, Dutch, German, French, more distant Italian, Swiss, Danish, Tamil, Ethiopian, Indonesian, and Angolan], Scottish, and Cornish

Kenya Grace is a South African-born English singer, songwriter, and record producer. She is known for her viral single “Strangers.”

Her father is English. Her mother is South African. She was raised in Chandler’s Ford, near Southampton.

Kenya’s maternal grandfather was the son of William Henry Prince and Phyllis Katherine Blick. He was born in Benoni. William was born in Doornfontein, Randfontein, Transvaal, to English parents, Herbert Richard Prince, from Downton, Wiltshire; and Lily Wardle, from Old Hill, Staffordshire. Kenya’s great-grandmother Phyllis was born in Witbank, Transvaal. Her father, Victor Robert Docking, was the son of William Ernest John Docking, who was from Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and also had Cornish ancestry; and of Henrietta Josephine DeLa Riviere, whose own father was French, and whose own mother was an Afrikaner, of Belgian, Czech, Dutch, German, French, and more distant Italian, Swiss, Danish, Tamil, Ethiopian, Indonesian, and Angolan, ancestry. Phyllis’ mother, Kenya’s great-great-grandmother, was Johanna Elizabeth Botha, who was an Afrikaner.

Kenya’s maternal grandmother was surnamed Hawkins.