Sweet Facts About Ariana Grande, Music's Dangerous Woman

January 20, 2017 | Sammy Tran

Sweet Facts About Ariana Grande, Music's Dangerous Woman


The beautiful and talented Ariana Grande truly does it all. She acts, sings, dances, and even finds time to support local charities.  She was named by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 influential people in 2015. Right when she seems to be at the top of her game she seems to just keep on surprising everyone and jump to the next level. I think it is safe to say that Ariana Grande certainly has our attention. Here are 32 awesome facts about dangerous woman Ariana Grande.


Ariana Grande Facts

1. Dangerous Woman

She’s obsessed with Halloween and scary things in general. Despite her cheeky pop disposition, Ariana is weirdly into horror fare. “I wish every day were Halloween,” she confessed to Us Weekly. “I’ve had a sick obsession with horror movies since I was little.”

Ariana Grande World Premiere Event On The Honda Stage At The iHeartRadio Theater Los AngelesChristopher Polk , Getty Images

2. Girl is on top

She is the first female artist to have her first two albums debut at No. 1 since 2010. Both Yours Truly (2013) and My Everything (2014) debuted at the top spot on Billboard’s 200 chart. The last person to achieve this feat? Queen Susan Boyle, of course.

Ariana Grande attends Billboard's 13th Annual Women in Music galalev radin, Shutterstock

3. Stay watchful and alert at all times

She loves hockey and used to attend every home game of her beloved Florida Panthers. One source reports hockey pucks have hit her on more than one occasion, which is only just a tad bit terrifying. When she was 8, Ariana sang the national anthem at one of those Panthers games.

Jonathan Bailey, Zawe Ashton and Ariana Grande watching Carlos Alcaraz vs Novak DjokovicKarwai Tang, Getty Images

4. Love animals or hate vegetables?

She’s vegan. Because Ariana loves animals more than humans, she firmly believes in eating a full “plant-based” diet and pretty much sticks to “veggies, fruit, and salad”. After watching Blackfish (2013), she urged her fans to stop supporting SeaWorld.

Ariana Grande at the 2016 American Music AwardsTinseltown, Shutterstock

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5. And I thought it was natural

She is a natural brunette. She dyed her hair velvet red for the role of Cat Valentine on Victorious (2010) because the rest of the cast were brunette. Creator/executive producer Dan Schneider didn't want everyone to have brown hair.

Ariana Grande Jason Merritt, Getty Images

6. Frankie’s big break

She has an older brother, Frankie Grande (aka Frankie James Grande), who is 11 years older than her. He's also a performer and producer, and went on tour with her as one of her dancers. Fans might remember Frankie from Big Brother (2014).

2010 MTV Movie Awards - Arrivals.Stuart C. Wilson, Getty Images

7. The good life

She is a hardcore pet lover. She has six dogs and her love for the canines is evident in the dog beds that you’ll find in every nook and corner of her house. She makes sure her pooches—Coco, Ophelic, Fawker, Cinnamon, Sirus Black and Teulouse—have the best of everything and she loves to spend time with them.

Singer Ariana Grandelev radin, Shutterstock

8. Is it bad?

Her iconic ponytail is to hide hair loss. For her role in Victorious, she used to dye her hair red on an almost weekly basis. This resulted in some unexpected hair loss. "I had to bleach my hair and dye it red every other week for the first four years." Grande also revealed that she wears extensions in a ponytail and prefers to have brown hair.

One Love Manchester Benefit Concert. Ariana Grande.Getty Images staf, Getty Images

9. Inspiration comes in many forms

Her full name is Ariana Grande-Butera. She is of Italian descent and is half Sicilian and half Abruzzese. She was born on June 26, 1993. Her parents chose her name for her after being inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat.

Princess OrianaParamount, Felix The Cat

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10. The Matriarch

Ariana, who loves baking and gardening, says she definitely didn't get her homemaker traits from her mother. "My mom is a CEO and owns a company that manufactures communications equipment for the Marines and the Navy, so she's not really the housewife type, if you get what I'm saying. She's the most badass, independent woman you'll ever meet - not the cookies-in-the-oven type."

