110 Fun Facts About Ariana Grande

In which Florida city was Ariana Grande born in 1993?

Boca Raton became home just in time: her mother moved from New York to Florida while pregnant with her, and her parents separated when she was eight or nine.

What is the second half of the hyphenated surname Ariana Grande was born with?

Butera completes the name she chose for her Wicked film credit, Ariana Grande-Butera, because that was her name when she first saw the stage show at age ten.

Ariana Grande's professional career began in 2008 in which Broadway musical?

13 closed after barely three months on Broadway, but its all-teenage cast also launched her future Victorious co-star Elizabeth Gillies.

What was the name of the character Ariana Grande played on Nickelodeon's Victorious?

Cat Valentine's red hair meant bleaching and dyeing her own every other week, which damaged it so badly that she wore a wig for the spin-off series.

What was the name of the fictional high school where Nickelodeon's Victorious was set?

Hollywood Arts admits the show's heroine after she unexpectedly takes her older sister's place on stage at the school's big showcase.

Jennette McCurdy's Sam Puckett, who shared a 2013 spin-off with Ariana Grande's character, first appeared on which Nickelodeon show?

iCarly's Sam and Grande's Victorious character become unlikely roommates in the spin-off and start their own after-school babysitting business.

Ariana Grande's first stage role, with a Florida children's theater, was the title character of which musical?

Annie came when she was eight, and by her own account she never stopped: she stayed in Florida community theater, moving on to The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast.

Which talent manager signed Ariana Grande early in her pop career?

Scooter Braun later drew headlines when his company bought the label that owned Taylor Swift's first six albums, after which she began re-recording them.

What was the title of Ariana Grande's 2013 debut studio album?

Yours Truly followed a false start: she disowned her 2011 first single, the bubblegum 'Put Your Hearts Up', and steered the album toward the R&B she grew up on.

Which rapper featured on 'The Way', the lead single from Ariana Grande's debut album?

Mac Miller also taught her to work Pro Tools, the software she uses to produce her own vocals; the two became a couple in 2016 and dated for about two years.

Which rapper features on Ariana Grande's 2014 hit 'Problem'?

Iggy Azalea kept the song from number one herself: 'Problem' spent five weeks at number two on the Hot 100, stuck behind her own single 'Fancy'.

Whose uncredited whispered vocals appear in the chorus of Ariana Grande's 'Problem'?

Big Sean had been a billed guest on her earlier single 'Right There', but here he whispers the hook with no credit; the two later dated for eight months.

Which German DJ and producer featured on Ariana Grande's 2014 single 'Break Free'?

Zedd's collaboration leapt from number 18 to number four on the Hot 100 in the week after its music video premiered.

Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's 2014 hit 'Bang Bang' was the lead single from whose album?

Jessie J's single was first cut by Grande, who hated it, a Republic Records executive later said; after hearing it with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, she asked for it back.

In 2014 Ariana Grande became the second woman with three top-ten Hot 100 hits at once as lead artist, after which singer?

Adele did it in March 2012 with 'Set Fire to the Rain', 'Rolling in the Deep' and 'Someone Like You'; Ashanti had tripled up in 2002, but twice as a featured guest.

What was the name of Ariana Grande's first world tour, launched in February 2015?

The Honeymoon Tour promoted her album My Everything, and one of its backup dancers, Ricky Alvarez, became her boyfriend for about a year.

Which Ariana Grande album broke her run of number-one debuts by opening at number two on the Billboard 200?

Dangerous Woman arrived in May 2016 while Drake's Views was spending a fourth straight week at number one, so it had to settle for second place.

Ariana Grande played Penny Pingleton in which NBC musical broadcast in December 2016?

Hairspray Live! cast her as Tracy's best friend, whose strict mother ties her up in her bedroom until her sweetheart Seaweed comes to the rescue.

In the Fox horror-comedy Scream Queens, Ariana Grande played which character?

