Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande began performing onstage when she was a child. Her involvement in a Broadway play at age 15, followed by some small TV parts, helped her land the role of Cat on TV's Victorious. She followed that with the spinoff Sam & Cat and then dove headfirst into a chart-topping musical career, releasing five albums: Yours Truly (2013), My Everything (2014), Dangerous Woman (2016), Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019).

Ariana Grande-Butera was born on June 26, 1993, in Boca Raton, Florida. She is the daughter of Joan Grande, the Brooklyn-born CEO of Hose-McCann Communications, a manufacturer of communications and safety equipment, and Edward Butera, a graphic design firm owner in Boca Raton. Grande is of Italian descent, and has described herself as an Italian American with Sicilian and Abruzzese roots. She has an older half-brother, Frankie Grande, who is an entertainer and producer, and she has a close relationship with her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Grande.Her family moved from New York to Florida before her birth, and her parents separated when she was eight or nine years old.

When her parents were Florida Panthers season ticket holders, she was accidentally hit on each wrist by errant hockey pucks on two different occasions in 1998, sustaining minor bruises both times. The second occurrence happened during the Panthers' inaugural regular-season game at National Car Rental Center on October 9, 1998, in which she was also the first child to ever ride a Zamboni in the brand-new arena during the first intermission, the result of her parents' $200 winning bid at an auction. A photograph of her on the Zamboni was featured in the South Florida SunSentinel the next day. At age 8, she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Panthers' home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on January 16, 2002.

As a young child, Grande performed with the Fort Lauderdale Children's Theater, playing her first role as the title character in the musical Annie. She also performed in their productions of The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast. At age eight, she performed at a karaoke lounge on a cruise ship and with various orchestras such as South Florida's Philharmonic, Florida Sunshine Pops and Symphonic Orchestras. During this time, she attended the Pine Crest School and later North Broward Preparatory.

Grande landed her breakout role in the Nickelodeon series Victorious. Victorious was set at a performing arts high school, and Grande was cast as a goofy aspiring singer-actress named Cat Valentine. While busy with the show, Grande nevertheless pursued a musical career, making her first appearance on a record with the Victorious soundtrack. And in 2011, Grande released the single "Put Your Hearts Up," a pop song aimed at the hearts of her young Victorious audience. The show's devoted fan base voted Victorious Favorite TV Show at the 2012 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

When Victorious went off the air in 2012, Grande's character Cat Valentine survived. She went to star in the Nick spin-off Sam & Cat, co-starring iCarly’s Jennette McCurdy. Sam & Cat wasn’t on long when rumors began to swirl that Grande wasn’t particularly enjoying the experience, and the show came to an abrupt end after 35 episodes (2013-14).

Yours Truly (originally titled Daydreamin') is Ariana Grande's debut studio album. It was released through Republic Records on September 3, 2013. The album was recorded between August 2011 and June 2013.The album's lead single, "The Way", featuring rapper Mac Miller, was released on March 25, 2013.The second single, "Baby I", was released on July 22, 2013. The third and final single, "Right There", featuring Big Sean, was released on August 6, 2013.Yours Truly has received positive reviews from critics, with much praise going to her throwback to 90s R&B music and her vocals, with critics comparing them to Mariah Carey.

Track listing:

1. «Honeymoon Avenue»
2. «Baby I»
3. «Right There»
4. «Tattooed Heart»
5. «Lovin' It»
6. «Piano»
7. «Daydreamin'»
8. «The Way»
9. «You'll Never Know»
10. «Almost Is Never Enough»
11. «Popular Song»
12. «Better Left Unsaid»

My Everything is the sophomore studio album by Ariana Grande. It was released through Republic Records on August 25, 2014. The album was recorded between October 2013 and May 2014.

Singles:

The lead single, "Problem", featuring Iggy Azalea, was released on April 28, 2014.

The second single, "Break Free", featuring Zedd, was released on July 2, 2014.

The third single, "Bang Bang", with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, was released on July 29, 2014.

The fourth single, "Love Me Harder", with The Weeknd, was released on September 30, 2014.

The fifth and final single, "One Last Time", was released on February 10, 2015.

Promotional singles:

The first promotional single, "Best Mistake", was released on August 12, 2014

The second promotional single, "One Last Time", was released on August 22, 2014, before becoming the final single from the album.

Trivia:

Grande said that she loves this album five times more than Yours Truly.

Ariana Grande has reffered to My Everything as a "more grown up Yours Truly"

Ariana stated she wasn't going to put "Problem" on My Everything until she heard the final version.

Grande had the photoshoot for the album packaging on May 27, 2014.

Grande tweeted the name of the album on June 28, 2014.

Grande co-wrote 4 out of the 12 songs on the standard edition of My Everything. She also co-wrote 2 out of the 3 songs on the deluxe edition, and 2 out of the 3 on the Japanese edition.

In the weeks preceding the release of My Everything, several previews of songs from the album were released.

This is Ariana Grande's first album to have the most collaborations, with a total of 9 collaborations.

