Demetria Devonne Lovato

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Birth name:  Demetria Devonne Lovato

Born:            August 20, 1992 (age 19) Dallas, Texas, United States

Genres:         Pop rock

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, actress, musician, dancer, model, activist

Instruments:  Vocals, guitar, piano

Years active:  2002–present

Labels:    Hollywood

Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato (born August 20, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. Her ancient roles included Angela on Barney & Friends, afore she became bigger accepted for her starring roles in the Camp Rock movies, as Sonny Munroe in the Disney ball Sonny with a Chance, and as the brilliant of the 2009 cine Princess Protection Program. She is aswell complex in altruistic activities through alms plan and assorted amusing and ecology causes.

As a abandoned agreeable artist, Lovato appear her admission anthology Don't Forget on September 23, 2008. The anthology debuted at  on the Billboard 200 affairs 89,000 copies in the aboriginal week. It has back alien over 500,000 copies earning a Gold acceptance in the United States. Lovato appear her additional album, Here We Go Again, on July 21, 2009. The anthology debuted at on the Billboard 200, affairs 108,000 copies in the aboriginal week.

Life and career

Childhood and youth

Lovato was built-in in Dallas, Texas on August 20, 1992 to Patrick Lovato and Dianna Hart de la Garza. She is of Mexican, Irish, and Italian descent. She has an earlier sister, Dallas Lovato, and a adolescent bisected sister, Madison de la Garza. Her mother was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and country music recording artist. Lovato began arena piano at the age of seven. Lovato aswell began her acting career at the age of seven on the children's television alternation Barney & Friends as Angela, actualization in seasons seven and eight alongside continued time acquaintance Selena Gomez. In an account with Ellen DeGeneres, Lovato appear traveling through aching adventures with blowing in the seventh grade. According to Lovato, the blowing was so bad that one day, in a fit of annoyance and distress, she requested her mom accord her a home-schooled education.  Lovato becoming a top academy authority through homeschooling in April 2009. Lovato aswell declared in an account with 20/20 in 2011 that she had had a "really ailing accord with food" back age 8 due to blowing accomplished as a child, and self-mutilated her wrists to cope with her affections and abasement back age 11. Lovato after became a agent for anti-bullying alignment PACER and appeared on America's Next Top Model and CNN to allege out adjoin bullying.

In 2006 Lovato bedfellow starred on Prison Break as Danielle Curtin in the adventure "First Down." She aswell appeared in the additional division of the television ball Just Jordan as Nicole, in the adventure "Slippery When Wet." In January 2007, she landed the role of Charlotte Adams on the Disney Channel Aboriginal Short Series, As the Bell Rings, which premiered on August 26, 2007. A few of her aboriginal songs, including "Shadow," were featured on the show.

007–09: Camp Rock, Don't Forget and Sonny with a Chance

In the summer of 2007, Lovato auditioned for the Disney Channel television blur Camp Rock and the television alternation Sonny with a Chance in the aforementioned day and got both parts.For Camp Rock, she submitted an audience band and Gary Marsh, Disney's admiral of entertainment, asked her to sing. he sang Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Added Man", and Hollywood Annal chief carnality admiral Bob Cavallo said that their "jaws just dropped".Lovato accustomed the advance role in Camp Rock,and a almanac accord with Hollywood Annal in aboriginal 2008.In Camp Rock she played Mitchie Torres, a fourteen-year-old babe with hopes of acceptable a singer. The cine premiered on June 20, 2008 in the United States on the Disney Channel with 8.9 actor viewers, authoritative Lovato a domiciliary name a part of adolescent viewers. She provided vocals on four of the songs featured on the Camp Rock soundtrack, including "This Is Me" featuring Joe Jonas. he song ailing at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. In June and July 2008, Lovato performed at assorted House of Blues and parks for her Demi Live! Warm Up Tour in alertness for the absolution of her admission anthology and the Burnin' Up Tour with the Jonas Brothers. Lovato served as the abutment act on the Jonas Brothers' Burnin' Up Tour from July through September 2008.

Lovato's admission album, Don't Forget was appear in the abatement of 2008. The aggregate of the anthology was co-written with the Jonas Brothers, who aswell produced the anthology with John Fields. They co-wrote ten songs in a anniversary during the band's headlining Look Me in the Eyes Tour.The anthology is of the pop-rock brand and is lyrically agnate to added teen-pop albums. It ailing at amount two on the Billboard 200, affairs 89,000 units in its aboriginal anniversary of release. It has back awash over 500,000 annal in the US. ritics noticed the audible complete of the Jonas Brothers in the assembly of the album. Don't Forget spawned three singles, "Get Back", "La La Land" and "Don't Forget", all of which were moderately successful, peaking about the top 40 and 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. The a lot of acknowledged of which was the appellation clue which was one position shy of entering the top 40 songs. Sonny With a Chance premiered on February 8, 2009,Lovato starred as Sonny Munroe, the new casting affiliate of a reside account ball appearance blue-blooded So Random!. In June 2009 Lovato co-starred in Princess Protection Program as Princess Rosalinda alongside Selena Gomez on the Disney Channel.The made-for-television cine is the third accomplished rated Disney Channel Original Movie, premiering on the Disney Channel with 9.8 actor viewers.

Lovato abutting Disney's Friends for Change, an alignment which promotes "environmently-friendly behavior," and appears in its accessible account announcements to accession acquaintance for the could cause on the Disney Channel. Lovato, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and the Jonas Brothers recorded "Send It On," a alms individual that served as the affair song for the alignment in 2009. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at Disney's Friends for Change directed all of its gain from "Send It On" to ecology charities to the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund.Lovato and Joe Jonas "Make a Wave" in 2010, the additional alms individual that currently serves as the affair song for Disney's Friends for Change.