Ariana GrandeButera born June 26 1993 is an American singer songwriter and actress Her personal life and music have been the subject of widespread media attention Grande has received numerous accolades throughout her career including two Grammy Awards one Brit Award one Bambi Award two Billboard Music Awards three American Music Awards nine MTV Video Music Awards and 30 Guinness World Records Grande began her music career at age 15 in 2008 Broadway musical 13 She rose to fame for playing Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious 20102013 and Sam Cat 20132014 Grande signed with Republic Records in 2011 after label executives viewed YouTube videos of her covering songs Her 1950s doowopinfluenced pop and RB debut album Yours Truly 2013 topped the US Billboard 200 while it is the lead single The Way reached the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100 She continued to explore pop and RB in her second and third studio albums My Everything 2014 and Dangerous Woman 2016 Dangerous Woman became her first of four consecutive numberone albums in the UK Personal struggles influenced her trapinfused fourth and fifth studio albums Sweetener 2018 and Thank U Next 2019 Sweetener won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and Thank U Next broke the record for the largest streaming week for a pop album and was nominated for Album of the Year The singles Thank U Next 7 Rings and Break Up with Your Girlfriend Im Bored made Grande the first solo artist to hold the top three spots on the Hot 100 simultaneously and the first woman to succeed herself at the top of the UK Singles Chart In 2020 Ariana collaborate on Rain on Me with Lady Gaga who win the Grammy Award for Best Pop DuoGroup Performance Grande expanded on the trap genre with her sixth studio album Positions 2020 which both the album and its title track debuted at number one in the UK and the US Her collaborations with The Weeknd on the remixes of Save Your Tears and Die For You garnered her sixth and seventh US numberone singles respectively In 2024 she earned another two number one singles with the high anticipated releases of Yes And We Cant Be Friends both on her 7th studio Album Eternal Sunshine She also made her acting return playing Glinda in the broadway adaptation of Wicked Wicked Part 1