Ariana Grande-Butera, known professionally as Ariana Grande, (born June 26, 1993) is an American singer and actress. She is best known for playing Cat Valentine in the series Victorious and Sam & Cat.
Ariana is of Italian descent (half-Sicilian (Butera family), half-Abruzzese (Grande family)), Greek descent, and Tunisian or Moroccan (or both) descent. Her name was inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat and the shortened name of an Italian Car manufacturer Ferrari. Grande's parents are Joan Grande and Edward Butera, and she has an older brother, Frankie Grande, who is a performer and producer. When she was 8 years old, she went on a cruise with her family and she sang karaoke when Gloria Estafan (a famous Latin singer) was listening her sing. She told Ariana to follow her dreams, which inspired Ariana to do singing and acting. Ariana then did musicals at her local theater, her first being Annie, before taking music seriously when she was 13.
For Dreamworks Animation, she has provided some of the soundtrack of the film, Trolls.
