The overall success of Sweetener led to her first Grammy win, for Best Pop Vocal Album, in February 2019. The four releases were included in her highly anticipated album Sweetener, which debuted in mid-August, as was a track about her whirlwind romance with Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson. She followed in June with the dance track "The Light Is Coming," featuring Minaj dropped the sultry "God Is a Woman" in mid-July and delivered "Breathin" in September. Grande returned to the charts in April 2018 with "No Tears Left to Cry," the catchy, upbeat response to the previous year's Manchester concert bombing. Dangerous Woman, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, also features collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Macy Gray and Future. She made music history with the track's success, becoming the first artist to have the lead singles from her first three albums debut in the Top 10. In February 2016, she released her third album Dangerous Woman, and the title track debuted at number 10 on the Hot 100 that March. In 2015 Grande released Christmas & Chill, a holiday album, and the single "Focus," which debuted at number seven on the Billboard's Hot 100. “Break Free” with Zedd and “Love Me Harder” with The Weeknd followed, each climbing toward the top of the charts. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100, selling more than 400,000 copies upon its release.
The single “Problem,” featuring Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, preceded the album release and debuted at No. The 2014 release My Everything sold 169,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. “The Way” was the first single from Grande’s debut album, Yours Truly, a record that also featured the hits "Baby I" and "Right There." The album, produced by super-producer Babyface, showed a maturing Grande, and 1990s soul influences from pop diva Mariah Carey. Albums and Songs 'Yours Truly' & 'My Everything' Sam & Cat wasn’t on long when rumors began to swirl that Grande wasn’t particularly enjoying the experience, and the show came to an abrupt end after 35 episodes (2013-14). She went to star in the Nick spin-off Sam & Cat, co-starring iCarly’s Jennette McCurdy. When Victorious went off the air in 2012, Grande's character Cat Valentine survived. The early role led to accolades, and Grande won a National Youth Theatre Association Award. Her first big break came in 2008 when the 15-year-old landed the role of Charlotte in the Broadway production of 13, a play focusing on life growing up in New York City.
She took to singing and acting at a young age and made her way onto the local theater scene before she was a teenager. Grande was born on June 26, 1993, in Boca Raton, Florida, to Edward Butera, a graphic designer, and Joan Grande, a businesswoman. She followed that with the spinoff Sam & Cat and then dove headfirst into a chart-topping musical career, releasing five albums: Yours Truly (2013), My Everything (2014), Dangerous Woman (2016), Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019).
Her involvement in a Broadway play at age 15, followed by some small TV parts, helped her land the role of Cat on TV's Victorious. Ariana Grande is a sitcom-star-turned-pop music sensation, known for such hit songs as "Problem," "Bang Bang," "Dangerous Woman" and "Thank U, Next." Who Is Ariana Grande?Īriana Grande began performing onstage when she was a child.