Ariana Grande has gained recognition both as a singer-songwriter and an actress over the years. However, not many of Grande's fans are aware of her talents as a voice-over artist.
Ari has voiced several characters for animated movies and series over the years, with one of them being Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club. Grande voiced the character of Princess Diaspro in Winx Club.
According to Ariana Grande's fandom, Nickelodeon first announced her as the voice for Princess Diaspro in the revival of the series in a 2011 press release.
The first season, released that year, contained six special episodes to catch the audience up to everything that happened in the series up until that point. From 2012, the show ran for four seasons, with each one having 26 episodes, concluding in September 2019.
Ariana Grande's character in the animated series is a "spoiled" princess
Princess Diaspro - the character Ariana Grande voices - is a spoiled princess who was previously the fiancée of Sky. After their engagement was broken off, Sky fell in love with Bloom - the protagonist of the series - and the two are in a relationship.
As is characteristic of a spoilt princess, Diaspro is always willing to do anything to get what she wants and appears to be preoccupied with trying to get between Sky and Bloom throughout most of the series.
The story of Winx Club is set in a magic dimension, where only creatures like fairies, witches, and monsters live. The namesake club is made of seven fairies, Bloom - the fairy of dragon flame; Flora - the fairy of Nature; Roxy - the fairy of animals; Musa - the fairy of music; Tecna - the fairy of technology; Aisha - the fairy of weaves; and Stella - the fairy of shining sun.
All these friends, who are also students of the Alfea College of Fairies, go on different adventures to unlock new powers, hone their magic, and protect their planet from evil.
It seems like Ariana Grande wasn't the only Nickelodeon star to join the Winx Club voice-over team. Elizabeth Gillies, her close friend and co-star fromVictorious - was also a voice-over artist for the animated series; Gillies voiced Daphne on the show.
Winx Club isn't the only animated work that Ariana Grande has voiced in
Surprisingly, Winx Club isn't the only animation that Ariana Grande has worked in as a voice-over artist. The Positions singer also voiced the English dub of the 2011 Spanish animated adventure film, Snowflake, the White Gorilla.
The movie follows the fictional childhood story of Snowflake - the only albino gorilla in the world.
The story of the movie follows Snowflake, who is the central attraction of the zoo she is held in, because of her unique color. Because Snowflake doesn't feel like she fits in the zoo, she attempts an escape plan with the help of an eccentric red panda named Ailur, and ultimately finds a witch who helps her become normal again.
While Snowflake was portrayed as a male in the original movie, in the US version, it becomes a female.
Besides Grande voicing Snowflake, her co-star from Sam & Cat - Jennette McCurdy - was also a voice-over artist in the movie, and voiced Petunia in the movie. Snowflake, the White Gorilla released in the USA on September 1, 213
Ariana Grande's most recent voice-over project was Underdogs - a 2016 animated movie revolving around Amadeo, a young boy who has to defend his crown as the reigning football king of table football in his town.
Grande voiced the character of Laura - Amadeo's love interest - in the animated movie.