Ariana Grande

Age: 33

female

Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an Italian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a pop icon and an influential figure in popular music, Grande is known for her four-octave vocal range, which extends into the whistle register. Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, two Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, 39 Guinness World Records, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. She began her career as a teenage actress by appearing in the Broadway musical 13 (2008). She rose to fame as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious (2010–2013) and its spin-off series Sam & Cat (2013–2014). Grande signed with Republic Records and released her retro-pop and R&B-influenced debut studio album, Yours Truly (2013), which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. She blended pop, R&B, and electronic on her second and third albums, My Everything (2014) and Dangerous Woman (2016), which both achieved international success and contained the singles "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang", "One Last Time", "Into You" and "Side to Side". Personal struggles influenced Grande's trap-infused albums Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019). The former won Grande her first Grammy award, while the latter garnered US number-one singles "Thank U, Next" and "7 Rings", and made her the first solo artist to occupy the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100. She subsequently achieved the most number-one debuts in Hot 100 chart history with the title track of her sixth album, Positions (2020), as well as the collaborations "Stuck with U" and "Rain on Me". After a musical hiatus, Grande released her seventh album, Eternal Sunshine (2024), which yielded the US number-one singles "Yes, And?" and "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)". She returned to film acting with the political satire Don't Look Up (2021) and received critical praise for her portrayal of Glinda in the fantasy musical Wicked (2024), earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Ariana Grande

Lyra

for Lyra in Starfall

Suggested by mr95

Starfall

She fell from a star. She learned what love sounds like from a child who had never heard music. Starfall is an original Broadway musical about a celestial being named Lyra who falls to Earth and must learn to be human within a single year or lose the ability to return to her realm. Her guide is an eight-year-old girl named Iris who is profoundly deaf and experiences music through vibration and light rather than sound — which transforms Lyra's entire understanding of what her voice actually is. The musical has fifteen original songs spanning from Lyra's celestial arias to Iris's vibration-pieces (performed with the full orchestra visible and conducted through lighting cues synchronized to the beat). The central love story is between Lyra and Finn, a human musician who is grieving the loss of his ability to hear following an accident, who falls in love with someone who cannot explain why sound matters and accidentally teaches him to hear differently. Runtime: 2h 45min. Act One Highlights 'The Fall' (Lyra descending — the musical's opening number, pure voice over minimal orchestration). 'What Is This?' (Lyra encountering Earth's sensory world). 'Iris Speaks' (the first Iris-Lyra duet, performed in ASL and song simultaneously). Act Two Highlights 'The Year Is Almost Gone' (the show's emotional center — Lyra understanding what staying would cost). 'One More Sound' (Finn and Lyra's Act Two duet). 'Starfall (Reprise)' (the finale, the full company, the theatre dark except for starlight).

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