48 Fun Facts About Demi Lovato

Dallas-raised Lovato was born in which New Mexico city?

Albuquerque. Her mother, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, raised her in Texas, and the label stuck so firmly that a 2008 Washington Post profile gave Dallas as her birthplace.

What is Lovato's full first name?

Demetria. She was born Demetria Devonne Lovato, and in 2014 she put her middle name on a skincare line, Devonne by Demi.

On which children's series did Lovato begin her acting career?

Barney & Friends. She played Angela alongside the purple dinosaur, and at the auditions she met a girl who became her best friend and a fellow Disney star.

Which character did Lovato play in Camp Rock?

Mitchie Torres. She gets into the pricey music camp only because her mother is hired to cook there, and spends the summer hiding that from the richer campers.

Who joined Lovato on her debut single 'This Is Me'?

Joe Jonas. He plays Shane Gray, a spoiled pop star who overhears a girl singing at camp and spends the film trying to find her; their duet became a top-ten hit.

What was Lovato's 2008 debut album called?

Don't Forget. The Jonas Brothers took her on tour for a week and wrote about ten songs with her, then co-produced them in the studio before they left for Europe.

Which Lovato album was her first to debut at number one on the Billboard 200?

Here We Go Again. She agreed to leave off a song about her estranged father as too intense for her young fans; 'For the Love of a Daughter' surfaced two years later on her next album.

In which Disney Channel sitcom did Lovato play a Wisconsin teenager who joins a Hollywood sketch show?

Sonny with a Chance. Her character's sketch show, So Random!, outlived her: when Lovato left the series, Disney reworked it into a real sketch show under that name.

Which Disney Channel short series featured Lovato as Charlotte Adams from 2007 to 2008?

As the Bell Rings. The show was a run of comedy shorts, and her character was written out as moving away once Lovato was cast in Camp Rock.

Who co-starred with Lovato in the 2009 film Princess Protection Program?

Selena Gomez. The two were best friends when they shot it in Puerto Rico, with Lovato as a princess in hiding and Gomez as the tomboy who shelters her.

What was the name of the record label Lovato co-founded with Nick Jonas in 2015?

Safehouse Records. Lovato said she joined to be in control of every part of her career, and one of the label's first signings was Glee's Chord Overstreet.

Which 2011 single from Unbroken won the MTV VMA for Best Video With a Message?

Skyscraper. She recorded it twice, before and after entering treatment in late 2010, and chose to release the first take, frayed voice and all.

Which Lovato single took a then record-equalling 25 weeks to top Billboard's Pop Songs chart?

Give Your Heart a Break. Radio took 25 weeks to come round to it, matching CeeLo Green's record, yet it became her biggest radio hit to that point, and Billboard later ranked it her best song.

Which TV singing competition did Lovato judge for two seasons from 2012?

The X Factor. She had just turned 20 and mentored the Young Adults, singers aged 17 to 24, so her last act standing, 21-year-old CeCe Frey, was older than her mentor.

On Glee, Lovato's character Dani became which regular's girlfriend?

Santana Lopez. The two work at the same New York diner and fall for each other over a duet of the Beatles' 'Here Comes the Sun'; Lovato appeared in four episodes.

Which Frozen song did Lovato cover for the film's credits?

Let It Go. Disney released Lovato's pop version first, as the radio single, but it was Idina Menzel's film version that became the hit, reaching number five while Lovato's peaked at 38.

Which 2013 single debuted with 215,000 first-week sales, Lovato's highest at the time?

Heart Attack. Its co-writer Nikki Williams had poured a break-up of her own into the song before Lovato heard the demo and asked to record it; ten years on, Lovato remade it as a rock track.

What was the title of Lovato's 2013 bestselling self-help book?

Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year. It grew out of the tweets she had written about her own struggles, and gives each day of the year a quote and a reflection.

Which album earned Lovato her first Grammy nomination, for Best Pop Vocal Album?

Confident. It was her first nomination, five albums into her career, and it put her in a field with Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Sia that Adele's 25 went on to win.

Which 2015 Lovato single drew attention for its bi-curious theme and peaked at number 11?

Cool for the Summer. Seven years later a TikTok dance challenge sent it back onto charts around the world, and Lovato answered with an official sped-up remix.

As of 2025, which Lovato single holds her highest Hot 100 peak, at number six?

Sorry Not Sorry. Its video is footage of a real house party Lovato threw in June 2017, with Paris Hilton, Jamie Foxx and Wiz Khalifa among the guests.

Which 2017 album became Lovato's first to be certified platinum in the US?

Tell Me You Love Me. It reached platinum in August 2018, under a year after release; the platinum awards for her older albums are all dated later, in 2020 and 2023.

Which Christina Aguilera album did Lovato cite as the inspiration for her sixth album?

Stripped. Lovato said even its black-and-white artwork inspired her, and a year later she and Aguilera recorded 'Fall in Line' together, which earned Lovato a Grammy nomination.

In Netflix's 2020 Eurovision comedy, Lovato plays Katiana, the favorite to represent which country?

Iceland. Katiana is a lock for the national final until a party boat explodes with every other act aboard, which is how Will Ferrell's hapless duo Fire Saga reach Eurovision.

On which sitcom's 2020 final season did Lovato play a surrogate mother?

