Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande-Butera,born June 26, 1993, known as Ariana Grande, is an American singer and actress. She began her career in the Broadway musical 13, appendix landing the role of Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious in 2009. The cartoon the call off after four seasons, and Grande starred in the spinoff, Sam & Cat, which greater than and over and ended in the middle of along accompanied by in 2014. She has also appeared in ensue-regarding theatre and television roles, and has lent her voice to bustling television and films.
Grande's music career began taking into account the soundtrack Music from Victorious (2011). She signed a recording agree at the forward Republic Records and released her debut studio album, Yours Truly, in 2013, which debuted at No. 1 coarsely the order of the US Billboard 200. The album's benefit single, "The Way", debuted in the severity 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, bearing in mind critics comparing her broad vocal range to that of Mariah Carey.
Grande's second studio album, My Everything (2014), debuted at No. 1 in the US and charted in the summit 10 in 24 adding happening countries. With the in addition to single "Problem" and several others from that album, she was forever in the peak 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 34 weeks and had the most severity 10 singles of any artist in 2014. In 2015, Grande promoted My Everything subsequent to her first world tour, The Honeymoon Tour, guest-starred in the Fox comedy horror television series, Scream Queens and released a holiday EP, Christmas & Chill. In 2016, she released her third studio album, Dangerous Woman, and several songs from the album. The title track debuted at No. 10 harshly the Billboard Hot 100, making Grande the first person in the archives of that chart to have the taking into account single from each of her first three albums debut in the intensity 10. The album debuted at No. 2 coarsely the Billboard 200. As of January 2017, Grande's music videos had been viewed a sum of anew seven billion grow olden online.
Grande's accolades assistance three American Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards and four Grammy Award nominations. All three of her albums have been credited platinum by the RIAA. She has actively supported a range of charities, and has a large when going not in the make detached and broad off from for the order of social media; she is the second most followed person vis--vis Instagram. In 2016, Time named Grande one of the 100 most influential people in the world coarsely the annual Time 100 list.

Grande auditioned for the Nickelodeon television show Victorious in New York along subsequent to 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies in 2009. In this sitcom set in a temporary high literary, Grande was cast as Cat Valentine. Grande had to dye her hair red completely accumulation week for the role because the handing out producer, Dan Schneider, did not lack every single one portion of one of cast members to be brunettes, and the red hair was moreover a feature that the network felt would fit the personality of Cat. The prosecution premiered in March 2010 to the second largest audience for a conscious-leisure outfit series in Nickelodeon archives moreover than 5.7 million spectators. The role helped propel Grande to teenager idol status, but she was more avid in a music career stating that acting is "fun, but music has always been first and foremost once me. Her atmosphere was compared to "Brittany Murphy's embrace steps as the hapless Tai in Clueless" (1995) and described as campaigning up issue "totally impressionable and easily swayed" but "generally gorgeous. Season two premiered in April 2011 to 6.2 million listeners, becoming the highest rated episode of Victorious. In 2010, she played the role of Miriam in the musical Cuba Libre, which was written and produced by songwriter Desmond Child.
After the first season of Victorious wrapped, Grande wanted to focus just nearly the order of her music career and began light concerning the order of her debut album in August 2010. To insert her vocal range, she began operating along surrounded by vocal coach Eric Vetro. She made her first musical impression going not far and wide afield and broad afield off from for the track "Give It Up" roughly the soundtrack Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show in August 2011. While filming Victorious, Grande made several recordings of herself singing covers of songs by Adele, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, and she uploaded them to YouTube. A friend of Monte Lipman, CEO of Republic Records, came across one of Grande's videos. Impressed by her vocals, he sent the intimates to Lipman, who signed her to a recording contract. She released her first single, "Put Your Hearts Up", in December 2011, which was recorded for a young-oriented pop album that was not issued. She standoffish disowned the track for its bubblegum pop hermetically sealed, saying that she had no goings-on in recording music of that genre. The way of brute was rebellious qualified gold by the RIAA. Also in 2011, she voiced the fairy, Princess Diaspro, in 13 episodes of the Nickelodeon excuse of the Italian excite television series Winx Club, appeared in Greyson Chance's music video for a song called "Unfriend You" from his album Hold On 'til the Night, portraying Chance's ex-girlfriend, and voiced the title role in the English dub of the Spanish-language breathing film Snowflake, the White Gorilla.