Ariana Grande Noam Galai , Getty Images

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11. Hit ‘em high

The album, produced by super-producer Babyface, showed a maturing Grande, and 1990s soul influences from by pop diva Mariah Carey. Ariana has a four octave light lyric soprano vocal range. She has been dubbed as the "mini Mariah Carey" and the "new Mariah Carey" by critics due to her wide vocal range.

Ariana Grande on stage.Catrina Maxwell, Getty Images

12. What a girl wants

Ariana Grande was in relationship with Nathan Sykes a member of the British-Irish boy band ‘The Wanted’. The couple however parted ways after a short while and since then the pop diva has had two more relationships with web video star Jai Brooks and hip hop recording artist Big Sean.

Ariana Grande Performs On The Honda Stage At The iHeartRadio Theater In Los Angeles.Kevin Winter , Getty Images

13. What goes around comes around

She was raised a Roman Catholic but abandoned Christianity after Pope Benedict reportedly labeled homosexuality and working women (sex workers) as sins. Grande stated, "I lost faith when the Pope decided to tell me that everything I loved and believed in was wrong. I needed something else to believe in." She has since started following Kabbalah's teachings, believing "the basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you."

Ariana Grande on a Concert Stage in New York.Larry Busacca , Getty Images

14. Twitter AMA’s

Ariana Grande has 43 million of followers on Twitter, and she has been named ‘the most asked actor online’, ranking above Charlie Sheen and Reese Witherspoon. She ranks 37 among the most re-tweeted people of all time on Twitter.

Reese Witherspoonlev radin, Shutterstock

15. Take the girl out the screen, Can’t take the screen out the girl

The pop diva returned to television with a guest appearance on Scream Queens in 2015, and she hit the big screen in a cameo appearance in Zoolander 2 in 2016. She also starred as Penny Pingleton, Tracy Turnblad's best friend, in NBC's Hairspray Live! in December 2016.

Ariana Grande20th Century, Scream Queens

16. Triple threat

Grande has become a popular host of Saturday Night Live, bringing her musical and acting talents to the show.She is known for her uncanny impersonations of fellow pop divas Britney Spears, Shakira, Rihanna, Celine Dion and Whitney Houston displayed in a skit spoofing the streaming service Tidal.

Ariana GrandeNBC, Saturday Night Live

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17. Yeeeaaaaaah, no.

Ariana’s fan base are called Arianators. However on 27th March 2014, Ariana said she wanted her fan base to be called “the loves” rather than Arianators, since then she frequently tweets to her fans calling them ‘my loves’, this didn’t catch on!

Ariana GrandeTristan Fewings, Getty Images

18. The Good, the bad, and the strange

She is a huge fan of the Harry Potter series. – There’s actually a character named Ariana (Ariana Dumbledore) in the books. Her favourite characters in the series are Luna Lovegood & Draco Malfoy.

RUPERT GRINT as Ron WeasleyGinny Yaya, Flickr

19. Everyone’s a DJ these days

She’s a huge techno-junkie and uses Garageband to create remixes of her favorite songs using an Apple computer, a LOOP keyboard, and a home studio. She joined Youtube on 21/1/2007. Her most watched Youtube video is her cover of Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep” with over 28,000,000 (28 million) views.

Ariana Grande is seen on November 16, 2023 in New York CityDAMEBK/Bauer-Griffin, Getty Images

20. Love runs deep

Ariana has three tattoos, including one on her side of the word "bellissima," her grandfather's nickname for her. Her grandfather, Frank Grande, passed away on July 22, 2014 from cancer. Arianna announced her sad loss late on the 22nd, via Twitter, with the words "I lost you to the summer wind."

In this image released on May 27, Ariana Grande performs onstage at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music AwardsKevin Mazur, Getty Images

21. Get in the flask

Ariana believes in demons, as she told Complex magazine. "I used to have a folder called ‘Demons’ that had pictures with all the screencaps [presumably screen captures of demons] in it, but then weird things started happening to me so I deleted it." She insisted she had had an experience with demons after visiting a cemetery in Kansas City. "I took a picture and there are three super distinct faces in the picture — they're faces of textbook demons," she told the magazine. She needs to say off r/nosleep.

