- Her name was inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat.
- Her natural hair colour is brown, but she dyed her hair to red velvet for her role of Cat in Victorious, since Dan Schneider didn’t want all cast members to be brunettes. Her hair is also naturally curly.
- She has a big brother named Frankie James Grande. He is also a performer and producer and went on tour with her as one of her dancers.
- Her fashion icons are Marylin Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.
- Her favorite cereal is Cocoa Puffs.
- Her favorite episode of Victorious is Survival of the Hottest.
- She’s allergic to cats (ironically, her character on Victorious loves them and is called Cat). She is also allergic to bananas.
- On Dec. 15th, she admitted on Twitter that she’s allegedly allergic to bananas, shellfish and some cough medicines.
- 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.
- She has a birthmark on her left shoulder/back and a dimple in her left cheek.
- She loves Celine Dion and Imogen Heap.
- She’s a huge techno-junkie and uses Garage Band to create remixes of her favorite songs using an Apple computer, a LOOP keyboard, and a home studio, seen on this video.
- She’s a fan of the Harry Potter series. Coincidentally, there’s a character named Ariana (Ariana Dumbledore) in the books.
- Her favorite character in Harry Potter is Luna Lovegood and Draco Malfoy.
- She loves swimming.
- She used to collect stuffed animals, hockey pucks, and Halloween masks.
- Her favorite colors are periwinkle blue, marshmallow white, sea foam green, and coral/pale pink.
- She was on Brainsurge and wore a pink t-shirt and skinny jeans. She had 130 points, allowing her to move onto the next round, being the only girl to compete. But then she lost, along with Carlos (from Big Time Rush) and was the first one to slide down “The Brain Drain”. The episode aired on April 21st 2011.
- She is studying Spanish.
- She is quite famous for her secret talent of impersonations.
- She currently lives in L.A. Her house is over 100 years old and was previously owned by Francis Ford Coppola, the director of The Godfather.
- Ariana enjoys watching the hit TV show Gossip Girl.
- Her first crush was Justin Timberlake (she was three).
- She has a dog named Coco.
- She doesn’t eat meat except for fish. She has never eaten catfish.
- She went to her first concert, a Katy Perry concert, in the summer of 2011.
- She says she can’t stand it when you smile at a stranger and they don’t smile back.
- She is hypoglycemic (her blood sugar gets low). As a result, she once ate in class and was put into detention. In the end, her mother took her out of it.
- The first time she ever ate a taco was when she was in the Victorious episode, The Breakfast Bunch.
- One her best friends, Jennette McCurdy, accidentally made her phone number public.
- On December 10, 2011, she reached a million followers on Twitter.
- Ariana put her hands in cement at Planet Hollywood, New York, on December 22th, 2011.
- The Huffington Post named Ariana Grande the 3rd most influential actress online above Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Aniston and asked her to represent the voice of her generation by becoming their featured high-school section journalist.[9]
- Ariana wrote a news article about bullying.
- Twitter fact: The World Bank, the world’s largest development organization, follows Ariana on Twitter.
- Broadway for South Africa, the organization that Ariana supports, used her debute single, “Put Your Hearts Up”.
- The Put Your Hearts Up music video was released on the 14th of February (Valentines Day).
- Ariana’s birthday is the same as Jennette McCurdy’s.
- Ariana has over 1.4 MILLION followers on twitter and has been named one of the Most Asked Actor Online above Charlie Sheen and Reese Witherspoon. This means, online, people ask Ariana for her favorite trends, music, products, etc. more than any other actor online. She has received over 200 world-wide trending topics for a cash value of $240,000,000 and continues to be one of the most influential people online. She is the 37th most retweeted person on twitter and ranks in the 100% percentile of klout.com’s influencers.
- Ariana has a demo CD which she hasn’t realeased after 4 years. She posted previews of some songs in her CD, called Rollercoaster, Let It Rain and Higher.
- Her favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate.
- Her favourite topping is rainbow sprinkles.
- She thinks penguins are cute.
