Her mother, who later remarried, moved young Demi and her older sister to Dallas.
They divorced when Demi was just 2 years old her father, prone to violent outbursts and substance abuse, remained estranged from his children until he died of cancer in 2013. Lovato was born in Albuquerque to Dianna De La Garza, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, and Patrick Lovato, a musician and audio engineer of Hispano descent. She picks at one of several growing holes in her mangled fishnet stockings. Gothic crosses dangle from her ears she wears a loose pinstripe blazer with a leather-studded collar and shiny Creeper shoes to match. At the center of the picture sat Lovato, raising two middle fingers to the camera “a funeral for my pop music,” she captioned the image on Instagram.Īlmost eight months later, inside a black-box rehearsal studio in Burbank, Lovato quietly strums a cream-shellacked Gibson electric guitar, her face obscured under her Joan Jett shag cut. It also said a photo of the singer with representatives from her record label and management team was taken in New York the shoot was in Los Angeles.Īt her home studio in Los Angeles, Lovato posed for a photo with representatives from her record label and management team, led by Scooter Braun, who were all, incidentally, dressed in black. 18, 2022 An earlier version of this article said Lovato is 30.