Ariana Grande is only twenty-one years old and has made a huge name for herself. Growing up in South Florida she began her career on a cruise ship, and sporting events before she made her way into Broadway. After plays, like The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast, she got her start on Nickelodeon.
In 2009, at just fifteen, she auditioned for the Nickelodeon television show Victorious in New York along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies. In this sitcom set in a performing arts high school, Grande was cast as Cat Valentine, a classmate and friend of Tori Vega (Victoria Justice), while Gillies landed the role of the "mean girl", Jade West. 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. 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." 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.
After season one of Victorious wrapped, Grande wanted to focus on her music career and began working on her debut album in August 2010. To strengthen her vocal range, she began working with vocal coach Eric Vetro, who also worked with pop singer Katy Perry. While filming Victorious, Grande made several recordings of herself singing covers of Adele, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey, and uploaded them on YouTube. 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. Grande spent three years recording her debut album, Yours Truly. She completed the album in June 2013, originally titled Daydreamin, and was released on August 30, 2013. In January 2010, it officially debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart—with 138,000 copies sold in its first week—making Grande the first female artist, since Kesha, to have her first album debut atop of the charts—and the fifteenth female artist overall. The lead single, "The Way" featuring Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, debuted at No. 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100, eventually peaking at No. 9 for two weeks, and spent 26 weeks on the Hot 100.
Today, Ariana is on Nickelodeon’s Sam & Cat, still recording with various artists, and is dating rapper Big Sean.
In 2009, at just fifteen, she auditioned for the Nickelodeon television show Victorious in New York along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies. In this sitcom set in a performing arts high school, Grande was cast as Cat Valentine, a classmate and friend of Tori Vega (Victoria Justice), while Gillies landed the role of the "mean girl", Jade West. 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. 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." 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.
After season one of Victorious wrapped, Grande wanted to focus on her music career and began working on her debut album in August 2010. To strengthen her vocal range, she began working with vocal coach Eric Vetro, who also worked with pop singer Katy Perry. While filming Victorious, Grande made several recordings of herself singing covers of Adele, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey, and uploaded them on YouTube. 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. Grande spent three years recording her debut album, Yours Truly. She completed the album in June 2013, originally titled Daydreamin, and was released on August 30, 2013. In January 2010, it officially debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart—with 138,000 copies sold in its first week—making Grande the first female artist, since Kesha, to have her first album debut atop of the charts—and the fifteenth female artist overall. The lead single, "The Way" featuring Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, debuted at No. 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100, eventually peaking at No. 9 for two weeks, and spent 26 weeks on the Hot 100.
Today, Ariana is on Nickelodeon’s Sam & Cat, still recording with various artists, and is dating rapper Big Sean.
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