Ariana Grande's Childhood Analysis

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In Boca Raton, Florida, on June 26, 1993, Ariana Grande was born. Which makes her twenty-two years old now. Ariana's parents are Joan Grande and Edward Butera, they both come from the Italian descent. Right before she was born, her parents moved from New York to Florida. Unfortunately, when Ariana was nine years old, her parents split up. Ariana has an older brother, named Frankie Grande. Frankie is a musical theatre actor and producer, who is thirty-three years old. He was also on Big Brother 16, the show had aired in the month of June in 2014. Ariana is very close with her family, but she was even closer with her grandfather that recently passed away on July 22, 2014 due to cancer. When sh was 8 years old, she sang on a cruise ship

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