Chanel #2, real name Sonya Herfmann, is murdered by the Red Devil killer in the very first episode, managing to send out one last tweet as she dies.

Which song did Ariana Grande sing to close One Love Manchester?

Somewhere Over the Rainbow ended the night after the whole cast joined her for 'One Last Time'; her live version was then released as a charity single for the victims' fund.

Where was the One Love Manchester benefit concert held on 4 June 2017?

Old Trafford Cricket Ground's crowd included thousands of fans from her bombed concert, who were offered free tickets to the benefit.

Which producer did Ariana Grande begin working with in 2016 on what became the album Sweetener?

Pharrell Williams produced nearly half the album and said she opened up in the studio as few artists do: 'This record, she really unzipped.'

Ariana Grande won her first Grammy Award in 2019 in which category?

Best Pop Vocal Album went to Sweetener in her absence: she skipped the ceremony after a dispute with its producers over which songs she would perform.

Which comedian was Ariana Grande engaged to for a few months in 2018?

Pete Davidson has a Sweetener track named after him from their whirlwind engagement, and she thanks him by name in 'Thank U, Next', released weeks after they split.

Ariana Grande's 'Thank U, Next' video recreates Mean Girls, Bring It On, Legally Blonde and which other film?

13 Going on 30 completes the set, and stars of the originals joined in: Jennifer Coolidge reprised her Legally Blonde role opposite Grande's Elle Woods.

Ariana Grande's '7 Rings' borrows its melody from which song in The Sound of Music?

My Favorite Things earns Rodgers and Hammerstein's publisher 90 percent of the hit's songwriting royalties, under a deal struck weeks before its release.

At 25, Ariana Grande became the youngest artist yet to headline which festival in 2019?

Coachella's crowd got a surprise too: she brought out four members of NSYNC to sing 'Tearin' Up My Heart' with her.

With which artist did Ariana Grande record the 2020 pandemic duet 'Stuck with U'?

Justin Bieber and Grande gave the single's proceeds to the First Responders Children's Foundation, raising $3.5 million for frontline workers' families by 2021.

'Rain on Me', Ariana Grande's 2020 hit with Lady Gaga, appears on which Gaga album?

Chromatica's hit duet grew out of the two singers talking over their lives and how to keep going; Gaga called it a 'celebration of all the tears'.

Ariana Grande's Netflix concert film 'Excuse Me, I Love You' documented which of her tours?

The Sweetener World Tour film was shot mostly at her London O2 Arena show in October 2019 and came out a year later, when the pandemic had shut concerts down.

Ariana Grande married real-estate agent Dalton Gomez in 2021. In which year did they separate?

They filed for divorce that September; she then began dating her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater.

In which Adam McKay satire did Ariana Grande play pop star Riley Bina alongside Leonardo DiCaprio?

Don't Look Up has her sing a comet ballad with Kid Cudi, and director Adam McKay said she improvised its best line the first time she sang it.

What was the lead single from Ariana Grande's seventh studio album, released in March 2024?

Yes, And? came with a video in which she performs for a room of sniping critics and wins them over, her reply to years of commentary on her private life.

Which character does Ariana Grande play in the Wicked films?

Glinda took months of work before she even auditioned: Grande trained with a singing coach and an acting teacher, saying she had to 'earn' the part.

Who directed the two-part film adaptation of Wicked?

Jon M. Chu chose to split the story in two, saying it could not be wrestled into a single film 'without doing some real damage to it'.

Ariana Grande's Wicked Oscar nomination was in which category?

Supporting actress went to Zoe Saldaña on the night, but Grande still had her moment: she and her Wicked co-star opened the ceremony with a medley of Oz songs.

What is the name of the cosmetics brand Ariana Grande launched in 2021?

R.E.M. Beauty is named after a song on her album Sweetener and after rapid eye movement: the brand's themes, she said, are dreams and the eyes.

