Both of Rachel Weisz’s parents are Jewish refugees.
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Regina Spektor originally fled Soviet Russia at the age of nine and now lives in New York.
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Gloria Estefan’s father was a Cuban refugee.
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Mika fled Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war for Europe.
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Wyclef Jean named his band “The Fugees” after his experience being a refugee from Haiti.
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M.I.A. was the daughter of a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee family.
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Bob Marley left Jamaica and moved to Miami after being shot during political violence.
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Rita Ora’s family fled Kosovo as a child and immigrated to the U.K.
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Gene Simmons’s mother, Flora Klein, was a Holocaust survivor.
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Jackie Chan escaped to the United States from Hong Kong after receiving death threats by the Triads.
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Jerry Springer’s parents were Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi Germany.
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