{"id":264049,"date":"2018-12-22T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/baby-ariana-grande-watch-the-singer-belt-out-celine-dion-songs-as-child\/"},"modified":"2018-12-22T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:40:03","slug":"baby-ariana-grande-watch-the-singer-belt-out-celine-dion-songs-as-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/baby-ariana-grande-watch-the-singer-belt-out-celine-dion-songs-as-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Ariana Grande! Watch the Singer Belt Out Celine Dion Songs as Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181122\/rs_1024x759-181222143333-1024.ariana-grande-celine-dion.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Ariana Grande, Celine Dion\" alt=\"Ariana Grande, Celine Dion\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Ariana Grande\/Instagram; Jason Merritt\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.416790490342\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.291233283804\">\n<p>Even when she was a preschooler,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was a singing sensation\u2014and a fan of carpool karaoke.<\/p>\n<p>The now-25-year-old, one of the most popular singers, posted on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BrtDREnA-xU\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> page on Saturday a throwback video of her as a child,\u00a0sitting in a car with her family and belting out\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/celine_dion\">C\u00e9line Dion<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s ballad &#8220;The Reason.&#8221; The song was released in 1997, when Grande was 4 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Put it from the beginning Frankie!&#8221; she tells her brother,\u00a0<strong>Frankie Grande<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In another video, Ariana and mom\u00a0<strong>Joan Grande<\/strong> duet on Dion and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/barbra_streisand\">Barbra Streisand<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a01997 song &#8220;Tell Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still sing this,&#8221; Ariana wrote. &#8220;She&#8217;s still Barbara and still this stunning and cute if not more so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.6875\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.4510869565217\">\n<p>Ariana is a known fan of Dion and can even\u00a0do a great impression of her, as well as other female pop stars, as seen on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/748203\/ariana-grande-hosts-snl-does-impressions-of-jennifer-lawrence-whitney-houston-and-sings-about-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/de\/news\/638305\/ariana-grande-does-celine-dion-impression-sings-beauty-and-the-beast-with-jimmy-fallon-watch\" target=\"_blank\">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.3448275862069\">\n<p>&#8220;When I met Celine she told me, she was like, &#8216;When I saw you, I peed!'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/749003\/celine-dion-did-the-unthinkable-after-watching-ariana-grande-s-spot-on-impression-of-her\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana said on\u00a0<em>Elvis Duran and the Morning Show<\/em><\/a> in 2016. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a big fan. I&#8217;m a really big fan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.020452099031\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.998923573735\">\n<p>Ariana has been performing professionally since she was a child, appearing in community theater productions of shows such as <em>Annie<\/em>, <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> and <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>. In 2008, at age 15, she starred in the Broadway musical\u00a0<em>13<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ariana remains a devoted Broadway fan\u00a0and\u00a0returned\u00a0to her musical theater roots with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/981761\/you-ll-melt-watching-ariana-grande-perform-the-wizard-and-i\" target=\"_blank\">performance on the NBC special\u00a0<em>A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway<\/em><\/a> several weeks ago. She also belted out\u00a0songs from Broadway musicals with\u00a0<em>Family Guy<\/em> creator and crooner\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/seth_macfarlane\">Seth MacFarlane<\/a><\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=05gJdTKoFBU\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Music&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Carpool Karaoke<\/em> series<\/a>. Ariana has also appeared on the original segment on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/960598\/ariana-grande-rides-james-corden-to-starbucks-on-carpool-karaoke\" target=\"_blank\">The Late Late Show With James Corden<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, she and <em>13\u00a0<\/em>co-star <strong>Elizabeth Gillies<\/strong> were cast on the Nickelodeon series <em>Victorious<\/em>, which made them nationally famous TV stars. Ariana began her professional music career two years later, with the release of her first single, &#8220;Put Your Hearts Up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/998998\/baby-ariana-grande-watch-the-singer-belt-out-celine-dion-songs-as-child?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande\/Instagram; Jason Merritt\/Getty Images Even when she was a preschooler,\u00a0Ariana Grande\u00a0was a singing sensation\u2014and a fan of carpool karaoke. The now-25-year-old, one of the most popular singers, posted on her Instagram page on Saturday a throwback video of her as a child,\u00a0sitting in a car with her family and belting out\u00a0C\u00e9line Dion&#8216;s ballad &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 17:25:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}