In the video for which 2020 Ariana Grande single does she play the president of the United States?

Positions came out about an hour after the final 2020 presidential debate ended, and its video has President Grande handing out medals to postal workers.

Which coffee chain launched a Cloud Macchiato with Ariana Grande in March 2019?

Starbucks' drink echoed the name of Cloud, the perfume she had launched the year before, and she fronted the launch as a Starbucks ambassador.

Which diet did Ariana Grande switch to in 2013?

Vegan eating was a matter of the heart as well as health, by her account: 'I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding.'

Which two singers does Ariana Grande name as her primary vocal influences?

Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston covers she posted on YouTube won her a record deal: a friend sent them to Republic Records boss Monte Lipman, who signed her.

What type of singer is Ariana Grande, whose range is usually put at four octaves?

Soprano in pop is not soprano in opera, she has said: the placement is different, which is why she retrained for months before her operatic role in Wicked.

In July 2015 Ariana Grande caused a minor scandal after surveillance video showed her doing what in a shop?

Licking doughnuts on display came with the remark 'I hate America'; she apologized, saying she meant the country's obesity problem, then posted a video about seeing herself 'behaving poorly'.

What nickname did Guinness World Records give Ariana Grande, who had broken 40 of its records by 2025?

Her records include the most Hot 100 number-one debuts by a woman.

Ariana Grande's older half-brother, an entertainer and producer, is called what?

Frankie Grande kept quiet about his famous sister while competing on Big Brother in 2014, then revealed the secret to save his game; he finished fifth.

Ariana Grande's 2021 remix lifted which Weeknd song to number one on the Hot 100?

Save Your Tears had peaked at number four as a solo single until the remix, which the pair then performed together at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards.

Which singer joined Ariana Grande on stage as a surprise guest at the 2024 Met Gala?

Cynthia Erivo was her Wicked co-star, and the pairing paid off: their film duet 'Defying Gravity' went on to win the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Ariana Grande's 2025 short film 'Brighter Days Ahead' accompanied which album's reissue?

Eternal Sunshine jumped from number 79 back to number one in Australia when the film and deluxe edition arrived, more than a year after the album first came out.

Which classic actress did Ariana Grande cite as her major style influence early in her career?

Audrey Hepburn was her model when she was younger, but she said dressing like her 'got a little boring' and turned to Ann-Margret, Nancy Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe.

Ariana Grande played which fairy-tale heroine in a 2012 Christmas pantomime at the Pasadena Playhouse?

Snow White faced Dallas star Charlene Tilton as the Wicked Queen, while Neil Patrick Harris played the Magic Mirror without setting foot on stage: he appeared on video.

Ariana Grande's debut album drew on which 1950s vocal style?

Doo-wop was first meant to run through the whole record: in 2012 she called it '50s, 60s doo-wop-inspired', before it took on more of a 1990s R&B sound.

Nathan Sykes, Ariana Grande's duet partner on 'Almost Is Never Enough', belonged to which boy band?

The Wanted's Nathan Sykes sang the duet with her for the soundtrack of the film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and the two briefly dated.

What was the name of Ariana Grande's debut fragrance, launched in 2015?

Ari did well enough that more scents quickly followed, including Sweet Like Candy in 2016; Cloud did not arrive until 2018.

Which 2019 single teamed Ariana Grande with Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey?

Don't Call Me Angel led the soundtrack of the 2019 Charlie's Angels film, an album Grande herself executive produced with songwriter Savan Kotecha.

How many times did Ariana Grande audition before landing her Wicked role in November 2021?

She was credited under her birth name Ariana Grande-Butera in the films.

What was the original working title of Ariana Grande's third album, released in 2016?

Moonlight was 'a lovely title' but too romantic, she told fans; she chose a new name that was 'a lot stronger', to show her growth and empower them.

Which veteran songwriter-producer guided Ariana Grande's debut album toward its 1990s R&B sound?