- Her favourite subject is science.
- Her favourite candies are Smarties and Razzles.
- Her favourite fruit is strawberry.
- Her favourite types of movies are romance and comedy.
- She loves hair bows, dolphins, British accents, polka dots.
- Ariana is quite the talented rapper.
- She attended North Broward Prepatory School. Once, she filmed her teacher shouting at her.
- Ariana’s favorite One Direction song is “One Thing”.
Meghan trainor
Here are 10 facts about the 20-year-old US singer-songwriter taking the world and its radio airwaves, by storm.
1. She has been doing this music thing a while.
She started writing songs when she was 11, later producing them on her computer age 13.
At 18, she signed a songwriter deal with Big Yellow Dog music, penning tracks for Rascal Flatts and current Disney star Sabrina Carpenter (Girl Meets World).
In 2011, she wrote and self-released a full-length album called I’ll Sing With You.
2. In fact, Meghan was in a band with her family
The group consisted of her parents, uncle, aunt and her little brother. Together they performed at local bars and would play Soca-inspired music since her uncle is from Trinidad and Meghan loved the sound.
3. She plays a LOT of instruments
In addition to singing, this talented young lady plays guitar, keyboards, trumpet, ukulele, and percussion.
4. All About That Bass almost didn’t happen
(Picture: YouTube) Co-writting the track with Kevin Kadish (Miley Cyrus, Joe Jonas), she reportedly had trouble finding someone to take it, telling Out: ‘I wrote the song and started pitching it for like four months and no one wanted it.’
It must have been fate, because she then decided to keep it for herself, where it went on to be a number one single across the globe, including in the US where it kicked Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off from the top spot.
5. Justin Bieber is a fan, even putting his own, erm, ‘unique’ stamp on All About That Bass:
6. She learned to dance from Beyonce
Shockingly she claims that she had never danced prior to the All About The Bass video – with the exception of dancing in her bedroom to Beyonce.
7. This gal knows how to score touchdowns as well as hit singles
For three years at school not only did she play on both the girls and boys American football teams, she was the only girl!
8. Her fans have the coolest sounding collective ever – they call themselves ‘Megatrons':
‘They will send me a selfie with an essay of how they hated their lives and they hated themselves and they didn’t want to go to school, they were bullied forever, but now they heard the song and they just burst into tears,’ she told MTV News.
‘And they are happy and they dance around the house, and I read this and I’m like, “Whose this for?” I’m effecting people; it’s insane.’
9. She’s a huge cat lover
10. She’s All About That Bass:
ed Sheeran
- Hs full name is Edward Christopher Sheeran.
- Ed was born February 17, 1991.
- He was born in Halifax, England but grew up in Framlingham in Suffolk.
- His father is is an art curator and lecturer and his mom is a jewelry designer.
- Ed went to Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. When he was being interviewed on The Johnathan Ross Show in 2012, Ed showed Jonathan a picture of one of his former teachers, Mr Wheeler, because he thought they looked alike.
- His love for music begin at a very young age, singing in the church choir at the age of 4. He learned guitar at a young age as well.
- Music runs in his family - his older brother Matthew is a composer of classical music.
- Ed Sheeran began to record his own songs at a very young age. In 2005 he released The Orange Room EP which features four tracks - I Love You, Addicted, Misery and Moody Ballad Of Ed.
- Ed's next album was released in 2006 and was named "Ed Sheeran".
- It featured tracks such as Open Your Ears, Beyond The Pale and Insomniac's Lullaby.
- Sheeran moved to London in 2008, and in 2009 he played more than 300 live shows and gigs.
- He released the EPs You Need Me in 2009 and Loose Change in 2010.
Source: Tumblr - His 2011 EP No. 5 Collaborations Project was the record that firmly established Ed Sheeran in the pop music mainstream - it charted at number 2 in the iTunes download chart even though Ed wasn't signed by a record label.
- His debut album (not including self-released records) was called +.
- All four of Ed's guitars have names...they are Lloyd, Felix, Cyril, and Nigel.
