Ariana Grande
Grande in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Ariana Grande-Butera
Place of Birth: Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 26, 1993
Ethnicity: Italian [including Sicilian]
Ariana Grande is an American singer and actress. She has starred on the shows Victorious, Sam & Cat, and Scream Queens, and appeared in the film Don’t Look Up. Her most popular songs include “The Way,” “Problem,” “Break Free,” “Bang Bang,” “Love Me Harder,” “Focus,” “Dangerous Woman,” “Side to Side,” “No Tears Left to Cry,” “God Is a Woman,” “Thank U, Next,” “7 Rings,” “Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored,” “Boyfriend,” “Stuck with U,” “Rain on Me,” “Positions,” “Save Your Tears,” and “Die for You.”
Her mother, Joan Grande, has been CEO of the family firm, a manufacturer of communications and safety equipment. Her father, Edward Butera, owns a graphic design firm. Her parents are of Italian descent. She stated on her Twitter account that she is of half Sicilian and half Abruzzese Italian ancestry. Her maternal half-brother, Frankie Grande, is an actor, dancer, and musician. Ariana is married to real estate agent Dalton Gomez.
A picture of Ariana’s father can be seen here, and a picture of some of her father’s family can be seen here. A picture of Ariana’s mother can be seen here. A picture of Ariana’s paternal grandfather can be seen here, and a picture of Ariana with her maternal grandparents can be seen here.
Ariana’s paternal grandfather was Anthony Vincent Charles Butera (the son of Carlos/Charles Antonio Butera and Marie/Mary Passalaqua/Passalacqua). Anthony was born in New Jersey. Ariana’s great-grandfather Charles was born in New Jersey, to Italian parents, Antonino Butera and Magherita Azzara/Azzala, from Menfi, Provincia di Agrigento, Sicily. Marie was Italian. The surname Butera is Sicilian.
Ariana’s paternal grandmother was Florence P. Citrano (the daughter of Enrico “Henry” Cetrano and Lucia “Lucy” Ciarfella). Florence was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Italian emigrants, from Civitaquana, Abruzzo. Enrico was the son of Carmine Cetrano and Giulia/Julia Trabucco. Lucia was the daughter of Ascenzio Ciarfella and Margherita Taddeo.
Ariana’s maternal grandfather was Frank Anthony Grande (the son of Antonio “Anthony” Grande and Filomena/Felmino “Philomena”/”Phyllis” Lavenditti). Frank was born in New York, to Italian parents. Antonio was born, c. 1900, the son of Raffaela/Raffaele V. Grande (b. 1876) and Sabato/Rose Cardalisca (b. July 1877, in Lanciano, Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy), and moved to the U.S. in May 1903. Ariana’s great-grandmother Filomena was the daughter of Francesco Lavenditti/La Venditti and Benedetta Perrotti. Ariana’s grandfather also had roots in Bojano and Gildone, in Campobasso.
Ariana’s maternal grandmother is Marjorie M. Damico (the daughter of John Viovanni Damico/D’Amico and Felomina F. “Minnie” Gigante). Marjorie was born in New York, to Italian parents, with roots in San Fele, Potenza, Basilicata.
Ariana also once twitted that she “just found out my grandparents are heavily greek and part north African,” and then specified “…the chart says Greece/Italy. I just thought it was funny. I’m assuming the North African bit is Moroccan or Tunisia?”
Ariana’s reference to “the chart” makes it likely that she took some sort of DNA test to map out her heritage. DNA tests for people of Sicilian descent sometimes indicate some kind of Greek or North African ancestry.
Grande in 2013, photo by Prphotos.com
Sources: Genealogies of Ariana Grande – https://www.geni.com
https://2.bp.blogspot.com
Ariana’s paternal grandfather, Anthony Vincent Charles Butera, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Ariana’s paternal grandmother, Florence P. (Citrano) Butera – https://www.obrienfuneralhome.com
History of Ariana’s maternal grandparents, Frank Anthony Grande and Marjorie M. Damico – https://www.youtube.com
Ariana’s half-brother, Frankie Grande, 2008, photo by Prphotos.com
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Sicilians have Middle Eastern and North African admixture in them, so she probably is part Middle Eastern.
Interestingly I just saw an update in her family tree, with surnames like Passalacqua (literally “pass the water”), D’Amico, La Venditti (after the more common Venditti). These are the correct ones.
She is white looking at the features of the face and not the color of the skin. There are a lot of people considered white but they have typical Shrek features. In England or even in Ireland there are people like her who tan in the summer because they find the extremely pale color very ugly. Ariana is beautiful, doubtful that she will grow old soon, for she has a youthful appearance. Ariana will never go through a black woman even in the summer of Africa, because she has excellent DNA typical of the white family.
@Obey “Shrek features” so Italians or any non Aryan Europeans have “Shrek” features? Just say you think we’re all ugly because we’re not “pure” like you. Also your last sentence has slight racist undertones.
There was a controversial Norwegian football referee who had been mocked as looking like Shrek:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Henning_%C3%98vreb%C3%B8
https://sport.sky.it/calcio/champions-league/2010/02/19/fiorentina_champions_ovrebo_facebook_visita_oculistica.html
Let’s see what YOU look like? Because usually the most ugly people are the ones who consider anyone who are non-white (and vice versa) ugly are the MOST ugly — people to work the face of the earth! I bet you look like the evil “high witch” on the inside after you remove your mask!
Non white? Then everyone’s non-white lol, human skin colour varies in certain degrees of brown.
Europeans are beige, bisque reddish brown etc, the curiosity is unreal
FreedomThinker88, if you have nothing nice to say go away. no one on this website is ugly or looks like the evil “high witch”. If you say otherwise you will have to write a five page apology letter AND DON”T EVEN THINK ABOUT DOUBLE SPACING IT!!!!
I expected to see that she was mainly hispanic, or even partly Middle Eastern or Indian/Pakistani. I certainly didn’t expect Italian, her features are definitely more non-European.
I have read some of your posts and you’re a shame to humankind.
You have more stereotypes in your comments than the most hardcore 20 IQ Nazis from the 1940s.
That excuses your blatant antisemitism, and stereotyping Europeans on here that aren’t blond and statuesque as “Jewish looking” and “exotic”? ?
Would you rather me call you a self loathing Jew?
You’re highly offensive Neil and have spammed posts here with the most embarrassing and toxic comments, and you are a determent to this site.
This site has real potential and YOU crap all over the comments sections.
“That excuses your blatant antisemitism, and stereotyping Europeans on here that aren’t blond and statuesque as “Jewish looking” and “exotic”? ?”
YOU shouldn’t be accusing ANYONE of antisemitism, given the things I’ve seen you post.
She doesn’t look any of those things. She looks Italian European white. Get over it.