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Ariana Grande is engaged to comedian 

Pete Davidson, according to multiple reports.


Us Weekly, which was first to report the news, said the couple “were telling people that
they're engaged” at Robert Pattinson's birthday party in L.A. on Saturday.

Who Is Ariana Grande?

Ariana Grande began performing onstage when she was a child. 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. 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).

Early Years

Grande was born on June 26, 1993, in Boca Raton, Florida, to Edward
Butera, a graphic designer, and Joan Grande, a businesswoman. She took to
singing and acting at a young age and made her way onto the local theater
scene before she was a teenager. 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. The early role led to
accolades, and Grande won a National Youth Theatre Association Award.

Two years later, she appeared in the musical Cuba Libre and had a small role
on a TV show called The Battery’s Down. 

Television Roles

Grande landed her breakout role in the Nickelodeon


series Victorious. Victorious was set at a performing arts high school, and
Grande was cast as a goofy aspiring singer-actress named Cat Valentine.
While busy with the show, Grande nevertheless pursued a musical career,
making her first appearance on a record with the Victorious soundtrack. And
in 2011, Grande released the single "Put Your Hearts Up," a pop song aimed
at the hearts of her young Victorious audience. The show's devoted fan base
voted Victorious Favorite TV Show at the 2012 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice
Awards.
When Victorious went off the air in 2012, Grande's character Cat Valentine
survived. She went to star in the Nick spin-off Sam & Cat, co-
starring iCarly’s Jennette McCurdy. 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).

Albums and Songs

'Yours Truly' & 'My Everything'

“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. The 2014 release My
Everything sold 169,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 1. The single
“Problem,” featuring Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, preceded the album
release and debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100, selling more than
400,000 copies upon its release. “Break Free” with Zedd and “Love Me
Harder” with The Weeknd followed, each climbing toward the top of the
charts.

"Bang Bang," "One Last Time"

During the summer of 2014, Grande teamed up with Jessie J and Nicki


Minaj on the single “Bang Bang,” a track that debuted at No. 6 and peaked at
No. 3 in the United States. The album spawned another hit single “One Last
Time,” which reached number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Grande had
three hit singles from My Everything on the Billboard chart at the same time.

'Dangerous Woman'

In 2015 Grande released Christmas & Chill, a holiday album, and the single
"Focus," which debuted at number seven on the Billboard's Hot 100. In
February 2016, she released her third album Dangerous Woman, and the title
track debuted at number 10 on the Hot 100 that March. 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. Dangerous Woman,
which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, also features
collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Macy Gray and Future.

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