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How Ariana Grande’s Embrace of Community at ‘One Love Manchester’ Made Her a Star in the U.K.
A month ago, Ariana Grande was famous in Britain, but not ubiquitous: though her 3 albums all reached the U.K. charts’ top ten, most Britons hadn’t heard of her unless they listened to pop radio or had an Arianator in the family. Even when her May 22 show at Manchester Arena became the site of a suicide bombing that left 22 victims dead and 119 injured — the worst terrorist atrocity on British soil since 2005 — the public had little sense of who Grande was, beyond a name in the news.
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