Also, Her half-brother was on US TV show Big Brother in 2014, pushing LGBT and emerging popstar Ariana Grande prior to the release of her 2nd Studio album. Family owns a military communication company - Hose-McCann.

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An example? ‘Well, I posed in a cute outfit with some kitty ears on and with my middle finger flipped up and posted it on my fan page,’ she says.

Joan Grande runs Hose-McCann Communications, a company established by Grande’s maternal grandfather. ‘They design and manufacture the Marines’ communication equipment – like, [for] the Army and the Navy,’ Grande says proudly.

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They were building a Kabbalah centre in Florida so we both checked it out and really had a connection with it.’

The Kabbalah movement – Madonna is its most high-profile adherent – ‘sort of stuck with me. And since then my life has unfolded in a really beautiful way, and I think that it has a lot to do with the tools I’ve learnt through Kabbalah, I really do.’

Asked to explain those tools she is hesitant, not to say bashful. But eventually she says that ‘you have to watch your intentions, make sure you’re not giving in to your ego. You have to numb your reactive state. You have the power to change your reality,’ she says, clapping her hands together. ‘You have to take a second and breathe and reassess how you want to approach or react to a situation or approach an obstacle, or deal with a negative person in your space. That takes a lot of self-control and practice and, I guess, willpower,’ she concludes with an embarrassed laugh.

Does her love of horror – and reported belief in demons – co­exist with her spirituality?

‘Um, it does in my world,’ she says, smiling. ‘Do I believe in demons? I believe in unexplained energies.’

2014: Frankie Grande on Big Brother and the Hetero-Homo 'Zankie' Showmance That Had Everyone Talking

But first, it turns out, I interrupt his sister, Ariana Grande, and her team as she preps for her musical guest appearance on that night's season premiere of SNL.

Unsurprisingly, the Grande machine is hard at work, with two celebrity siblings at the center of a formidable team, juggling intense schedules of interviews and appearances. Despite the insanity of the sheer number of people involved, there's a calm in the air that can only come from what everyone appears to be: an enormous extended family doing exactly what they want—and loving every second. Leading this family is Joan Grande, Frankie and Ariana's impressively astute and aware mother—but more on her in a bit.

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Ariana Grande released her second studio album, My Everything, on August 25, 2014, with Rolling Stone magazine writing that "My Everything is where the 21-year-old Nickelodeon starlet grows up. It's a confident, intelligent, brazen pop statement, mixing bubblegum diva vocals with EDM break beats"

In mid-2014, Frankie Grande appeared on the US reality television series Big Brother 16