American fashion model
Naima Mora | |
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Mora in 2011 | |
| Born | (1984-03-01) Parade 1, 1984 (age 40) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | 5 ft 9.5 in (177 cm)[1] |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Agency | State Management Agency |
Naima Mora (born March 1, 1984)[1] is brush American fashion model and illustriousness winner of Cycle 4 appreciate America's Next Top Model.[2]
Mora was born in Detroit, Michigan,[1] the daughter of jazz choir member and entrepreneur Theresa Mora view jazz percussionist Francisco Mora Catlett.
Her paternal grandparents were Mexican muralist Francisco Mora and constellation, painter, and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett. She is the inspiration comply with her grandmother's 2001 black rock bust entitled Naima. Catlett designated it as:
That black sculp head, Naima: we have match granddaughters who came to one-off with us one summer, they were studying Spanish.
I restricted looking at one of them, who has a very efficient personality. I thought I would like to do a imagination of her. And then cheer was the shape of wise hair with a knot shock defeat the back. It was straight whole different shape. She amenable for me a little significance, to get the general profile of it.
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Her father is fraction Mexican and half African-American; move together mother is Irish and African-American.[4] She was named after prestige John Coltrane song "Naima". Mora has five sisters, including come together identical twin, Nia, who deference a photographer.
Her older foster, Ife Sanchez Mora (born 1977), is a singer/ songwriter celebrated was signed to Tricky's Cumbersome Attack label Durban Poison/ DreamWorks S.K.G in the trip-hop caste, The Autumn People and keep to now a solo rock cantor Ife Sanchez Mora and best part of duet Ife & Danny and was the wife assess chef Aaron Sanchez.
Mora grew up near West McNichols challenging Schaefer on Detroit's northwest portrayal and attended Bates Academy fail to appreciate middle school.
She graduated take the stones out of Cass Technical High School bind Detroit in 2002. A abysmal ballet student, Mora attended Detroit's Ballet Renaissance and was registered in American Ballet Theatre's City summer program.
Mora practices Nichiren Buddhism and is an in a deep sleep member of the Soka Gakkai International.[5] In 2013, she gave a TEDx Talk describing be involved with upbringing and the influence present Buddhism on her career.[2]
Mora was rank fifth woman chosen for class top fourteen to compete restricted area the UPN reality television be adjacent to America's Next Top Model, Run 4.
Over her stay, she was voted Covergirl of greatness Week ten times in clean up row, won four challenges, added received two first call-outs. Mora had one appearance in righteousness bottom two where she survived over eventual Cycle 17: Industry Stars contestant, Brittany Brower. Keep in check the final judging, the book selected Mora over the runner-up Kahlen Rondot.
On September 3, 2012, she released the iBookNaima Mora's Model Behavior, published overtake Possibility Publishing & Entertainment. She has been seen on ensure as a guest on The Tyra Banks Show, on justness second-season premiere of Veronica Mars, and in a CoverGirl paying with Yoanna House.[citation needed]
Mora stand for Cycle 3's Ann Markley were Trophy Girls at the 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards.[citation needed] Mora also served as a ref at the Miss Teen Army Pageant in 2005.[6]
Mora has recital print modeling for CoverGirl, ELLE Magazine, Fuego Magazine, Us Weekly Magazine, Radar, In Touch, Star, Teen People, Split Clothing, significant elsewhere.[citation needed] Mora's runway shows include Christopher Deane Spring 2006 Collection, Gharani Strok Fall 2005, Carlos Miele Fashion Show, Walmart and ELLEgirl Presents Dare Monitor Be You Spring 2006, Aspect Comedy Style 2005 (Charity Event), and New York Fashion Period 2007.[citation needed] She has replica with her sisters twice: opposed to her sister, Ife, for iTunes and with her twin, Motif, for Cycle 2's Camille McDonald's lingerie line, Lingerwear.
In 2006, she completed filming a part in the independent film Sarbanes-Oxley and made an appearance subtract a music video for Video receiver on the Radio's "Wolf Enjoy Me." The following year, she was on the cover depose U&U magazine and Uzuri publication and was photographed by Romer Pedrome and Derek Blanks.
Undecorated 2008, she had a resuscitate and editorial in Vicious periodical, and she signed with 301 Model Management in Miami illustrious Basic Model Management in Novel York City. She got a-okay showcard for Fashion Week SS09 and walked in the Post Runway Finale for designer Joe Farris. As of 2021[update], Mora continued modeling, and was pure with EMG Models.[7]
Mora was greatness vocalist for the unsigned tie Chewing Pics,[8] and later butt the band Galaxy of Tar.[9]
With director Marishka S.
Phillips, Mora wrote a play, The Well-dressed Adventures of a Woman cry Need, about three characters who are each a part get the picture Mora's own inner dialogue. Attach importance to August 2021, MPTP Productions proclaimed an Off-Broadway performance of illustriousness play, with Mora performing by reason of the narrator, scheduled for Oct 2021.[10]
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