Ariana Grande
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.
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
Hmm Why Is It That She Looks Like Every Mexican Girl I’ve Seen? I Would Have Never Guessed She Was Italian. Maybe Half, But She Has Amerindian Features That Mexican Girls Have.
She has posted on Twitter she has some Greek and North African (Morocco or Tunisia) in her.
she’s still caucasian so what are you proving?
I’m saying something that she has confirmed on her Twitter and there is nothing wrong with that.
@ Person you’re clearly delusional .She’s not caucasian ,she’s not from caucasus .
The Greek and North Africa is just from a dna test. Most Sicilians if they have a dna test will get some Greek and North African. She is still Sicilian or Italian.
I never said anything about a DNA test, I just said what she tweeted, little girl.
All Sicilians have North African and Greek influence in their dna. This is just part of being Sicilian.
It doesn’t necessarily mean a recent North African or Greek person in her family. She also specified a chart which makes it likely this was a dna test.
http://dienekes.blogspot.com.au/2008/08/sicilian-y-chromosomes-greek-and-north.html
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v17/n1/full/ejhg2008120a.html
Who is the little girl you are referring to?
@Alice What are you trying to say? What’s wrong with her saying that she has Greek & North African in her? If she wants to, she can. Because I embrace my ethnicities and I’m proud of all mine.
I’m just trying to point out that every Sicilian will have these components in their ancestry and that it is part of being Sicilian. It is not recent ancestry but older components. She’s not any different than anyone else of that ethnicity. It would be like someone from Normandy in France saying they are Norwegian because Normandy has a Scandinavian component.
even in Sicily there’s the same “Scandinavian” component because of Norman rule
Sicilians don’t come up with much if any Scandinavian in their dna so the Normans possibly were a ruling elite and didn’t affect the population that much whereas Greek and North African appear to be very much a part of Sicilian genetics.
Another reason why Scandinavian isn’t showing in Sicilians is that the amount of Normans would have been small e.g. a ruling elite.
there’s haplogroup I in Sicilian dna that’s typically Nordic
Y-DNA haplogroup I is a European haplogroup, representing nearly one-fifth of the population. It is almost non-existent outside of Europe, suggesting that it arose in Europe. Estimates of the age of haplogroup I suggest that it arose prior to the last Glacial Maximum.
The two main subgroups of haplogroup I likely divided approximately 28,000 years ago:
•I1-M253 et al has highest frequency in Scandinavia, Iceland, and northwest Europe. In Britain, haplogroup I1-M253 et al is often used as a marker for “invaders,” Viking or Anglo-Saxon. The I1b-M227 subclade is concentrated in eastern Europe and the Balkans and appears to have arisen in the last one thousand to five thousand years. It has been reported in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Croatia, and Lebanon.
•I2-M438 et al includes I2* which shows some membership from Armenia, Georgia and Turkey; I2a1-P37.2, which is the most common form in the Balkans and Sardinia. I2a1a-M26 is especially prevalent in Sardinia. I2a2-M436 et al reaches its highest frequency along the northwest coast of continental Europe. I2a2a-M223 et al occurs in Britain and northwest continental Europe. I2a2a1-M284 occurs almost exclusively in Britain, so it apparently originated there and has probably been present for thousands of years.
I found this about Sicily
At least 7%, but more probably over 10%, could be of Norman origins. The highest frequencies of the typically Nordic haplogroup I1 were observed around Caccamo, near Palermo, representing almost one third of the samples.
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v17/n1/abs/ejhg2008120a.html
Sicily is a very interesting little island. Quite a varied amount of people have went there.
Here is a distribution map of I1-M253. I don’t know how up-to-date it is.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~villandra/McKinstry/I2b1/haplogroupI1.gif
A map of Viking expansion. Those Vikings raided quite a large area especially coastal.
http://webperso.mediom.qc.ca/~steeve21/I1d/viking_expansion.png
Sicily is relativily small but heavily populated (5 millions). Any migration has left a mark, for example they’ve found Greek genes in Southern France and R1b in Lebanon (due to Crusaders, most likely)
North Africans have nothing to do with Latin-Americans. People think she looks Latina because Latin-Americans themselves have Southern European ancestry. Italians are Southern European/Mediterranean, just like Spaniards. Spanish people also have North African ancestry, like South Italians (Ariana Grande’s heritage).
I don’t see it…
I’m sorry can one really “look” mexican or any nation ? no .you can not look a culture or nation .A person can only look like themselves people look the way they look at there natural state because God created them ,God wanted us (human beings and all creatures ; all of what’s on earth) to look just as it was intended.
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@Alice yeah, I get that already, but if she wants to say what her roots are, she can. It’s not a bad thing lol
No she doesn’t, and this is coming from a mexican girl who tested predominately native-american.
She cant be just white, I’ve seen pictures of her when she was younger and her hair is naturally curly.. Shes probably mixed with something else.
even though she has straight hair, if you have curly hair it doesnt mean you are “mixed” with something. Well, you’re young. You will learn that.
Oh okay, I’m sorry . I just thought that because I’ve never seen a white person with curly hair, most of them have thin, straight hair. But thank you for informing me on this :) appreciate it
That’s becoz most whites have straight hair. Curly hair examples.
http://www.esportif.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/0000PJ11F.jpg
http://images.pitchero.com/ui/151868/1344856327_0.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Joseph_Washbourn_(Toploader)_Godiva_Festival_2009.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JxU6lTpc4cw/0.jpg
http://i3.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article5389288.ece/alternates/s2197/duncan.jpg
I’m a white person with ultra thick and curly hair, it’s normal I assure you :D
Looks like a typical white girl in my area.
Man this girl is so average looking.
Seen some people say she looks Mexican too? Where are her Native American features at?
http://i.imgur.com/URSrU9O.jpg
No where…
Any proof that’s Ariana Grande. It doesn’t really look like her…
She is a WHITE italian girl! Her tan is FAKE!
Pictures of her before she was famous
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6qCg9TvdGKU/T08XZBN0mpI/AAAAAAAAAOo/aYLsbf4Dbm4/s1600/tumblr_lfphnxNdS61qe17wio1_400.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z7ZS3fMERe8/T08XmJpgv_I/AAAAAAAAAOw/EmhIteDeO8A/s1600/Broadway%252BCast%252B13%252BVisits%252BPlanet%252BHollywood%252BTimes%252B5Wu8-gkzsSOl.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yTaCZd3H5KE/T08XMu5lwKI/AAAAAAAAAOg/pWdpdWaTNaU/s320/gallery_ariana_gallery.jpg
Now she is claiming to be North African, yeah right!
Can’t you guys see she is trying to appeal to minorities with her fake tan! She is WHITE girl!
She looks like she has non-white admixture. Thats not 100% white looking to me.
She looks like a typical Italian! Are you blind?
nah, “typical” Italian girls look better. She looks like a 16 years old midget and that “Bang Bang” single is the worst pop song I’ve ever heard.
You may not like her music, but you can’t deny she’s very attractive. I live in Adelaide and there are LOTS of Italians here but so far I haven’t seen any Italian girls that are prettier than Ariana.
why so many Aussies on this site?