Singer Tom Jones has revealed he will undergo DNA testing to find out whether or not if he has black ancestry, as he claims he's been mistaken for being black several times over many years.
"When I first came to America, people who had heard me sing on the radio would be surprised that I was white when they saw me," the Welsh singer said in a recent interview with The Times of London. "Because of my hair, a lot of black people still tell me I'm just passing as white."
The 75-year-old singer, who was born to an English father and a mother who had both English and Welsh ethnicities, also revealed that his mother had similar questions when she gave birth to him.
"When I was born, my mother came out in big dark patches all over her body. They asked if she had any black blood and she said she didn't know," he said, according to the New York Daily News.
Jones also opened up about his status as a sex symbol, saying that he "can never predict when the knickers are going to get thrown," according to People.
"If it's during an up-tempo song, fine. But then I'll be singing 'The Green, Green Grass of Home' and they'll start flying. You think, 'My God, I'm singing about a man in jail dreaming about home and I've got a pair of knickers on my head.' It gets out of hand."
