Best People of 2019

Ariana Grande is known for her amazing vocals and outstanding talent. Grande has won ten Teen Choice Awards and six Radio Disney Music Awards. She focuses on the aspects of heartbreak, empathy, generosity, resilience and strength in her songs. Grande’s past albums have both broke the records in the music charts. She released her second back to back album, Thank You, Next, just months after winn...

On Oct. 25, 2019 social media influencer Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, dazzled his 25.3 million followers with his most recent upload, entitled“Planting 20,000,000 Trees, My Biggest Project Ever” Jimmy Donaldson, along with with other media stars, worked with benefactors to plant trees by raising money for the cause. MrBeast raised more than $8.2 million with donations from Elon Musk,...

After a 6 year hiatus, the Jonas Brothers reunited with the release of album Happiness Begins and their documentary Chasing Happiness. The iconic trio featuring Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas and Kevin Jonas got their start in 2006 with their first album It’s About Time. The brothers went on to star alongside Demi Lovato in both of the Camp Rock movies and even had their own Disney Channel show, Jonas. T...

On June 7, 2019, North Carolina born and raised Reneé Rapp made her Broadway debut. Premiering as Regina George in Mean Girls, Rapp wowed hundreds of people with her talent and skill. At only nineteen years old, Rapp’s abilities and poise are well beyond her years. Her age has been an inspiration to aspiring theatre kids everywhere, proving that this career is attainable if willing to put in the work.�...

Khalid started composing and making music in high school; he presented his early works on SoundCloud. In July 2016, he claimed the number two spot on the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists diagram. Khalid went from an obscure average teenager to a chart-topping pop star with Grammy designations for American Teen, in addition to Logic's "1-800-237-8255," on which he showed up. He got to know Kylie Jenner...

Tara Westover, American author, launched her memoir entitled Educated back in 2018 as a number one New York Times Bestseller. 96 weeks later (and counting), readers aren’t surprised that the book hasn’t budged. Author Andrew Hill, for instance, wrote in his blog that “although published in 2018, Educated’s moment will remain now for a very long time.” TIME magazine named Westover one of the ...

Actor Cameron Boyce, who passed away on July 6, 2019, due to epileptic seizure, was beloved all across America and will be missed by many. His first debut was “Mirrors”, a 2008 thriller movie when he was nine years old, then “Grown Ups” two years later. But where Boyce really achieved fame was when he starred in the Disney Channel show “Jesse” as Luke Bryan. He then went on to star in “D...

Hasan Minhaj, a comedian and T.V show host deserves to be the best person of 2019 because of what he does on his show, Patriot Act. On this news show, he brings up topics such as clothing companies polluting, or the effects of public transportation in our lives, like the effect that clothing companies have on our environment or the fight against bureaucracy in trying to create more public transpor...

Paving her way to activism since the age of fifteen, Greta Thunberg is renowned worldwide for the numerous protests, summits and calls to action she’s made in regard to the climate crisis. With a campaign that started out with skipped school days for the greater good, Thunberg’s mission to raise awareness of climate change has become a notable platform across generations young and old. Thunberg, curren...

Jarad Higgins, known as Juice Wrld, was a huge artist and songwriter in the rap industry. Some of his best singles and albums all came out, becoming huge hits at their peak. His 2019 album, Death Race for Love was number 1 on the Billboard 200 charts this year.  Higgins unexpectedly died from a seizure on December 8th, towards the end of this year. This shocking news hit his fans and supporters really hard as...