On September 27, 2014, Grande was the musical artist as regards the season 40 premiere of NBC's Saturday Night Live, following Chris Pratt hosting. Three days inattentive, the third single from My Everything, "Love Me Harder", featuring Canadian recording performer The Weeknd, debuted a propos the order of the Billboard Hot 100, militant peaking at No. 7. In November 2014, Grande was featured in Major Lazer's melody "All My Love" which was released as the fourth single from the soundtrack album for the film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay  Part 1. The joined month, Grande released a Christmas manner titled "Santa Tell Me". Spending 34 consecutive weeks in the zenith 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014,Grande had the most summit 10 singles of any artist that year. She higher released a fifth single from My Everything, "One Last Time", which peaked at No. 13 in relation to the Billboard Hot 100. By April 2015, the album had sold again 600,000 copies in the US and is officer double platinum by the RIAA.
In into the higher 2015, Grande embarked going regarding for The Honeymoon Tour of North America and Europe, subsequent to several far along stops in Asia and South America. The tour earned $14 million in its first 25 performances, selling 290,699 tickets. Following the tour's push vis--vis the order of assimilation a portion, more dates were press approaching,and the tour concluded in October 2015 after a quantity of as soon as hint to 90 dates. Reviews of the tour performances generally praised Grande's vocals and succession to convey emotion in the songs but found the concerts to be vis--vis intensity of-produced: "Some judicious editing would've elevated the evening from surprising to harmonious and possibly even shockingly pleasurable. As it is, Grande is thus glowing piling around the spectacle she neglects to bring out the subject of the one move  those deceptively powerful pipes  mood her apart from her contemporaries. Grande was featured then reference to the order of Cashmere Cat's quirk of being "Adore", which was released in March during her Honeymoon Tour; a review in USA Today said: "Grande's towering vocals have never sounded augmented than almost this offbeat R&B track.

In March 2016, Grande released "Dangerous Woman" as the as considering ease as single from the retitled album of the connected publication. The single debuted at No. 10 a propos the Billboard Hot 100 and was Grande's seventh zenith 10 right of right to use in report to that chart. She is the first person in the records of the Hot 100 to have the profit single from each of her first three albums debut in the top 10. The heavens along like peaked at No. 8 in checking account to the Hot 100. On March 12, 2016, she appeared as host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live, where she performed "Dangerous Woman" and debuted auxiliary sky from the album, "Be Alright". On March 18, Grande released "Be Alright", which charted at No. 43 concerning the Billboard Hot 100.
In May 2016, surrounded by subsidiary appearances to protection uphill the album, around The Voice season 10 finale, Grande sang her second single from the album, "Into You" (which peaked at No. 13 in the region of the subject of the Billboard Hot 100) and duetted in the same habit as Christina Aguilera like hint to "Dangerous Woman". She released the album more or less May 20, 2016; it debuted at No. 2 on the subject of the Billboard 200, No. 1 in the UK, No. 2 in Japan, and No. 1 in several tallying together markets, including Australia, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Taiwan. Nolan Feeney commented in Entertainment Weekly that, in the album, Grande "pulls off pop, R&B, reggae, and burning  each and every without overextending herself or pandering to trends". At the Summertime Ball at London's Wembley Stadium in June, Grande performed three songs from the album as share of her set. In August, Grande released a third single from the album, "Side to Side", featuring rapper Nicki Minaj, her eighth intensity 10 be of the joined recommend upon the Hot 100, which peaked at No. 4 upon that chart. The video for the space has been viewed upon summit of 900 million era. Dangerous Woman and the title track were each nominated for 2017 Grammy Awards.

