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
Hi guys, i’m italian and i live in Italy since always. Precisely i live in Naples, which is in Southern Italy. Anyway, i don’t think she’s fully italian. She doesn’t really look like one, trust me. I mean, there are sure people who are really dark with olive skin and brown eyes/hair here, not very frequent (at least where I live) but they definitely don’t look like her. There’s something about her face that makes me think she might be latina too. Don’t get me wrong, I’m just giving my opinion as an italian. Even though it might be pointless since most of the Italian-Americans i have met, or at least the one who claim they’re fully italians, tend to look very Turk or Arabian, i don’t know why.
Peace xx
She is full Italian, as am I. I wish I could post a pic….
If Pia Toscano not Italian? How about Miss Universe Olivia Culpo? Olivia’s own family say she looks like the italian side…Only Olivia is 25% Irish….
You have no right to claim an Italian doesn’t ‘look’ full Italian. What is the Italian look? We are some of the most mixed peoples in all of Europe…you are not pure blood either dear.
Italy as a country is not uniform and many from northern Italy wouldn’t fit into Palermo etc.
Stop speaking for everyone
Latina? Ok. It’s official, you are ignorant.
She even tells you exactly what kind, the girl knows what she is.
Just annoyed by our ignorant friend above us…
I hate ignorance ya know?
agree. Maybe it’s just the pic
LOL I get that all the time. I get asked if I’m Turkish or Hispanic and I’m totally Italian(American), there is no Hispanic blood in me(who knows about Turkish or Arabian, it’s all Mediterranean there could be some centuries old mxing there).
It may have to do with the type of people who immigrated from Italy in 19th/early 20th century. Millions of people left, maybe a they took a lot of a certain “type” with them and so there are fewer in modern Italy.
Turks are different from Southern Europeans, Americans are clueless. Example
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Umut_Bulut_GS_(1).JPG
You can’t find this phenotype in Iberia, Italy or Greece
link
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/umut-bulut-no-jogo-do-qualificador-do-campeonato-do-mundo-de-romnia-turquia-33543981.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Umut_Bulut_GS_(1).JPG
What did you find on Marjorie?
My 14 Day Trial for ancestry.com is up. :[ So I can’t look. If I could, I would use it to look up more about Megan Fox and Stacie Orrico.
So far, it’s looking good. She just might be full-blooded, although Florence could have another ethnicity in her as well. With a name like Citrano, though, you know she is partly Italian. Probably full.
this picture makes her look hispanic..
she just looks like a typical white girl in these pictures:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SA7aknIksh4/TwL4qc5yvfI/AAAAAAAABL4/WxpQzAo1UiI/s1600/ariana+grande+curly+hair.jpg
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/18400000/Ariana-ariana-grande-18433565-405-306.jpg
Hispanic is not a race when will you get it! Original Hispanics are actually white wow (Spaniard hellooo?) and even most nowadays are (in Latin America) and they can be black, Asian, NA… and other mixed groups BESIDE Mestizo, which they aren’t even mainly (in some countries yeah but all in all about 40% are whites making that race their runner up race if I could say that…) and it’s called fake tan :)
Wow that’s the first time I saw Ariana with her Brown hair. Am not gonna lie, she seriously looks Mexican or I should say Latina. Really dark hair, tanned, Brown almost Black big eyes.
But she’s Italian! Get over it. She’s Caucasian, White, a c$%^^&r whatever you wanna call it. ;D Imma be honest I been to Italy most Italians don’t look like this, there’s alot of blondes so saying Italians aren’t White. Isn’t accurate.
But I hear alot of people saying. She looks Latina. For a reason. But people gotta accept she’s not. xp
You Mexicans always want to refer to ppl as Mexican.shes not Mexican she is Italian .if they girl says she’s Italian I don’t get why you Mexicans ate in here calling her Hispanic.she knows her own race
“You Mexicans” Seriously? Get your head out of your ass. I’m Hispanic, I don’t think Ariana looks Hispanic at all. Its this picture in particular that makes her seem more racially ambiguous. BTW I have not seen one comment here of a “Mexican” claiming her to also be Mexican.
I’ve notice more people of other ethnicities (Caucasians in particular) refer to every person of Latin/Hispanic heritage as Mexican because their dumb asses cant tell the difference.