Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande-Butera2 (born June 26, 1993) known professionally as Ariana Grande ˌɑriːɡrɑːndeɪ is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.She began her career in the Broadway musical 13, before landing the role of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon television seriesVictorious in 2009. After four seasons, the show ended, and Grande starred on the spinoff, Sam Cat, which ended in 2014. She has also appeared in other theatre, television and film roles and lent her voice to animated television and films. Grande has been featured on the cover of numerous teen and music magazines.Grande's music career began with the soundtrack Music from Victorious (2011). She signed a recording contract with Republic Records and released her debut studio album, Yours Truly in 2013, which debuted at number one on the US 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. Her second studio album, My Everything (2014), also reached number one in the United States. It contained the hit singles "Problem" and "Break Free". With songs "Break Free", "Problem", "Bang Bang" and "Love Me Harder", she spent 34 continuous weeks in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and had the most top 10 singles of any artist in 2014.5 In 2015, she is promoting My Everything in North America and Europe with a tour titled The Honeymoon Tour and is scheduled to appear on the upcoming Foxnew comedy horror TV series Scream Queens.

Some of Grande's honors include New Artist of the Year at the 2013 American Music Awards, Music Business Association's Breakthrough Artist of the Year, at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awa.Grande recorded her debut album, Yours Truly, over a three year period. She completed the album, originally titled Daydreamin, in June 2013; it was released on August 30, 2013.She is credited as a songwriter on several tracks of the album. In September 2013, it debuted at on the USBillboard 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.] Yours Truly also debuted in the top ten in several other countries, including Australia at number six, the UK at number seven, Ireland at number six, and the Netherlands at number five. It also debuted on New Zealand's top 40 albums chart at number eleven. By April 2014, the album had sold more than 500,000 copies in the United States, making it Grande's first gold album. 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.[59] Grande was eventually sued by Minder Music for copying the line, "What we gotta do right here is go back, back in time" from the 1972 song 2015 .Ariana Grande es la mejor.