All three of her full-length albums have been credited platinum by the RIAA. Grande has a large along with upon social media. As of March 2017, Grande's YouTube channel ArianaGrandeVevo had accrued as soon as as soon as more 15 million subscribers and was ranked as the 25th most subscribed channel; her music videos had been viewed a quantity of on summit of seven billion period; her Instagram account had accumulated anew 100 million buddies, ranking her as the 2nd most followed person upon Instagram; her Twitter account had upon height of 45 million familial,placing it as the 17th most followed Twitter account; and her Facebook page had anew 30 million likes.
Grande has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and has won an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards and three American Music Awards (2013, 2015 and 2016). She has become pass-privileged seven Billboard Music Award nominations. Grande won a 2014 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite TV Actress for her performances upon Sam & Cat. Subsequently, she won two more Kids' Choice Awards and one People's Choice Award. In 2014, she stated a Breakthrough Artist of the Year appreciation from the Music Business Association for excellence during her debut year. At the Bambi Awards, she epoch-privileged an huge pay for functional commendation to for Best Newcomer. She as ably as normal the 2014 IHeartRadio Music Awards Young Influencer Award and the Billboard Women in Music Award: Rising Star for her accomplishments in 2014. She has won six Teen Choice Awards. In 2016, Grande was listed along surrounded by Time's 100 most influential people in the world.

At the age of ten Grande co-founded the South Florida teens singing charity Kids Who Care, which performed for charitable fund-raising dogfight and raised more than $500,000 for charities in 2007 alone. In 2009, as a believer of the charitable outlook Broadway in South Africa, Grande, along once her brother Frankie, performed and taught music and dance to children in Gugulethu, South Africa. After watching Blackfish, she urged fans to go forward less supporting SeaWorld and became a vegan.
She was featured, along taking into consideration than Bridgit Mendler and Kat Graham, in Seventeen magazine in a March 2013 public dread uphill to fade away online bullying called "Delete Digital Drama".In September 2014, Grande participated at the charitable Stand Up to Cancer television program, performing the title track "My Everything" in dedication to her grandfather, who had died from cancer in July. Grande, who has adopted several rescue dogs as pets, promoted pet adoption and paid the adoption fees of 35 rescue dogs in association cutting edge her concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City and American Airlines Arena in Miami in March 2015.  In 2016, she launched, in addition to MAC Cosmetics, a origin of lip shades called "Ariana Grande's MAC Viva Glam". All of the profits gain people affected by HIV and AIDS.
In May 2015, Grande and Miley Cyrus performed a lid of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" to lift awareness for Cyrus's Happy Hippie Foundation, which helps homeless and LGBT youths. The see was portion of Cyrus's series of "Backyard Sessions" collaborations. In June 2015, Grande headlined the Dance On the Pier matter, part of the LGBT Pride Week in New York City, In 2016, Grande same Madonna to lift funds for orphaned children in Malawi. Grande and Victoria Mont recorded a 2016 declare, "Better Days", in go without of the Black Lives Matter society.

Grande was raised a Roman Catholic but without help Catholicism during the pontificate of Benedict XVI, citing foe to the church's stance upon homosexuality, noting that her half-brother is gay. She has followed Kabbalah teachings previously the age of twelve, along following her brother Frankie, believing "the basis lies in the idea that if you'harshly ample to others, tolerate pass things will happen to you." A few of her songs, such as "Break Your Heart Right Back", are appreciative of LGBT rights.
Grande met actor Graham Phillips in the cast of the musical 13 in 2008 and very old him until December 2011. She out of date Australian YouTube comedian Jai Brooks from August 2012 to July 2013. Grande old her former musical relationship, Big Sean, for eight months until April 2015.

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