- Ed shared his writing skills with boy-band One Direction co-writing the song "Moments" for their debut album which was released in November of 2011.
- He is 5' 10" tall.
- Ed was nominated for a GRAMMY for Song of the Year for his hit single "The A Team," but lost to Fun. for "We Are Young."
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Eva Rinaldi - Ed performed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. What an honor!
- Ed wears size 10 (UK) shoes.
- His favorite rapper is Eminem and has said he would love to meet him one day.
- The video for Lego House features Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter movies).
- Sheeran briefly dated Australian Big Brother star, Camilla Severi. They are no longer together, but remain friends.
- His track "Little Lady" was a dark reworking of "The A Team" featuring rapper Mikill Pane. Listen to it below:
- Amongst Sheeran's tattoos are a ketchup bottle and a cup of tea.
- He shares the same birthday as Paris Hilton.
- Elton John is a massive Ed Sheeran fan - they dueted at the Grammy Awards.
- Ed lists some of his musical influences as The Beatles and Van Morisson.
- One of his favorite TV shows is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and to show his love, he even has the word Prince tattooed on his arm.
- He gave Harry Styles a tattoo of a padlock.
- Sheeran wrote "Small Bump" about his friends losing a child. "I wrote it from their perspective. It was my perspective looking on them to begin with. It's quite a touchy subject, so I wrote it from the perspective of actually being the parent."
Source: Tumblr - His fans are called Sheerios.
Source: Wikipedia / Eva Rinaldi - He is the proud holder of a Nando's Black card. "I've got one, yeah. It's sick. I got it a couple of months ago and I've been rinsing it. I always go for medium, though. I like to enjoy my food rather than just challenging myself. I mean I can handle it, but I can't handle the next day, when, er, you know, it resurfaces."
- He likes to keep his facial stubble because it makes him look older. He told the Telegraph, "I look about 12 when I shave."
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Eva Rinaldi
- He see's all his music in colors. "All my songs have colours..."You Need Me I Don't Need You" for example is "aubergine". It's a sad song about struggling."
- Taylor Swift contacted Sheeran after hearing his music while touring Australia in March 2012. He later co-wrote and provided vocals for "Everything Has Changed", a single featured on Swift's fourth album Red. Released in October 2012, it was the biggest-selling new album of 2012 and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2014 Grammy Awards.
Source: Tumblr - Sheeran got a Red tattoo to mark the career opportunity and remarked, "I think Taylor's just opening up a lot of doors and it's up to me to make sure that I get through to them. It's a massive opportunity for me and I want to make sure to grab it with both hands."
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Eva Rinaldi - Sheeran released his first single in two years, "I See Fire", to be featured in the end credits of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as well as on the film's soundtrack. Although it appears on the deluxe edition of Sheeran's upcoming album, "I See Fire" is not being used to promote x.
- Sheeran's second studio album is titled x (read as "multiply"), and is scheduled for a worldwide release on 23 June 2014. He recorded the album in Los Angeles with legendary producer Rick Rubin, who advised Sheeran to record the album acoustically with a good mood; extra instrumentation was added later.
Source: Tumblr - He is a philanthropist. Sheeran performed a gig in Bristol, which raised £40,000 for a charity that reaches out to street sex workers. "It's good to show insight that these people are real people with real emotions and they deserve the same charity work as anyone else," Sheeran said. "There's a lot more popular charities that get a lot of attention. And with certain subjects like this they're often washed over and people don't necessarily give them the attention they deserve."
- In 2012, Sheeran purchased a farm near Framlingham, Suffolk where he grew up, which is currently undergoing renovation. He has stated that he hopes to raise a family there.
Source: Deviant Art / marieditionsda - In 2012, Ed supported Snow Patrol on their US tour.
- He has been romantically linked with fellow British folk singer, Nina Nesbitt.
- In April 2014, Ed released a song that was about how Ellie Goulding cheated on him with One Direction singer Niall Horan.
- He imparts wisdom. "There's no key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."