Ariana Grande at he 58th GRAMMY Awards held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, USA on February 15, 2016.Tinseltown, Shutterstock

22. Be strong, girl

Ariana no longer has a relationship with her father. “It’s private, but it happened last year. It took me so long to be okay with it. The thing that got me there was embracing the fact that that I am made up of half my dad, and a lot of my traits come from him. So much of me comes from my father, and for so long, I didn’t like that about myself.”

Ariana GrandeFeatureflash Photo Agency, Shutterstock

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23. If you don’t have anything nice to say…

Ariana has admitted that she curses like a sailor. "I absolutely do. I’m Italian! I wish I could less. But I don’t know why people are so shocked by me. I guess it’s because of the character I played so long being such a goody two-shoes."

Ariana Grande Stuart C. Wilson, Getty Images

24. Big MAC deal

Ariana states her fashion icons as Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. In early 2016, she launched, with MAC Cosmetics, a line of lip shades called “Ariana Grande’s MAC Viva Glam,” which truly captures her style. All of the profits will benefit people affected by HIV and AIDS.

Marilyn Monroe circa1953Bert Parry, Wikimedia Commons

25. Whatever floats your boat

Ariana believes that one of her exes cheated on her with a guy. Speaking of one of her songs, she's said: It's about a boy who cheats on a girl with another boy... It's one of my favorites on the album, and it's really funny because I believe it has happened to me. I'm not 100 percent positive, but I'm 99.9 percent positive."

Ariana GrandeKevin Winter , Getty Images

26. Finally, the credit he deserves

Although Jim Carrey’s film Bruce Almighty did not get very high ratings and did not do so well in the box office, Grande really likes it. She said that the 2003 movie is the “greatest movie ever” in an interview. She also cried the first time she met Jim Carrey.

Ariana GrandeKathy Hutchins, Shutterstock

27. Friends in high places

She went to her first concert, a Katy Perry concert, in the summer of 2011. And it wasn’t too long ago, either! Katy is certainly a fan of Ms. Grande. She’s gone on record saying that Arianna has the “best female vocal in pop music today.”

Ariana Grande on One Love Manchester Benefit Concert.Getty Images staf, Getty Images

28. Don’t look down

She has said in an interview that she is terrified of heights. However, she then went on to say that she loves riding roller coasters. She loves theme parks, and one of her favorite nights is Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights.

 Ariana Grande bravely roamed the terrifying streets of Halloween Horror Nights 24 at Universal Orlando ResortHandout , Getty Images

29. Pure class

Unlike her hypersexual pop music peer, Miley Cyrus, Ariana favors being a bit more demure. "I like Barbra Streisand, and when was the last time you saw Babs getting, like, turnt up? That's kind of the road that I, as a lady, would like to go down," she told Cosmopolitan. She has openly admitted she's "not comfortable enough to be forwardly sexual."

Barbra Streisand attends the CHANEL DinnerRich Fury, Getty Images

30. They don’t make ‘em like they used to

Grande definitely counts some contemporary artists among her musical role models — like India.Arie, Imogen Heap, and Frank Ocean — but much of her inspiration also comes from decades past. "My favorite era was the '50s and '60s… the Chiffons, the Shangri-Las," she revealed to The Guardian. "My grandparents played it and I fell in love with it, because it was more about romance and love, and less about getting drunk and going home with someone you don't know."

Gettyimages-1202200848 Ariana Grande attends the 62nd Annual GRAMMY AwardsAxelle/Bauer-Griffin, Getty Images

31. Discovery

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.

Ariana Grande at Nickelodeon's 26th Annual Kids' Choice Awardss_bukley, Shutterstock

32. The girl that never sleeps

When she's not performing, the pop superstar supports various charitable causes including Kids Who Care, a group she co-founded that raises money for charities in the South Florida region. She also has cultivated a massive social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, and landed on Time magazine's list of "The 100 Most Influential People" in 2016.

Ariana Grande in red sweatercelebrityabc, Flickr

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13


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