Ariana Grande
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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. 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.
![Ariana Grande 41st Annual American Music Awards - Arrivals](http://ethnicelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ariana-Grande2.jpg)
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
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Ariana’s half-brother, Frankie Grande, 2008, photo by Prphotos.com
ok , sorry but sicilian people not look like arabs … o.0
i’m sicilian and more sicilian have Danish ancestry!!!!
(Norman invasion)
Ex: MIRIAM LEONE , she his 100 % sicilian!
she look is arab ??
http://i2.listal.com/image/3417387/600full-miriam-leone.jpg
just a couple of people proves nothing
to be clear
Mafia boss
http://livesicilia.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Tot%C3%B2-Riina-foto-segnaletica.jpg
Many Sicilians look Arab. And for a very good reason; many of them ARE Arab. It was occupied by Arabs for longer than the US has been a country. Arab was the official language there for so long that even today the Sicilian dialect is often incomprehensible to mainland Italians because it has so much Arab influence and loan words (the word “mafia” is derived from Arabic).
Sicily is only part of Italy politically. They aren’t ethnically or genetically the same as mainland Italians. They are as likely to be Arab, Greek, Norman (i.e. Germanic) or Berber (North African) as they are to be Italian (i.e. the indigenous inhabitants of the Italian peninsula).
It’s just an accident of history that it’s part of Italy. It might well have ended up part of France (in which case we’d call them “French”) or Tunisia (in which case we’d call them Tunisian) or became an independent island nation like Cyprus or Malta. The average Albanian or Swiss probably has more Italian ancestry than the average Sicilian.
lol..study History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sicily
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilians
Did you read the links you posted?
They support what I said.
it’s crazy
“It’s just an accident of history that it’s part of Italy. It might well have ended up part of France (in which case we’d call them “French”) or Tunisia (in which case we’d call them Tunisian) or became an independent island nation like Cyprus or Malta.”
study again the history of Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_of_the_Thousand
Genetically they’re close to Greeks, there are many studies about that.
Language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language
She is Mediterranean. She looks Mediterranean 100%
if you are unfamiliar with the the terminology than go to Wikipedia and search for Mediterranean people.
She does look Mediterranean and could well be “100% Mediterranean” (“100%” in quotes because NOBODY is “100%” anything).
But there are no Indians (in the New World sense of the term) in the Mediterranean and her eyes have a subtle slant to them which is typical of Latin-Americans with Indian admixture. So that, coupled with the fact the she is from Florida, leads me to suspect that she is probably part Hispanic.
She looks like every southern Italian/Greek girl I’ve ever seen in my life. I hope people realize that many Greeks and southern Italians share an immense amount of DNA. Roman-Greco, ring any bells? Some Sicilians (on the southern portion of the island) may also possess a TINY amount of Spanish, Norman (French), or Caucasian Arab Berber (Spanish, French) DNA, also. To say that she looks like “this’ or “that” is really idiotic. You can take anyone (in a biased manner) and say they look like “this” or “that” ethnicity. There’s many ethnicity’s on earth that look similar, and they in fact share ZERO DNA.
I’m Northern Italian and I have those exact same eyes. doe eyed and all, Lei e una bella ragazza
I thought she was part african
Part North African maybe but not black African.
North african especially morocco is also kind of hispanic because it was first spanish and then it became an arab country spaniards still are in control of some parts of morocco