Ariana Grande was born on June 26, 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida, daughter of Joan, owner of a company that produces security alarms for the Navy, and Edward, owner of a graphic design company. The surname Grande (of Italian origin), in reality, is that of the mother, while that of the father is Butera. At the age of four Ariana is chosen by Nickelodeon to take part in the show “All that”. From that moment on, Ariana approached dance, acting, singing and entertainment in general. After conquering her first important role in Annie, a children’s theatre company, at the age of eight, she dedicated herself to singing under the influence of Gloria Estefan. at nine, Ariana Grande saw her parents separate, while at ten, she helped found the Kids Who Care group, in South Florida, with which she performed on numerous occasions for charity. In 2007 alone, for example, the group earned more than five hundred thousand dollars. Early talent
When she was fifteen years old, the Grande took the stage on Broadway for the musical “13”, playing the role of Charlotte. Thanks to this performance she won the prize of the Asociaciòn Nacional de Teatro Juvenil as best actress. Although she enrolled in the North Broward Preparatory School, she stopped attending it, continuing to study with the support of private teachers. 2009 saw the girl start recording and publishing on her youtube channel covers of music by her favorite singers. In the meantime she sings in several symphony orchestras, including the South Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, as
The following year he took part, for the musical “Cuba Libra” conceived and produced by Desmond Child, in the conception of the character of Miriam, who he then interpreted. Then he appears in the sit-com “Victorious” as Cat Valentine.
In the summer of 2011, at the release of the soundtrack of the show in which he is the protagonist of a duet alongside Elizabeth Gillies, appears on the cover of “Dream Magazine”, and then lend his voice to the series “Winx Club”, proposed by Nickelodeon, dubbing the character of Princess Diaspro. later publishes “Put your hearts up”, his first single, whose video clip is initially published in Vevo but then deleted because of the request of Ariana Grande herself, who is not satisfied with his performance of the show. After announcing the end of “Victorius”, he announced that he would take part in “Sam & Cat” reprising the role he had in the previous show, famous duets.later, in “A snow white Christmas”, production of Pasadena Playhouse, he played the character of Snow White starring alongside Neil Patrick Harris and Charlene Tilton. Then she duets with Mika in the song “Popular song”, with Whitney Houston in “I believe in you and me” and with Mariah Carey in “All I want for Christmas is you” and “Emotions”, and in 2013 Ariana Grande completes “Yours truly”, her first album of unreleased songs, which she worked on in the previous three years. The album was released on the Republic Records label in September, and contains among other things “The way”, the first single extracted, in which Ariana duets with Mac Miller. it became a platinum record in the U.S. and a gold record in Australia, the single is followed by “Baby I”; the album only in the first week sells almost 140,000 copies, a result thanks to which Grande becomes the first woman to take first place in the ranking of the best-selling records with her debut work.In the meantime the American artist appears in an adaptation of “Swindle” alongside Jennette McCurdy, who like her is the protagonist of “Sam & Cat”, and then go on stage at the “Mtv Video Music Awards” and perform at “Dancing with the stars” alongside Mika. In 2014 Ariana collaborated with Chris Brown on the song “Don’t be gone too long”, included in the disc “X”, whose release was postponed due to the arrest of the singer. La Grande, meanwhile, released the first single, “Problem”, from her second studio album, entitled “My Everything”.
The piece, in which she duets with rapper Iggy Azalea, won her the “Mtv Video Music Awards” for the best pop video, and was followed by “Break free”, the second single, made with the collaboration of DJ Zedd. In summer the Grande sang together with rapper Nicki Minaj and Jessie J for the single “Bang bang”, followed by the singles “Best mistake” and “Love me harder”, the latter created with the Canadian The Weeknd. in February 2015 the singer, after the release of the single “One last time”, embarked on his first solo world tour, The Honeymoon Tour. He then set to work on his third album, before acting in “Scream queens”, a horror TV series in which he plays a nineteen-year-old student named Sophie.On October 30th her new album, entitled “Focus”, was released and at the same time her first fragrance, called ARI by Ariana, was put on the market. after a duet with Andrea Bocelli in the song “E più ti penso”, she announced the marketing of the second fragrance that bears her name, Frankie by Ariana Grande. He then participated as a guest star in the film “Zoolander 2”.In March 2016 the third album “Dangerous woman” was released, with the single of the same name followed by the songs “Be alright” and “Let me love you”. Then she sings the song “Faith” together with Stevie Wonder: the song is part of the soundtrack of the animated film “Sing”.In 2017 the new tour around the world, The dangerous woman Tour, begins: the name of the tour turns out to be tragically ironic on the evening of May 22, when at the end of his concert held in Great Britain in Manchester there is a terrorist attack carried out by a suicide bomber, which causes more than twenty deaths and dozens of injuries. Ariana, however, remains unharmed. The international dismay on the occasion is particularly high because of the young age of the victims.
Discography
2013 – Yours Truly
2014 – My Everything
2016 – Dangerous Woman
2018 – Sweetener
2019 – Thank U, Next
