Ariana Grande-Butera is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Boca Raton, Florida, Grande began her career at age 15 in the 2008 Broadway musical 13. She rose to fame for her role as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious (2010–2013) and Sam & Cat (2013–2014). She subsequently signed with Republic Records in 2011 after the label’s executives discovered YouTube videos of her covering songs. Her 1950s doo-wop-influenced pop and R&B debut album, Yours Truly (2013), topped the US Billboard 200 chart, while its lead single, “The Way”, charted in the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100.
She released her second studio album, My Everything, one year later in August 2014. Between her first two albums, she has sold over two million albums worldwide. Grande’s third solo album, Dangerous Woman, debuted in May 2016.
Grande has also toured the world extensively. According to Billboard, her Dangerous Woman tour grossed $71 million. (That’s gross earnings, not profits, yet it was still enough to rank as one of the highest grossing tours in the world in 2017.)
In 2019, she had two #1 albums—Sweetener and Thank U, Next—within six months of each other. Grande also became the youngest and only the fourth female artist ever to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2019.
