Cassie Ventura Trivia
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Birth name: Casandra Ventura
Date of birth: August 26, 1986
Place of birth: New London, Connecticut, USA
Nickname: Cassie
Height: 5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Ventura was born in New London, Connecticut.
- Her father is Filipino and her mother is of African-American and Mexican descent.
- Her father is Filipino and her mother is of African-American descent.
- She is of Filipino, Mexican, African-American and West Indian descent.
- She attended the preparatory Williams School on the Connecticut College campus in New London, graduating in 2004.
- Played one of the dwarves in her private school’s stage production of “Snow White.”
- She has a brother.
- Began modeling at age 14 and was represented by Wilhelmina modeling agency until she decided to quit the field.
- Signed with Diddy’s record label Bad Boy Recordings.
- On her official journal, she admit her performances have been “pretty terrible” but states she is “still getting over stage fright”.
- She has been romantically linked to her producer, Ryan Leslie.
- Her favorite movie is “Antwone Fisher” (2002).
- Idolizes Janet Jackson.
- Got selected by Missy Elliot as the face of her Adidas Respect M.E. clothing line.
- She is an American R&B, pop, hip hop singer and former fashion model.
- Considers Prince’s “Darling Nikki” as her favorite song.
- Her father is Filipino and her mother is African-American.
- Cassie was a fashion model for the Wilhelmina modelling agency through which she worked with Adidas, Complex magazine and Abercrombie & Fitch campaigns, among others.
- As early as 2002, she modeled for local department stores, the Delia’s fashion catalogue and the popular magazine Seventeen.
- Ditto” is planned to be released as Cassie’s third single.
- Crowned the “Princess of NextSelection” by the producer behind the brand, Ryan Leslie.
- Once modeled for Adidas, Abercrombie & Fitch, also Clean & Clear.
- “Me & U” reached #3 in the United States.
- Cassie is trilingual, being fluent in English and conversational in Tagalog and Spanish.
- Was featured in the music video of Mario’s “Here I Go Again.”
- Cassie found much popularity with the help of the website MySpace where she has a waiting list of thousands of friends.
- These events fueled bloggers and the internet community to scandalize Cassie and petitions were started, calling for her recording contract to be cancelled.
- The Bad Boy remix version of her single, “Me & U”, featured Diddy and Yung Joc.
- Has 7 tattoos.
- In September, Cassie claimed that she is no longer a model because her agency told her to lose weight. She said she was furious and decided to quit modeling, instead focusing fulltime on her music career.
- Her first recorded song was “Kiss Me”, a song that featured the producer, Ryan Leslie, as a birthday present for her mother.
- Cassie’s vocal ability has been questioned after a pair of performances on MTV’s “TRL” and BET’s “106 and Park”. On TRL, she seemingly was lip-synching her song. On 106 and Park, she sang very low on the show and her background singers overshadowed her voice.
- Has released the new music video to her second single “Long Way 2 Go”.
- Became the model for Target department store which put her picture on its prime billboard space in Times Square.
- Performed on “106 and Park: Top Ten Live” with Yung Joc.
- Rumors have it that there is a unrated remix version of her “Me and U” video.
- Attended the preparatory Williams School on the Connecticut College campus in New London, graduating in 2004.
- Has appeared in Complex magazine and Seventeen.
- In April 2009, Cassie revealed that she had shaved all of the hair on the right side of her head.
