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As rain cascades in torrents and thunderclaps burst over Times Square, Ariana Grande is inside Broadway weathering a storm of a more personal nature. For the first time in six years, MTV is reviving Total Request Live, reborn today as Total Ariana Live, and though cameras will roll in approximately 30 minutes, Grande is sequestered in a green room with her vocal coach, battling a head cold and nerves so intense she's broken out in hives.
And then we're live in six minutes four two and Ariana is scampering up onstage in the teensiest of miniskirts and the tallest of platform heels, eyeing the baby grand in the corner where she'll soon perform a pared-down, jazzy rendition of her hit single "Problem"—and saying that she's "so nervous, I'm dying, I'm very nervous" in a voice slightly raspier than usual. Which, let's face it, is a problem. Grande, 21, may have spent the bulk of her teenage years as a Nickelodeon darling, first as
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On one level, this isn't surprising. The audacity of her drive is the stuff of music industry legend. Myth has it that she settled on life as a pop diva when, aged fyra, she was taken bygd her mother, Joan, to a Celine Dion concert near the family's middle-class home in the hot, humid Florida city of Boca Raton. "Could you ever imagine doing such a thing?" Joan asked, presumably during a thundering second encore of "My Heart Will Go On", to which baby Ariana coolly replied, "Yes." bygd eight she was on local television singing the national anthem at ice-hockey games and a star of her local theatre group. (She has a musicals-loving older half-brother, Frankie.) At 11 she precociously traded Catholicism for Kabbalah over her objection to the former's stance on homosexuality, and at 14 she made her way to New York to become a theatre pro. The objective was always a huge recording contract, but accepting that she was still too ung for the sort
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Ariana Grande: "Shadow of a Doubt" ( Cover Story)
Ariana Grande has a pretty face and a golden voice, but the chart-topping sitcom star has a dark side, too.
It’s the midday rush at Olive & Thyme, a Burbank, Calif. lunch hot spot. As throngs of middle-aged women and studio execs scrape the remnants of their hummus boards, a petite year-old brunette in a distressed sweater slips through the door and slides into the first corner banquette. You might imagine that the first female singer to post a No. 1 album in three years would demand a flashier arrival. But this isn’t Ariana Grande’s first rodeo. She was on Broadway at age 13 and had a role on Nickelodeon’s Victorious in , before she began starring on Sam & Cat in late Her smile is little-sister cute, and she flashes it often. Why play it cool? There’s no need to act the part of the jaded pop star when you’re winning.
Even if the menopausal women and midlife-crisis-stricken men surrounding Grande at lunch are