On July 7, 2014 Grande posted a teaser of "Best Mistake" onto her Instagram page. The song features rapper Big Sean.

On July 27, 2014, a preview of "Be My Baby" was filmed at a concert of featured artist, Cashmere Cat, and uploaded to YouTube, by a fan. Grande retweeted a link to the video on her Twitter profile. She then retweeted a second snippet on August 4.

Twenty days before the album's release, Grande released a preview of "Love Me Harder", which features Canadian recording artist The Weeknd, onto her Instagram profile.

On August 20, four songs from the album, "Why Try", "Be My Baby", "Love Me Harder", and "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart", were released courtesy of MTV.

To promote the album, Grande hosted a concert stream on August 18, 2014, and gave access to those who preordered My Everything through her website.

The first song recorded was "Only 1" and the last was "Love Me Harder".

The singles were remixed and put on her first remix album The Remix.

To commemorate the first anniversary of My Everything, Grande posted on Instagram two outtakes of the photoshoot of the album.

My Everything is the second most streamed album ever by a female artist on Spotify, after Dua Lipa. And is the 17th most-streamed album in the world with over three billion streams.

Track listing

1. "Intro"
2. "Problem" (featuring Iggy Azalea)
3. "One Last Time"
4. "Why Try"
5. "Break Free" (featuring Zedd)
6. "Best Mistake" (featuring Big Sean)
7. "Be My Baby" (featuring Cashmere Cat)
8. "Break Your Heart Right Back" (featuring Childish Gambino)
9. "Love Me Harder" (with The Weeknd)
10. "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart"
11. "Hands On Me"
12. "My Everything"

In 2015 Grande released Christmas & Chill, a holiday album, and the single "Focus," which debuted at number seven on the Billboard's Hot 100.

Dangerous Woman (originally titled Moonlight) is Ariana Grande's third studio album. It was released through Republic Records on May 20, 2016. The album was recorded between August 2014 and January 2016.

The album debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, earning 175,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 129,000 coming from pure sales. It was her first album to not hit number-one in the country. However, it became her first number one album in the UK. The album was supported by four singles, including the US Billboard Hot 100 top ten's "Side to Side" and "Dangerous Woman", and international top ten hit "Into You". Dangerous Woman debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. It became Grande's first non-chart-topper in the United States. It also hit number-one in Australia, Brazil, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain and Taiwan, while also entering the top ten in almost every territory it charted in. On October 28, 2016, Dangerous Woman was certified Platinum by the RIAA for combined album sales, on-demand audio, video streams and track-sale equivalent of 1 million units. As of January 2017, the album has sold over 322,000 pure copies in the US.

Track listing:

1. "Moonlight"

2. "Dangerous Woman"

3. "Be Alright"

4. "Into You"

5. "Side To Side" (featuring Nicki Minaj)

6. "Let Me Love You" (featuring Lil Wayne)

7. "Greedy"

8. "Leave Me Lonely" (featuring Macy Gray)

9. "Everyday" (featuring Future)

10. "Bad Decisions"

11. "Thinking Bout You"

Sweetener is Ariana Grande's fourth studio album. It was released on August 17, 2018, through Republic Records, Ariana's record label. The album was recorded and produced between July 2016 and May 2018.

The album won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st ceremony, marking Grande's first career Grammy win.[3]Grande returned to the charts in April 2018 with "No Tears Left to Cry," the catchy, upbeat response to the previous year's Manchester concert bombing. She followed in June with the dance track "The Light Is Coming," featuring Minaj; dropped the sultry "God Is a Woman" in mid-July; and delivered "Breathin" in September. The four releases were included in her highly anticipated album Sweetener, which debuted in mid-August, as was a track about her whirlwind romance with Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson. The overall success of Sweetener led to her first Grammy win, for Best Pop Vocal Album, in February 2019.

Track listing:

1. "Raindrops (An Angel Cried)"

2. "Blazed" (featuring Pharrell Williams)

3. "The Light Is Coming" (featuring Nicki Minaj)

4. "R.E.M"

5. "God Is A Woman"

6. "Sweetener"

7. "Successful"

8. "Everytime"

9. "Breathin"

10. "No Tears Left To Cry"

11. "Borderline"

12. "Better Off"

13. "Goodnight N Go"

14. "Pete Davidson"

15. "Get Well Soon"

Thank U, Next (stylized all in lowercase) is Ariana Grande's fifth studio album, released on February 8, 2019, through Republic Records. The album was recorded between October and December 2018.

Three singles were released from the album, two of which debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. With this, Thank U, Next joined Daydream by Mariah Carey as the only albums by female artists to have multiple songs debut at number one. Grande also joined Carey and Britney Spears as the only female artists with multiple number-one debuts; overall she is the fifth artist after Justin Bieber and Drake.Topping charts in many countries internationally, the song broke numerous streaming records, including the record for the most streams received by a song in a single day for a female artist on Spotify, and the largest on-demand streaming week ever recorded for a female artist in the US.

