Demi Lovato

Demi Lovato rose to musical fame alongside the Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus, part of a new generation of Disney stars finding mainstream success on the pop charts. She forged her own path, though, thanks to powerhouse vocals, a balance of vulnerable ballads and club-ready bangers, and her advocacy for treatment of mental illness and addiction issues. Born in 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised in Dallas by her mother, a former Cowboys cheerleader, Demetria Lovato hit it big with the 2008 movie Camp Rock and released her debut studio album, Don’t Forget, later that year. That record was the first step on her ascension from teen star to global icon, a status she’d cement through hit singles, collaborations with artists like Christina Aguilera, Luis Fonsi and Timbaland, and a turn as a judge on the U.S. version of The X Factor. Lovato’s discography has something for every playlist, like the warm-weather bop “Cool for the Summer”, the self-affirming anthem “Confident” and the stunning heartbreaker “Anyone”, which she told Apple Music was, in retrospect, “a cry for help” about her struggles with substance abuse. Her openness about her personal life and constant artistic evolutions have made her even more beloved by fans worldwide; her 2021 album, Dancing With The Devil… The Art of Starting Over, dealt head-on with the aftermath of her 2018 overdose and subsequent recovery, while the viral success of a sped-up “Cool for the Summer” remix in 2022 and her 2023 collection of rock re-recordings, REVAMPED, showed how her catalogue has stood the test of time.