She goes on to say that Mariah Carey is her favorite human being on the planet. She grew up listening to the songs of the 90s and credits Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and Gloria Estefan as her major influences. Her style is usually pop and R&B with hip-hop, funk and dance added in good measure. Ariana Grande musical influences and Celine Dion impression ‘One Last Time’ is being regarded as her best video till date.Īriana Grande has won many awards including New Artist of the Year at 2013 American Music Awards, two Grammy nominations, Breakthrough Artist of the Year by Music Business and many others. Her second album ‘My Everything’ in 2014 reached number one in the US with hit singles ‘Break Free’, ‘Bang Bang’ and ‘Problem’ get high number of Youtube views and spending more than 35 weeks on the top ten of Billboard Hot 100.
The single ‘The Way’ from the album was a huge hit with critics and fans comparing her to the likes of Mariah Carey. She became the first female artiste after Kesha to have her debut album reach top of the charts. She released her first studio album ‘ Yours Truly’ in 2013 which reached the number one position on the US Billboard 200. The CEO Monte Lipman was impressed and signed her to a recording contact. Someone who knew the CEO of Republic Records, saw one of her videos and sent the links to him. When she was shooting for Victorious, Grande made recordings of her singing to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and recorded them on Youtube. Grande who is a hypoglycemic, worked with vocal coach Eric Vetro to work on her vocal range. Her music career started off with the sound-track Music from Victorious (2011) Ariana Grande as Cat Valentine in Victorious (Pictures) But while she liked acting, she was passionate about her musical carrier. The show became extremely popular with youngsters and Ariana Grande became a familiar face. While Gillies got the role of ‘Jade West’, Grande got the role of Cat Valentine, the friend of protagonist Tori Vega(Victoria Justice).
She auditioned for the TV show ‘Victorious’ with Elizabeth Gilles who was of the same age, as she, in 2009.
By the age of 13, she had set her sights of becoming a professional singer, while doing theater and stage plays. Grande studied in two schools, Pine Crest and North Broward Preparatory. As a child, she even had her national TV debut singing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ for Florida Panthers, the professional ice hockey team.