Track listing:

1. "Imagine"

2. "Needy"

3. "NASA"

4. "Bloodline"

5. "Fake Smile"

6. "Bad Idea"

7. "Make Up"

8. "Ghostin"

9. "In My Head"

10. "7 Rings"

11. "Thank U, Next"

12. "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored"

Positions is the sixth studio album by Ariana Grande. It was released on October 30, 2020, through Republic Records. The album was recorded between January and October 2020.

A deluxe edition of the album was released on February 19, 2021. It features five bonus tracks including the remix of "34+35" featuring Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat.Positions is built around themes of sexual intimacy, romantic devotion and endearment. Musically, it expands on the trap-infused R&B and pop sound of its predecessors, Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019). Doja Cat, the Weeknd, and Ty Dolla Sign appear as guest features, alongside Megan Thee Stallion on the deluxe edition. Upon release, Positions was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics; Grande's vocal performance was often praised, though the album's lyrics and production style drew criticism. Publications ranked the album on various year-end best albums lists of 2020.

Track listing:

1. "Shut Up"

2. "34+35"

3. "Motive" (featuring Doja Cat)

4. "Just Like Magic"

5. "Off The Table" (featuring The Weeknd)

6. "Six Thirty"

7. "Safety Net" (featuring Ty Dolla $ign)

8. "My Hair"

9. "Nasty"

10. "West Side"

11. "Love Language"

12. "Positions"

13. "Obvious"

14. "POV"

In February of 2017year, she began her Dangerous Woman tour across North America and then Europe. On May 22, 2017, tragedy struck after Grande finished a concert in Manchester, England and a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the exit of the concert hall, killing 22 people and wounding 116, including many young adults and children. "All acts of terrorism are cowardly... but this attack stands out for its appalling sickening cowardice, deliberately targeting innocent, defenseless children and young people who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives," British Prime Minister Theresa May said after the attack.

Less than a day after the attack, Grande suspended her Dangerous Woman tour. She returned to Manchester 13 days after the attack to perform a benefit concert on June 4 for the bombing victims, enlisting friends and fellow superstars to perform including Bieber, Cyrus, Katy Perry, Liam Gallagher, Chris Martin, and Pharrell Williams. Before the concert, Grande visited fans who had been injured in the attack, and she also offered 14,000 free tickets to people who had been at the May 22 concert.

Grande resumed her tour on June 7th in Paris, posting in Instagram: "First show back tonight. Thinking of our angels every step of the way. I love you with all my heart. Grateful for and incredibly proud of my band, dancers and entire crew. I love you. I love you."

The following year, the singer revealed that she was still feeling the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder from the event. "It's hard to talk about because so many people have suffered such severe, tremendous loss," she told British Vogue. "I don't think I'll ever know how to talk about it and not cry."

Among her many accolades, Grande has won six iHeartRadio Music Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards and three American Music Awards. She has also earned 12 Grammy nominations and one win.

Acting

The pop diva returned to television with a guest appearance on Scream Queens in 2015, and she hit the big screen in a cameo appearance in Zoolander 2 in 2016. She also starred as Penny Pingleton, Tracy Turnblad's best friend, in NBC's Hairspray Live! in December 2016.

Grande has also become a popular host of Saturday Night Live, bringing her musical and acting talents to the show, including uncanny impersonations of fellow pop divas Britney Spears, Shakira, Rihanna, Celine Dion and Whitney Houston in a skit spoofing the streaming service Tidal.

In February 2020 Grande made a guest appearance on season 2 of Jim Carrey's Showtime series Kidding.

In addition to her musical and acting projects, Grande has launched 11 fragrances.

When she is not performing, the pop superstar supports various charitable causes including Kids Who Care, a group she co-founded that raises money for charities in the South Florida region. She also has cultivated a massive social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, and landed on Time magazine's list of "The 100 Most Influential People" in 2016.

Grande went public with her romance with her "The Way" collaborator Mac Miller in August 2016. The pair split in May 2018 after almost two years of dating. "I respect and adore him endlessly and am grateful to have him in my life in any form, at all times regardless of how our relationship changes or what the universe holds for each of us!" Grande posted on Instagram.

On June 11, 2018, People magazine confirmed that the singer was engaged to SNL's Davidson, her boyfriend of several weeks. Subsequent attention focused on their affectionate social media posts directed at one another, though the couple found themselves in an awkward position when footage surfaced of Davidson making a joke about the Manchester concert bombing months earlier.

Grande was devastated by Miller's death from an accidental drug overdose in September 2018, a development that seemingly impacted her relationship with Davidson. By October 2018, the singer and comedian had split.

Grande went on to date Social House's Mikey Foster, before sparking a relationship with real estate agent Dalton Gomez. The pair got engaged in December 2020 and wed in May 2021.

The Listening Sessions (2013)

The Honeymoon Tour (2015)

Dangerous Woman Tour (2017)

Sweetener World Tour (2019)

The Sweetener Sessions (2018)

Justin Bieber – Believe Tour (2013)