DEMI LOVATO

Lovato was born on August 20, 1992, in Albuquerque, New Mexico[12] to engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato[13] and former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna De La Garza (nee Dianna Lee Smith).[14] Lovato has an older sister named Dallas[15] as well as a younger maternal half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza,[16] and an older paternal half-sister named Amber, to whom she first spoke when she was 20.[17] Lovato's parents divorced in the late mid-1994, shortly after her second birthday.[18] Lovato's father was of Mexican descent, and also had distant Portuguese and Jewish ancestry,[19][20] while her mother has English and Irish ancestry.[21][22] Through her father, Lovato is a descendant of Civil War Union veteran Francisco Perea (1830–1913) and Santa Fe de Nuevo México governor Francisco Xavier Chávez.[23] Through DNA testing Lovato discovered that she is also 16 percent of Scandinavian descent and one percent of African descent.[24] Lovato was raised in Dallas, Texas.[25][26] In 2002, she began her acting career on the children's television series Barney & Friends as Angela.[27] She began playing piano at age seven and guitar at ten,[28] when she also began dancing and acting classes.[29] Lovato told Ellen DeGeneres that she was bullied so badly that she asked for homeschooling,[30] and she received her high-school diploma through homeschooling in April 2009.[31] She later became a spokesperson for the anti-bullying organization PACER and appeared on America's Next Top Model to speak out against bullying.[32] In 2006, Lovato appeared on Prison Break, and on Just Jordan the following yearIn 2009, Lovato recorded "Send It On", a charity single and the theme song for Disney's Friends for Change, with friends the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez.[57][58] All proceeds from the song were donated to environmental charities supported by the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund.[57] Lovato's Disney Channel sitcom Sonny with a Chance, with her character Sonny Munroe, the newest cast member of the show-within-a-show So Random!, premiered on February 8.[59] Lovato's acting ability was described by Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times as "very good", and he compared her favorably to Hannah Montana star (and friend) Miley Cyrus.[60] That June, she starred as Princess Rosalinda / Rosie Gonzalez in the Disney Channel film, Princess Protection Program. The film, the fourth highest-rated Disney Channel original movie, premiered to 8.5 million viewersIn June 2016, Lovato was among the artists that signed an open letter to stop gun violence, created by Billboard.[225] That month, the Human Rights Campaign also released a video in tribute to the victims of the 2016 Orlando gay nightclub shooting; in the video, Lovato and others told the stories of the people killed there.[226][227] In January 2017, Lovato returned to Kenya to participate in working with We Movement to do work with women and children.[228] In March 2017, as a celebration of five-year anniversary of sobriety, Lovato donated money to multiple Los Angeles-based charities. Lovato randomly selected a group of causes based on their work, which included animal, LGBT and adoption rights.[229][230] On March 22, Lovato will be honored with the Artistic Award of Courage at The Jane and Terry Semel Institute's biannual Open Mind Gala, which recognizes those who raise awareness and reduce the stigma of mental health issues.[231] She partnered with Fabletics in May 2017 on limited edition activewear collection.[232] The collaboration was in support of the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign to fund programs "for some of the world's most marginalized adolescent girls

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