Demi Lovato

**Demetria Devonne Lovato** ({{/ləˈvɑːtoʊ/ lə-VAH-toh; born August 20, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. After appearing on the children's television series *Barney & Friends* (2002-2004), she rose to prominence for her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel musical television film *Camp Rock* (2008) and its sequel *Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam* (2010).

## Early life and career=

Lovato was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna De La Garza (née Dianna Lee Smith) and engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato. She has an older sister named Dallas; a younger maternal half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza; and an older paternal half-sister named Amber, whom she first spoke to when she was 20.

Lovato's parents divorced in mid-1994, shortly after her second birthday. Lovato's father was of Mexican descent, with mostly Spanish and Native American ancestors, and came from a family that has been living in New Mexico for generations; he also had distant Portuguese and Jewish ancestry. Her mother is of English and Irish ancestry. Through her father, Lovato is a descendant of Civil War Union veteran Francisco Perea and Santa Fe de Nuevo México governor Francisco Xavier Chávez. Lovato claims that through DNA testing she discovered that she is also of 16 percent Scandinavian descent and one percent of African descent.

Lovato was raised in Dallas, Texas. She began playing piano at age seven and guitar at ten, when she also began dancing and acting classes. In 2002, she began her career on the children's television series *Barney & Friends*, portraying the role of Angela. Lovato said in an interview on *The Ellen DeGeneres Show* that due to her acting career she was bullied so harshly that she asked for homeschooling, and received her high-school diploma through homeschooling in May 2009, one year early. In 2006, Lovato appeared on *Prison Break*, and on *Just Jordan* the following year.

## Career

Lovato has released six studio albums: *Don't Forget* (2008), *Here We Go Again* (2009), *Unbroken* (2011), *Demi* (2013), *Confident* (2015), and *Tell Me You Love Me* (2017); all of which debuted in the top five of the *Billboard* 200. She has earned nine top-20 tracks on the *Billboard* Hot 100 with "This Is Me", "Here We Go Again", "Send It On", "Skyscraper", "Give Your Heart a Break", "Heart Attack", "Cool for the Summer", "Sorry Not Sorry", and "I Love Me". In total, she has sold over two million albums and 20 million singles in the United States. On television, Lovato has starred as the titular character on *Sonny with a Chance* (2009–2011), served as a judge and mentor on *The X Factor* in its second and third seasons, and appeared as a recurring character on *Glee*. Her struggles with personal issues attracted significant media attention in the 2010s; in response to which she published the book *Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year* (2013) and released a YouTube documentary about her life and career, titled *Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated* (2017).

Lovato is a pop, pop rock, and R&B artist. She has received various accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, 14 Teen Choice Awards, five People's Choice Awards, and two Latin American Music Awards. She also holds one *Guinness World Record* and *Time* magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017. Outside the entertainment industry, Lovato is an activist for several social causes.

## References

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4. ↑ SUE EMMONS and DONALD SMITH. Family Tree Maker.
5. ↑ Payne, Chris. Demi Lovato's Father Dies. *Billboard*. Retrieved on June 22, 2013.
6. ↑ Happy 24th Birthday Dallas Lovato February 4, 2012. Disney Dreaming. Archived from the original on February 8, 2012. Retrieved on February 4, 2012.
7. ↑ Yao, Laura. "Disney Demi-Goddess", *The Washington Post*, June 21, 2008. Retrieved on March 11, 2013.
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9. ↑ Jensen Shaffer, Jody (2013). *Demi Lovato: Taking Another Chance*. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications. ISBN 978-1467715515.
10. ↑ KISS FM UK (September 22, 2015). Demi Lovato finds out she's Jewish!?. Retrieved on March 10, 2017.
11. ↑ "The Hollywood Reporter Names the Young Hispanic Hollywood Class of 2013", *The Hollywood Reporter (hollywoodreporter.com)*, November 22, 2013. Retrieved on May 14, 2020. “In honor of her Mexican-American father,”
12. ↑ Murphy, Nicola (March 15, 2014). How Irish ancestry links Demi Lovato, Megan Fox and Olivia Wilde. Retrieved on May 14, 2020.
13. ↑ Twitter. Retrieved on August 23, 2017.
14. ↑ Somos Primos. Diario El Carabobeño. Retrieved on October 5, 2013.
15. ↑ Smith, Courtney (February 26, 2017). Demi Lovato Says She's 1% African. *Refinery29*. Retrieved on February 27, 2017.
16. ↑  (2009) *Biography Today*. Detroit, Michigan: Omnigraphics. ISBN 978-0-7808-1052-5.
17. ↑ "Biography Today", p.105
18. ↑ Demi Lovato and B.o.B.. Viacom (December 18, 2012). Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved on March 7, 2013.
19. ↑ Bryson, Carey. Demi Lovato The Disney Star Machine Does It Again. IAC. Retrieved on March 11, 2013.
20. ↑ Culbertson, Caroline. "Demi Lovato in rehab: Dad blames Hollywood, acting for her issues", *New York Daily News*, November 2, 2010. Retrieved on March 10, 2013.
21. ↑ Demi Lovato Graduates High School. Walt Disney Company (April 23, 2009). Archived from the original on April 7, 2010. Retrieved on July 27, 2011.
22. ↑ Ask Billboard: Demi Lovato's Career Album & Song Sales (October 15, 2017).

## External links

* Demi Lovato links at FreeOnes
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* Demi Lovato on  Famous Birthdays
* Demi Lovato on  Famous Fix
* Demi Lovato article at *Wikipedia*
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* Demi Lovato News page at Twitter