{"id":143857,"date":"2025-06-18T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=143857"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:21:36","slug":"ariana-grande-says-goodbye-to-her-beloved-nonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ariana-grande-says-goodbye-to-her-beloved-nonna\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande says goodbye to her beloved Nonna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong> is mourning a deep personal loss. On Tuesday, June 17, the pop icon shared that her cherished grandmother, <strong>Marjorie \u201cNonna\u201d Grande<\/strong>, had passed away peacefully at home at the age of 99. Ariana reposted a touching tribute from her mom, Joan, who called Marjorie the heart of their family. Surrounded by loved ones in her final days, Nonna left behind a legacy of love and strength that the family is now holding close.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1935058611689890231\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ariana Grande shares that her Nonna, Marjorie Grande, has sadly passed away at the age of 99. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/StF4M47Bmt\">pic.twitter.com\/StF4M47Bmt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1935058611689890231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Taking to <strong>Instagram<\/strong>, she posted a photo of Nonna and her husband, Frank, on their wedding day, captioned with the word \u201cForever.\u201d Nonna was one of Ariana\u2019s biggest inspirations; she encouraged young Ari to chase the stage early on, helping spark her career by pushing her to audition for the musical Annie. Nonna was often by her side on red carpets and even appeared on Ariana\u2019s song \u201cOrdinary Things,\u201d where she dropped some heartfelt wisdom about love:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c&#8221;It is very easy, and as I told her \/ Never go to bed without kissin&#8217; goodnight \/ That&#8217;s the worst thing to do, don&#8217;t ever, ever do that \/ And if you can&#8217;t, and if you don&#8217;t feel comfortable doing it \/ You&#8217;re in the wrong place, get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1780329539387957475\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ariana Grande\u2019s Nonna poses with her plaque for oldest person in history to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kTeAKkalL0\">pic.twitter.com\/kTeAKkalL0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1780329539387957475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ariana Grande\u2019s brother, <strong>Frankie<\/strong>,\u00a0 also posted a heartfelt tribute, remembering his grandmother as his \u201csafe place\u201d and his \u201cbest friend.\u201d He spoke of her life lessons, unshakable hugs, and how much she shaped who he is. The Grande family is grieving, but they\u2019re also celebrating a woman who left a major impact through the love she radiated right up until the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande is mourning a deep personal loss. On Tuesday, June 17, the pop icon shared that her cherished grandmother, Marjorie \u201cNonna\u201d Grande, had passed away peacefully at home at the age of 99. Ariana reposted a touching tribute from her mom, Joan, who called Marjorie the heart of their family. Surrounded by loved ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":143858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264],"tags":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-143857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment","9":"tag-ariana-grande"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}