Ariana Grande

Kayla White, Staff Writer

Ariana was born June 26, 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida, U.S which makes her 23 years old. She began her career for singing and acting in the Broadway musical 13 before landing the role of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon TV show called Victorious in 2009. The show ended after four seasons, and Grande starred on the spinoff, Sam and Cat which ended in 2014. She has been in other TV shows also.
As a kid, she performed with the Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theater and was playing her first role as Annie and performing in the musicals The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast. When she was 8, she sang at a karaoke lounge on a cruise ship and with various orchestras such as South Florida’s Philharmonic, Florida Sunshine Pops and Symphonic Orchestras, and she made her national TV debut singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the Florida Panthers.
Her whole music career began from the same show as her singing and acting career Victorious, but from the soundtrack part. Her first soundtrack she released was her debut studio album called Yours Truly in 2013. Then the albums lead to the single “The Way,” which was debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Grande’s second album was called My Everything that got released in 2014. It had the singles “Problem,” “Break Free,” “Bang Bang,” and “Love Me Harder” in it. She spent 34 weeks on just that one Album. This album got her really far in her career because it led to her first tour with the song My Everything. Her third album was Dangerous Woman which got her way farther in this whole thing because she was the first person in the history of that chart to have the lead single from each of her first three albums. Overall, Ariana has come a long way in her life of doing what she does and has become an amazing and helpful person