Ariana Grande can always count on her older brother, Frankie Grande — no matter what.
“Family forever. I will have your back until the end of time,” Frankie, 43, wrote via Instagram on Friday, August 7, sharing footage from the final night of Ariana’s Eternal Sunshine Tour. “I am so proud of you and so happy for you.”
He continued, “Last night was a beautiful celebration of your artistry and the magnificent eternal sunshine family you have built and created. It was a magical night. You are magical. You are my everything and I am so so happy I was there to see you shine on this tour one last time.”
In a second post shared via social media, Frankie gushed that Ariana, 33, put on “the greatest concert [he’s] ever seen.”
“I’ve never experienced anything quite like it. It was cinematic, theatrical, intimate, spectacular, and vocally flawless all at once,” the influencer gushed via Instagram earlier this week. “Somehow it felt like a Broadway show, a film, and a concert existing in the same magical space. The way live performance and cinema danced together was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. And then … there was the singing.”
Frankie added, “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it forever: I believe my sister is the greatest singer of all time. There is simply no substitute for hearing those songs performed live. Her artistry, her musicianship, her storytelling, and a discography that is truly unmatched all came together in what I genuinely believe is the highest expression of her craft.”
The Big Brother alum further marveled at Ariana’s vocal talents, calling his sibling a “once-in-a-lifetime artist at the absolute peak of her powers.”
“I’m so incredibly proud. So deeply inspired, and so grateful that the world gets to experience this version of her,” Frankie concluded. “Brava, sister. What a gift you are.”
Just before wrapping the Eternal Sunshine Tour, Ariana’s spokesperson confirmed that the Oscar nominee planned to take a break from the public eye amid an onslaught of public scrutiny about her body, assumed weight and perceived health.
“It is something that I had decided, a plan I had quietly made a long time ago, and it’s a decision that was made from a thoughtful and empowered place,” Ariana said during her Monday, August 3, concert, without addressing the criticism of her appearance. “No matter what noises exist out there, nothing will be able to distort my reality or be more real to me or not as real to me than this love that we share and how it feels to make art with people that I love and respect. Absolutely nothing will change that.”
Ariana’s body had been criticized following the recent release of her “Petal” music video. While the Wicked actress never addressed the recent claims pertaining to disordered eating, she has long been vocal about navigating the conversation.
“I don’t do this often. I don’t like it. I’m not good at it,” Grande previously said in an April 2023 social media video. “I just want to address your concerns about my body. There are ways to compliment someone or to ignore something that you don’t like that I think we should help each other work toward. Just to aim towards keeping each other safer. There are many different kinds of beautiful. There are many different ways to look healthy and beautiful.”
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