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- Ariana Grande was born on June 26, 1993 at 9:24PM in Boca Raton, Florida.[1]
- Grande's longtime best friends are Courtney Chipolone, Colleen Ballinger, Elizabeth Gillies, Aaron Simon Gross, Doug Middlebrook, and Jones Crow.
- Her vocal range is (C#3) D3–B5–E7 (E7).
- Grande can do whistle tones.
- She was never accepted by other people while in her school choir.
- She is a self-described "hopeless romantic" which means she is obsessed with love and being in love.
- She has an older brother named Frankie. He is also a performer and producer and went on tour with her as one of her dancers. He was in the Broadway show, Mamma Mia!
- Frankie is Ariana's half-sibling (they have the same mother, but a different father).
- Grande's mother's name is Joan Grande and her father's name is Edward Butera.
- Grande's fashion icons are Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.
- Grande's YouTube channel was started on January 21, 2007. Its original name was "osnapitzari".
- Grande runs the YouTube channel "StoopKid", previously "WeAreStoopKid" along with her former Victorious co-stars, Matt Bennett, and Liz Gilles.
- She believes in woman's rights.
- Grande was almost named "Sophia" instead of Ariana.
- Grande has a birthmark on her left shoulder, a dimple on her left cheek, and a beauty mark on her left cheek.
- Grande loves Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Imogen Heap, and Whitney Houston (along with other artists).
- She had her first kiss when she was 14 and describes it as "adorable".[2]
- Her first real kiss though was when she was in preschool.[3]
- Grande has Vine, Keek, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook accounts.
- Grande is a huge "techno-junkie" and uses GarageBand to create remixes of her favorite songs using an Apple computer and a Boss looping station RC50, meant for guitars, but Ariana plugs her microphone in and uses her voice instead, as seen on this video.
- Grande is a fan of the Harry Potter series. Coincidentally, there's a character named Ariana (Ariana Dumbledore) in the series.
- Grande loves swimming.
- Grande worked with Big Sean four times. He was featured on "Right There" and "Best Mistake," he whispered the chorus in "Problem," and Grande was featured on his track "Research".
- Grande's favorite movies are 13 Going On 30, Bruce Almighty and American Beauty (along with many other classics).
- Grande used to collect stuffed animals, hockey pucks, and Halloween masks.
- Her favourite animal is the seahorse.
- Grande's fan mail address is 265 S. Federal Hwy Suite 331 Deerfield Beach, FL 33441.
- Grande was on BrainSurge with 130 points, allowing her to move onto the next round, being the only girl to compete. But then she lost, along with Carlos Pena (from Big Time Rush) and was the first one to slide down "The Brain Drain". The episode aired on April 21, 2011.
- Grande loves Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn.
- Her celebrity crush is Jim Carrey.
- She cried when she met Jim Carrey for the first time.[4]
- Grande has a talent for mimicking the speaking and singing voices of others, including but not limited to Britney Spears, Shakira, her co-star Liz Gillies, Katy Perry, The Little Mermaid, a laughing baby, a crying baby and a baby lamb "baaa-ing".
- Grande says she "swears like a sailor".
- Grande's height is 5'0".
- Grande used to live in a house in Los Angeles that's over 100 years old and was previously owned by Francis Ford Coppola, the director of The Godfather.[5]
- Grande loves the restaurant Toast.
- Grande has nine dogs named Coco, Toulouse, Cinnamon, Strauss, Lafayette, Pignoli, Myron, Snape and Lily.
- Grande went to her first concert, a Katy Perry concert, in the summer of 2011.
- Grande says she can't stand it when you smile at a stranger and they don't smile back.
- Grande is hypoglycemic.
- On December 10, 2011, Grande reached a million followers on Twitter.
- Grande put her hands in cement at Planet Hollywood, New York on December 22, 2011.
- Grande does not have a middle name. [6]
- Grande was in the original Broadway cast of 13: The Musical with Liz Gillies and Max Schneider. She played Charlotte.
- Grande's favorite fruit is a strawberry.
- Grande wore cat ears for most of The Honeymoon Tour.
- Grande and Graham Phillips were in a relationship for three years, from late 2008 until December 2011.
- Grande was in a relationship with her backup dancer Jordan Viscomi. They started dating in December 2011. They broke up a few months later.
- Grande loves lavender coloured and scented items.
