Birth Name: Christopher Stephen Botti
Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon
Date of Birth: October 12, 1962
Ethnicity:
*Italian (father)
*English and/or Scottish (mother)
Chris Botti is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. He won a Grammy Award in 2013.
His mother, Shirley Louise Stewart, is a pianist, and his father, Lido Botti, is an Italian teacher.
Chris’s paternal grandparents were Livia Maria and Serafino Botti. They were both born in Montevarchi, Province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, and immigrated in 1922.
Chris’s maternal grandparents were Kathleen S. and Warren C. Stewart (the son of John Franklin Stewart and Ella F.).
Sources: Chris’s father on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCSM-LDL
Obituary of Chris’s father – http://obits.oregonlive.com
Chris’s mother on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Chris’s maternal grandfather, Warren C. Stewart, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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