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Ariana Grande’s Celine Dion Impression is Crazy Accurate

Ariana Grande is one of the world’s most acclaimed pop singers. She rose from the ranks of Nickelodeon stardom to become a pop diva, famous all over the world. Grande has managed to reinvent herself over the years, and her songs are consistently popular with thousands of fans. Standards like “Thank U, Next,” “Bang Bang,” …

Ariana Grande is one of the world’s most acclaimed pop singers. She rose from the ranks of Nickelodeon stardom to become a pop diva, famous all over the world. Grande has managed to reinvent herself over the years, and her songs are consistently popular with thousands of fans. Standards like “Thank U, Next,” “Bang Bang,” and “No Tears Left to Cry,” remain radio favorites even months and years after their initial release. Grande is supremely talented and has several hidden skills that only her most dedicated fans know about – including a unique skill at doing impressions that she unleashed on a segment of “Carpool Karaoke.”

Ariana Grande performing
Ariana Grande | Rich Polk/Getty Images for iHeartMedia

How did Ariana Grande become famous?

Ariana Grande was born Ariana Grande-Butera in Florida in 1993. When she began performing at a young age, she decided to drop the latter part of her name, going simply by Ariana Grande. When Grande was a young child, she began singing and acting with local theater companies, appearing in productions like Annie, Beauty and the Beast, and The Wizard of Oz. Her talent was recognized quickly and when she was thirteen years old, she moved with her family to California to pursue a career in entertainment.

Her big break came in 2009 when she was cast in the Nickelodeon show Victorious. As the performing arts student Cat Valentine, Grande was able to flex her vocal muscles as well as show off her acting ability. The show gave her the opportunity to launch her musical career, beginning with cover tunes before eventually writing and producing her own songs. Her first studio album, Yours Truly, was a hit immediately upon release, paving the way for even more popular album releases to come. 

Ariana Grande is known for her impressions

As Ariana Grande’s popularity began to grow, she started to earn more and more fans. She also started making the rounds to various talk shows, opening up about her unique quirks and talents. People began to realize that Grande is incredibly skilled at doing celebrity impressions. One of Grande’s most popular impressions is her take on Britney Spears. Grande perfectly mimics Spears’ signature singing style, copying her unique raspy voice.

Grande is also well-known for her impressions of Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Coolidge, Shakira, and Whitney Houston. Grande is even adept at copying singers who have completely different vocal styles than her own, like famed Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee. However, Ariana Grande’s most famous (and arguably her most pitch-perfect impression) is the one she does of the pop diva Celine Dion. 

Ariana Grande does a wicked good Celine Dion impression

Ariana Grande has shown off her Celine Dion impression several times over the years. Grande is a huge fan of Dion and started mimicking the Canadian songstress when she was only a toddler, as a throwback video revealed. Once Grande achieved worldwide fame, she continued paying tribute to her hero by doing her Dion impression on talk shows such as The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

On a 2018 episode of “Carpool Karaoke” with James Corden, Grande unveiled her Celine Dion impression yet again. Not only was James Corden momentarily speechless at the perfect way that Grande copied Dion’s singing, but the comments on the YouTube video showed that fans were equally impressed. One poster stated that “if I had a voice like her (Grande) I would never shut up.” Although Grande and Dion have not yet collaborated together, surely it is only a matter of time until the world-famous diva Celine Dion and the pint-sized pop star work on some sort of special project.