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Ariana Grande-Butera^[1][2] (born June 26, 1993),^[3][4] professionally known as Ariana Grande, is an American singer-songwriter^[5] and actress. She began her career singing on a cruise ship, at sporting events, and with various orchestras in South Florida. She appeared in the Broadway musical 13, before landing the role of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeontelevision series Victorious in 2009. After the show ended, Grande rose to prominence as a teen idol on her own spinoff,Sam & Cat, along with iCarly actress Jennette McCurdy.

As she kept herself busy with television, Grande began to pursue a musical career appearing on the soundtrack, Music from Victorious (2011), and subsequently signed a recording contract with Republic Records. She launched a music career after the release of her debut studio album, Yours Truly (2013), which debuted at number one on the U.S.Billboard 200. The album's lead single, "The Way", became a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with critics comparing her wide vocal range to Mariah Carey.

Grande developed a maturing image while promoting her second studio album, My Everything (2014), which became her second consecutive number-one album in the United States. The album produced the successful tracks "Problem" and "Break Free". Some of her achievements include New Artist of the Year at the 2013 American Music Awards, Favorite Breakout Artist at the 40th People's Choice Awards, and Breakthrough Artist of the Year by the Music Business Association.

Ariana Grande-Butera was born on June 26, 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida. She is the daughter of Joan Grande, chief executive officer (CEO) of telephone and alarm system company Hose-McCann Communications,^[6][7] and Edward Butera, who owns a graphic design firm in Boca Raton.^[8] Her name was originally inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat (1959).^[9] She is of Italian descent, "half Sicilian and half Abruzzese",^[10] and has an elder half-brother, Frankie Grande (born c. 1983), who is also an actor, dancer, and producer, as well as a contestant on season sixteen of Big Brother.^[11] Grande's mother moved with her father from New York to Florida when she was pregnant with her and revealed that her parents split up when she was 8 or 9.^[8] Since the age of two, she would attend nearly every home game of the NHL hockey team, Florida Panthers, where she was struck by hockey pucks more than once when she was five years old.^[12]

As a child, she described herself as being "a very weird little girl" because "I always wanted to have skeleton face paint on or be wearing a Freddy Krueger mask" and that her fifth-birthday party had a Jaws theme.^[8] At one point, her mother became concerned for her "dark and deranged" ideas as a child: "There was a stage, when I was 3 or 4, where my mom thought I might grow up to be a serial killer."^[13][14] Growing up, Grande performed with the Fort Lauderdale Children's Theater,^[15] playing her first role as Annie, as well as performing in the musicals The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast.^[16] At the age of 8, she performed at a karaoke lounge on a cruise ship, in various orchestras such as South Florida’s Philharmonic, Florida Sunshine Pops and Symphonic Orchestras, and made her national television debut singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the Florida Panthers.^[17] She would also perform in front of her grandparents and attended Pine Crest School, and North Broward Preparatory School.^[18][19]

By age 13, she became serious about pursuing her musical career, though she still concentrated on theater.^[20] When she first arrived in Los Angeles to meet with her managers, she expressed a desire to record an R&B album when she was 14: "I was like, 'I want to make an R&B album,' They were like 'Um, that’s a helluva goal! Who is going to buy a 14-year-old’s R&B album?!'"^[8] In 2008, Grande auditioned and scored her first casting playing the supporting role of cheerleader Charlotte in the kiddie musical 13 on Broadway,^[21] for which she won a National Youth Theatre Association Award.^[22] When she joined the musical, Grande left her high school, North Broward Preparatory School, but continued to be enrolled. The school sent materials to her so she could study with tutors.^[19][23] She also sang various times at theNew York City Jazz club Birdland.^[3]

In 2009, she auditioned for the Nickelodeon television show Victorious in New York along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies.^[24] In this sitcom set in a performing arts high school, Grande was cast as Cat Valentine, a classmate and friend of protagonist Tori Vega (Victoria Justice), while Gillies landed the role of the "mean girl", Jade West.^[24] "We booked Victorious together which was totally surreal" said Gillies.^[24] When she landed the role, Grande had to dye her hair red every other week because the executive producer, Dan Schneider, did not want all cast members to be brunettes.^[25] The show began filming on October 5, 2009 and premiered on March 27, 2010 to the second largest audience for a live-action series in Nickelodeon history with 5.7 million viewers.^[26][27] The role helped propel Grande to teen idol status, but she was more interested in a music career stating that acting is "fun, but music has always been first and foremost with me."^[28] Her character was compared to "Brittany Murphy's performance as the frumpy, hapless Tai in Clueless" (1995) and described as being "very impressionable and easily swayed" but "generally sweet."^[29] Season two began filming on October 4, 2010 and premiered right after the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards to 6.2 million viewers on April 2, 2011, becoming highest rated episode of Victorious.^[30] In 2010, she played the role of Miriam in the musical Cuba Libre, which was written and produced by songwriter Desmond Child.^[19]

After season one of Victorious wrapped, Grande wanted to focus on her music career and began working on her debut album in August 2010.^[31] To strengthen her vocal range, she began working with vocal coach Eric Vetro, who also worked with pop singer Katy Perry.^[32] She made her first musical appearance on the track "Give It Up" on the soundtrack Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show in August 2011. While filming Victorious, Grande made several recordings of herself singing covers ofAdele, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey, and uploaded them on YouTube.^[33] A friend of Monte Lipman, CEO of Republic Records, came across one of Grande's videos while searching for videos on YouTube. Impressed with her vocals, he sent Lipman links to YouTube videos of Grande singing and signed her to a recording contract.^[8] She released her first single "Put Your Hearts Up", in December which was cut during sessions for a teen-oriented pop album that was held up by numerous delays.^[34] Unsatisfied with the direction of her music, she later disowned the track for its bubblegum pop sound and had no interest in recording music of that genre.^[34]Also in 2011, she voiced a fairy, Princess Diaspro, on the Nickelodeon animated television series Winx Club. After six seasons, the role was recast to Cassandra Morris.