Babyface 'watched over the project and supervised', in her words, and co-wrote and produced its second single, 'Baby I'.

Who hosted Saturday Night Live when Ariana was the musical guest on September 27, 2014?

That month also brought 'Love Me Harder' with the Weeknd, which peaked at number seven in the US.

What was the name of the South Florida youth singing group Ariana co-founded at age ten?

The group performed at charity fund-raisers and raised over $500,000 in 2007 alone.

Which single did Ariana Grande release in April 2018 as her first new music since the Manchester attack?

No Tears Left to Cry closes its video with a quiet tribute: a worker bee, the symbol of Manchester, flies toward the camera.

Which relative of Ariana Grande became, at 98, the oldest act to have appeared on the Billboard Hot 100?

Her grandmother Marjorie, credited as Nonna, charted in 2024 with a spoken message about staying in love that closes the song Ordinary Things.

Which pop icon recites a Bible verse made famous by Pulp Fiction in Ariana Grande's 'God Is a Woman' video?

Madonna reads Ezekiel 25:17 in voiceover while Grande lip-syncs inside a replica of the Roman Pantheon, then breaks its glass ceiling with a hammer.

Which reality TV matriarch plays Ariana Grande's camcorder-wielding mother in the 'Thank U, Next' video?

Kris Jenner films the dance routine in a nod to Amy Poehler's part in a 2004 teen comedy, and the video drew 55.4 million YouTube views on its first day.

Ariana Grande guest-starred as the Pickle Fairy of Hope in Kidding, a series led by which comedy star?

Jim Carrey starred as Mr. Pickles, a beloved children's television presenter, and her fairy went by the name Piccola Grande.

Ariana Grande headlined the Rift Tour, a 2021 virtual concert staged inside which video game?

Fortnite had already hosted Travis Scott and Marshmello, but her show was the first to tie in to multiple aspects of the game.

When Ariana Grande held the Hot 100's top three spots in 2019, which act had last managed it, in 1964?

The Beatles had been the only act to manage it, and Grande became the first solo artist to hold all three places at once.

Which Wicked co-star's jazz album Still Blooming features Ariana Grande singing 'I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)'?

Jeff Goldblum, the films' Wizard of Oz, fronts the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, and the 2025 record was the band's third studio album.

Which honor did Manchester City Council give Ariana Grande after her 2017 benefit concert?

Honorary citizenship, never awarded by the city before, recognized the televised concert she staged within two weeks of the arena attack, which helped raise $23 million for victims and their families.

In the 'Positions' video, Ariana Grande holds which job, chairing meetings between scenes in a kitchen?

US president is the role: she signs orders in the Oval Office and gives medals to postal workers, in a video released hours after the closing presidential debate of 2020.

For her role on Victorious, Ariana Grande had to dye her hair which color every other week, damaging it?

Red dye took such a toll during the show's run that she later wore extensions while her own hair recovered.

Ariana Grande replaced Nick Jonas as a coach on which TV talent show for its twenty-first season in 2021?

The Voice made her its highest-paid coach up to that point, at a reported $25 million for the season, and she did not return for the next one.

Which 2014 Ariana Grande Christmas single took a decade to break into the Billboard Hot 100's top five?

Santa Tell Me got there ten years after its release, becoming the first holiday song released in the 21st century to reach the US top five.

Which Motown great recorded the duet 'Faith' with Ariana Grande for the 2016 animated film Sing?

Stevie Wonder plays piano in the video while Grande walks a pavement among the film's animal characters, and the song earned a Golden Globe nomination.

Which singer duetted with Ariana Grande on the title song of Disney's 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast?

John Legend and Grande are heard over the end credits, in a version made as a homage to the pop duet recorded for the 1991 animated film.

Ariana Grande was among those paying tribute at whose funeral service in Detroit in August 2018?