- While Grande dyed her hair red to portray Cat in Victorious and the first 20 episodes of Sam & Cat, she wore a wig to portray her on the last 15 episodes of Sam & Cat, because dyeing her hair every other week for Victorious completely destroyed her hair and it was annoying putting the temporary dye every four days.
- Grande's devoted fans are called "Arianators". They were originally called "The Ariana Army", then "Tiny Elephants", then the fanbase name slowly became "The Loves" but it didn't really catch on, eventually, the fans gave themselves the name "Arianators", which spread and was accepted by Grande, becoming the official name.
- Grande became a pescatarian on July 3, 2010.[7]
- Grande's favorite artists are Frank Ocean, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Imogen Heap, and Beyoncé.
- Grande used to be a cheerleader.
- Her favorite actress is Jennifer Garner.
- Her style icons are Marilyn Monroe, Coco Chanel, Michael Jackson and Jennifer Lopez.
- She started performing when she was eight years old.
- Her least favorite music genre is dubstep.
- Grande went to two schools while growing up, Pine Crest School and North Broward Preparatory School.
- Her first word was "bubble".[8]
- Grande became a vegan on November 5, 2013, and she still is one.
- When she was little, she went through a phase where she had to wear a Scream mask at all times.[9]
- In preschool, she was sent to detention almost every day for kissing boys on the playground.[10]
- She eats at least five strawberries a day.[11]
- She is a fan of YouTuber "Lohanthony," who is good friends with her brother Frankie Grande. The two have done YouTube videos as well as live chats together.
- If she could invite anyone to a tea party, it would be Michael Jackson, Audrey Hepburn, her Nona, Imogen Heap and Leonardo DiCaprio.[12]
- She would love to go to the beach, eat lots of fruit, and have fun with her friends while listening to summer music on a perfect summer day.
- Her first role in a play or movie was Miss Hannigan on Annie.[13]
- Leonardo DiCaprio is one of her celebrity crushes. On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she revealed Jim Carrey was her first celebrity crush.
- The Wizard of Oz was one of her favorite movies when she was younger.[14]
- Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, and Imogen Heap are her role models.
- She's allergic to dark chocolate but still eats it.
- In November 2013, Grande met musician, Bruno Mars, at the MTV EMAs and claimed she "died a little inside" upon finally meeting one of her celebrity crushes.[15]
- Grande has 57 known tattoos. She also previously had six other tattoos that she's since had covered.
- Grande loves rainy and gloomy weather.
- Grande is allergic to bananas, shellfish, tomatoes, and some cough medicines as well as dark chocolate.
- Grande’s birthday is the same as her former Sam & Cat co-star, Jennette McCurdy.
- Grande loves her cat-eared headbands.
- Grande is the first person in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have the lead singles from each of their first five albums debut within the top 10 in the US.
- In April 2019, Grande revealed that she is attracted to both men and women, but doesn't label her sexuality.
- In May 2019, Grande revealed she is allergic to tomatoes.
- In March 2013, Grande confessed through a tweet that when she was 5 she was scared to change her clothes because she thought that Justin Timberlake had a crystal ball and would see her naked.[16]
- Ariana's favorite color is lavender.
- She is named after the character Princess Oriana in Felix The Cat.
- She's doing a pilates class with her instructor Liana Levi.
- Her top 3 favorites movies of all time are first The First Wives Club, second To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and third Best in Show. It was very easy for her to choose. [17]
References[]
- ↑ Twitter - Joan about Ariana's birth
- ↑ Live chat December 2013, 27:58
- ↑ Justin Bieber and the Cast of Victorious discuss their first kiss
- ↑ Article about Ariana meeting Jim Carrey
- ↑ Video of Ariana talking about her house
- ↑ Ariana confirming she does not have a middle name
- ↑ Ariana's tweet about being a pescatarian
- ↑ 7 Things You Don't Know about Ariana Grande
- ↑ Ariana's tweet
- ↑ Ariana on her earlier years
- ↑ Ariana on strawberries
- ↑ Ariana's TwitLonger about tea parties
- ↑ Wzra TV interview with Ariana Grande
- ↑ NeonLimelight interview with Ariana Grande
- ↑ Ariana Grande's Best Fangirl Moments, From Madonna to Jim Carrey, Bruno Mars & More
- ↑ https://twitter.com/arianagrande/status/310269089144770560
- ↑ The Kelly Clarkson Show on YouTube - Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande And More Play 'My Top 3' | Digital Exclusive