Quadron vs. Quadroon — What's the Difference?

Quadron is a Los Angeles-based Danish duo consisting of singer Coco O. and musician/producer Robin Hannibal. The group considers their genre "electronic soul music".

In the slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and hexadecaroon for one-sixteenth black.

A person having white ancestors except for one black grandparent. Used especially as a classification under certain European colonial legal systems and now considered offensive.

A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.

Of or related to quadroons.

The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

An offspring of a Mulatto and a White parent; a person who is one-quarter Black