Aretha Franklin's homegoing service at Greater Grace Temple also drew tributes from Bill Clinton, Chaka Khan, Smokey Robinson and Gladys Knight.

Ariana Grande joined a 2019 remix of 'Good as Hell', a sleeper hit first released in 2016 by which singer?

Lizzo scored her first top-10 single in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia once the remix with Grande arrived.

Which Wicked showstopper won Ariana Grande and her co-star the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in 2026?

Defying Gravity was filmed about a year into production because an actors' strike delayed the sequence, and the single entered the UK chart at number 7.

Which social media platform did Ariana Grande quit in December 2021, deleting one of its most-followed accounts?

Twitter had started taking a toll on her relationship to work, she explained, adding that she would rather prioritize being an artist.

After watching the documentary Blackfish, Ariana Grande urged fans to stop supporting which theme park chain?

SeaWorld's captive orcas, above all one named Tilikum, were the film's subject, and Grande has since adopted several rescue dogs and promoted pet adoption at her concerts.

Which boy band, minus its most famous singer, reunited to join Ariana Grande on stage in April 2019?

NSYNC's JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass joined her headline set, which also brought out Nicki Minaj and P Diddy.

Which actor and singer supplies the bass-voiced chorus hook on Ariana Grande's 2015 single 'Focus'?

Jamie Foxx sings the repeated title hook, on a track that was meant to launch Grande's third album but was dropped from its standard edition.

Ariana Grande impersonated which singer while duetting 'Beauty and the Beast' with Jimmy Fallon on his show in 2015?

Celine Dion recorded the song's pop version with Peabo Bryson for the 1991 film, and Grande counts her among her influences as a singer.

In 2017 Ariana Grande became a playable character, attacking with music, in a mobile game from which series?

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, made by Square Enix, offered her as a limited-time magical support character alongside an orchestral remix of her song Touch It.

Ariana Grande's 2014 Major Lazer collaboration 'All My Love' was made for a film in which franchise?

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 got the song because co-writer Lorde pushed for it on the soundtrack, which led Diplo to rush the production.

For the 2015 album We Love Disney, Ariana Grande covered 'Zero to Hero' from which animated film?

Hercules was not her first pick: Grande began with a different song before settling on Zero to Hero for the David Foster-produced album.

Which 2015 Ariana Grande single was re-released in June 2017 to raise money after the Manchester Arena attack?

One Last Time rose to a new UK peak of number two after her benefit concert, and all proceeds from the re-release went to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.

Megan Thee Stallion and which other rapper joined the 2021 remix of Ariana Grande's '34+35', lifting it to number two?

Doja Cat helped make it the highest-charting Hot 100 song credited to three or more female soloists since Lady Marmalade two decades earlier.

Which British musician, a hero of Ariana Grande's, developed the musical gloves Grande wore on tour in 2015?

Imogen Heap counted Grande among the early investors in her wired Mi.Mu gloves, and Grande has also sampled Heap's music in her own songs.

Ariana Grande voiced Princess Diaspro in Nickelodeon's revival of which Italian-created animated series?

Winx Club's American relaunch recruited well-known Nickelodeon actors for its cast and was backed by $100 million of advertising.

Which 2011 debut single did Ariana Grande later disown, saying its bubblegum pop sound was not really her?

Put Your Hearts Up interpolates What's Up?, so Linda Perry shares the writing credit, and the song was later certified Gold despite Grande's misgivings.

Which record label signed Ariana Grande after its chief executive was sent links to her YouTube cover videos?

Republic Records boss Monte Lipman got the links from a friend who had stumbled on the clips, which she recorded while filming Victorious.

Which Latin pop star inspired an eight-year-old Ariana Grande by praising her singing on a cruise ship?

Gloria Estefan's compliment is what Grande credits with inspiring her to pursue music, at an age when she was also singing with orchestras in Florida.

Which future Victorious castmate had already appeared with Ariana Grande in her 2008 Broadway debut?

