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Thursday, October 2, 2008 @ 6:45 AM
Demi Lovato was born in Dallas,
Texas. Lovato has two sisters, Dallas, 20, who is also
an actress and singer, and Madison, 5. Lovato's mom, Dianna
Lovato, was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and country recording
artist. She is currently home schooled by a tutor due to her
areer.Lovato has also won many talent competitions back home in
Texas. She had also grew up performing for venues, such as the
Eismann Center and the Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day Halftime
Show. She also starred on Barney and Friends when she was younger.
She started acting at the age of six, when she landed her first
series regular role as Angela on Barney & Friends. Lovato is close
friends with Barney co-star Selena Gomez. As time went on Lovato
pursued her singing and instrumental career, but she had been a
guest star on Prison Break, Split Ends (pilot) and Just Jordan. In
January 2007 she landed a series regular role as Charlotte Adams on
the new Disney Channel original short series, As the Bell Rings,
which premiered on August 26, 2007 during Disney's Back-to-School
special night. She has also won the the role of Jenny in a new pilot
for Disney Channel Original Series called Sketchpad. Lovato also stars
in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Camp Rock, which is set to
premiere June 20, 2008.
She is a singer and songwriter as well as a musician, playing guitar
and piano since the age of eleven. Her good friends, the Jonas Brothers,
have also written songs along with Lovato for her debut album, according
to USA Today. Lovato will cover the Academy Award nominated song "That's
How You Know" from Enchanted on DisneyMania 6.
Lovato will be opening for the Jonas Brothers on their summer 2008
Burning Up Tour, the Jonas Brothers will also be in Avril Lavigne's
The Best Damn Tour, which is also during the summer of '08. Lovato
will also attend the Disney Channel Games 2008 in spring, which is
set to air in the summer of 2008 on Disney Channel. She is currently
in Puerto Rico filming a new Disney Channel Original Movie titled
Princess Protection Program with Selena Gomez and recording her
debut CD in Miami, FL. The Jonas Brothers have helped her to write
11 songs for the album.
Demi is best friends with fellow Barney & Friends actress Selena Gomez.
The two have created a YouTube account together, and since January 2008,
they have been making and uploading their own videos. When asked a
question of how long the pair have been friends, Demi answered "When
I asked her to sit on my jacket and draw with crayons with me!
(at the Barney auditions)". Jennifer Stone, another Disney star,
and former Barney co-star, is also one of Lovato's and Gomez's close
friends. Along with close friends, such as Selena Gomez and the Jonas
Brothers, Demi wears a purity ring (not really confirmed, she calls it a
necklace), but instead of being a ring, she wears a necklace that says
"True Love Waits". Lovato and Gomez are also still friends with childhood
friend, Melissa Lee.