Will & Grace. She played Jenny, the surrogate carrying Will's baby, who came with stellar reviews; only after they meet does Will learn she earns her living as a cam girl.

Lovato sang the national anthem at which 2020 event?

The Super Bowl. At 17 she tweeted 'One day, I'm gonna sing the national anthem at a super bowl', and in February 2020 she did, a week after returning to the stage at the Grammys.

Which song did Lovato sing at the Celebrating America inauguration special for Joe Biden?

Lovely Day. Health-care workers across the country sang and played along on screen to the Bill Withers hit, while the Bidens watched from the White House.

Which singer collaborated with Lovato on the 2020 single 'I'm Ready'?

Sam Smith. The video stages a tongue-in-cheek Olympics, with wrestling, diving and synchronised swimming before the two singers meet at the medal ceremony.

Lovato's 2021 album Dancing with the Devil carries which subtitle?

The Art of Starting Over. She called the album the unofficial soundtrack to her documentary and ordered it like her life: the most emotional songs first, as a three-track prelude, then the fresh start.

What did Lovato go looking for in a 2021 Peacock docuseries?

Extraterrestrial life. Unidentified with Demi Lovato ran for four episodes, and while promoting it she said that calling such visitors 'aliens' was derogatory: she preferred 'ETs'.

Which platform picked up Lovato's talk show after Quibi shut down?

The Roku Channel. Roku bought Quibi's library in January 2021, and the show, first announced as Pillow Talk with Demi Lovato, kept the short episodes Quibi was built around.

What was the lead single from Holy Fvck, premiered on The Tonight Show?

Skin of My Teeth. Months earlier Lovato had posted a photo captioned 'A funeral for my pop music', and the single made good on it with a punk-rock sound and an opening line about her leaving rehab again.

Why was a Holy Fvck poster banned in the UK?

Likely to offend Christians. After four complaints, the UK's advertising watchdog ruled that the image of her in a bondage-style outfit on a crucifix-shaped mattress linked sexuality to a sacred symbol.

For which horror film did Lovato record 'Still Alive' in 2023?

Scream VI. Lovato, a fan of the films, wrote the song with Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda, who appears in the video as a projectionist killed moments before Ghostface comes for her.

Which guitarist featured on the 2023 rock version of Lovato's 2017 number-six hit?

Slash. Lovato returned the favour a year later, singing the Temptations' 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone' on the Guns N' Roses guitarist's album of blues and soul covers.

What is the name of Lovato's 2023 remix album of rock re-recordings?

Revamped. On tour she had played her old pop hits in rock arrangements, and the crowds liked them so much that she went home and recorded ten of them.

Under what name did Lovato perform on The Masked Singer's season ten kickoff?

Anonymouse. The costume was a clue in itself, a nod to her start at Disney, the Mouse House; she sang Heart's 'What About Love' and was unmasked the same night as a one-off guest.

Which 2024 documentary marked Lovato's directorial debut?

Child Star. Nine days after it reached Hulu, Lovato stood beside California's governor as he signed laws extending child actors' pay protections to children who appear in online videos.

Which Clean Bandit single took Lovato to number one in the UK in 2018?

Solo. Clean Bandit never got into a studio with Lovato: she sang her part in Alabama while the band listened from Britain over a FaceTime call that kept breaking up.

What is the title of Lovato's ninth album, released in October 2025?

It's Not That Deep. She announced it with a prank link to her 'fifth documentary', and said the title was the point: happy and in love, she no longer needed to write about heavy things.

What kind of book did Lovato publish in March 2026?

A cookbook. One Plate at a Time: Recipes for Finding Freedom with Food gathers the dishes she says helped her repair her relationship with eating after years of an eating disorder.

Which singer inspired the young Lovato's AOL username, 'Little' plus the star's first name?

Kelly Clarkson. 'I was obsessed with Kelly Clarkson', Lovato said, and it came to run both ways: in 2015 Clarkson marked Lovato's birthday by covering one of her singles on stage.

Which singer-songwriter taught Lovato to write songs by starting with the title?

John Mayer. The two wrote together for her second album, when she was 16, and she says his advice to begin with a song's title is how she has written her most recent records.

Whom did Lovato marry in May 2025?

Jordan 'Jutes' Lutes. The Canadian musician first met her when he came into one of her studio sessions as a co-writer, and he is credited on three songs of her album Holy Fvck.

Which footwear brand named Lovato the face of its global campaign in 2014?

Skechers. Her ads sold its memory-foam shoes on a message of individuality, and the brand kept hiring pop stars after her: Meghan Trainor came next, then Camila Cabello.

With which activewear brand did Lovato launch a collection in 2017?

Fabletics. Hers was the first collaboration for Kate Hudson's label, and part of the proceeds went to a UN-backed scheme that gives girls bicycles so they can get to school.

In 2008, Camp Rock's premiere audience trailed only which Disney Channel movie's?

High School Musical 2, which had drawn 17.2 million the summer before. Camp Rock's 8.9 million did beat the first High School Musical's 7.7 million, a record then for a movie that was not a sequel.

Lovato spent her 21st birthday building a school in which country's Maasai Mara?

Kenya. She said she wanted 'a memorable and meaningful way to celebrate, rather than throw a big birthday bash', went with the charity Free the Children, and returned to its projects there in 2017.