Liz Gillies played Lucy in that musical before becoming Victorious bad girl Jade West, her second time working alongside Grande.

Ariana Grande's 2015 duet with Andrea Bocelli, 'E Più Ti Penso', uses music by which Italian film composer?

Ennio Morricone's themes from the films Once Upon a Time in America and Malèna supply the melody, and the words were first sung in 2010 by the trio Il Volo.

Which TV animation creator sang musical theatre songs with Ariana Grande on Carpool Karaoke in 2017?

Seth MacFarlane, the creator and star of Family Guy, is a singer with several Grammy nominations of his own, and shared an episode of the Apple Music series with her.

Ariana Grande co-wrote 'Motivation', the 2019 debut solo single by which former Fifth Harmony member?

Normani wrote it with Grande, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha and producer Ilya, and its choreography-heavy video was named the best of 2019 by Vibe.

Which Australian singer featured Ariana Grande on 'Dance to This', a 2018 single from his album Bloom?

Troye Sivan then turned up in a teaser for one of her videos that November, and added guest vocals to an extended edition of her 2024 album.

Which Broadway songwriter, also behind Godspell and Pippin, wrote 'The Girl in the Bubble' for Ariana Grande?

Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the stage score of Wicked, added it as an original track for the 2025 sequel Wicked: For Good.

Ariana Grande engineers her own vocals with which audio software, first shown to her by a rapper friend?

Pro Tools is the workstation she learned because she loves being hands-on with every project, and a co-writer has praised her for comping her own takes.

Which song did Ariana Grande perform at Stand Up to Cancer in September 2014 in memory of her grandfather?

My Everything is the somber title track that closes her second album, and her grandfather had died of cancer only weeks before the record came out.

Ariana Grande, aged eight, sang the national anthem before a 2002 home game in which professional sport?

Ice hockey's Florida Panthers were hosting the Chicago Blackhawks that January night, six years before her professional stage career began.

In June 2021 Ariana Grande teamed with an online portal to give her fans $2 million worth of what?

Free therapy came through BetterHelp, and Grande has said she first saw a mental health professional shortly after her parents' divorce.

Which Broadway star, who originated Ariana Grande's Wicked role on stage, has a cameo in the 2024 film?

Kristin Chenoweth appears beside fellow original lead Idina Menzel as one of the leading members of the Emerald City Players.

In Nickelodeon's Sam & Cat, Ariana Grande's character and her roommate start what kind of after-school business?

Babysitting drives the plots of the buddy sitcom, which earned Grande a 2014 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite TV Actress.

In which California community did Ariana Grande marry Dalton Gomez at her home in a private 2021 ceremony?

Montecito hosted the wedding that May, and her photos of it became the most-liked Instagram post featuring people at the time, with over 25 million likes.

In 2009 Ariana Grande and her half-brother taught music and dance to children in Gugulethu, in which country?

South Africa hosted the siblings as members of the charity Broadway in South Africa, with whom they performed as well as taught.

Which frequent co-writer, later a Best New Artist Grammy winner, recorded 'Better Days' with Ariana Grande in 2016?

Victoria Monét co-wrote songs for each of Grande's first six studio albums before winning three Grammys of her own in 2024.

Which musical duo shared the billing with Ariana Grande on her 2019 single 'Boyfriend', which won MTV's Song of Summer?

Social House helped it become the first song by a woman to top the Rolling Stone Top 100 chart, which it did in its debut week.

Ariana Grande played Amanda Benson in Swindle, a 2013 Nickelodeon film about kids recovering which valuable item?

A baseball card is taken by an unscrupulous collectibles dealer in the story, which is based on a children's novel by Gordon Korman.

Which British singer duetted with Ariana Grande on 2012's 'Popular Song', built on a melody from the musical Wicked?

Mika borrowed the tune of Popular, the very number Grande's own character would sing in the 2024 film of that musical.