Demetria Devonne Lovato ( l@-VAH-toh; born August 20, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends as a child, she received her breakthrough role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010). Since signing with Hollywood Records, Lovato has earned one number-one album (Here We Go Again in 2009) and five top-five albums (
1992-2006: Early life and career beginnings
Lovato was born on August 20, 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna De La Garza (nee) Dianna Lee Smith)  and engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato. She has an older sister named Dallas; a younger maternal half-sister, actress Madison De La Garza; and an older paternal half-sister named Amber, to whom she first spoke when she was 20.  Lovato's parents divorced in mid-1994, shortly after her second birthday. Lovato's father was of Mexican descent, with mostly Spanish and Native American ancestors, and came from a family that has been living in New Mexico for generations; he also had distant Portuguese and Jewish ancestry, while her mother has English and Irish ancestry. Through her father, Lovato is a descendant of Civil War Union veteran Francisco Perea (1830-1913) and Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico governor Francisco Xavier Chavez. Through DNA testing Lovato discovered that she is also 16 percent of Scandinavian descent and one percent of African descent.  Lovato was raised in Dallas, Texas. In 2002, she began her acting career on the children's television series Barney & Friends as Angela. She began playing piano at age seven and guitar at ten, when she also began dancing and acting classes. Lovato told Ellen DeGeneres that she was bullied so badly that she asked for homeschooling, and she received her high-school diploma through homeschooling in April 2009. She later became a spokesperson for the anti-bullying organization PACER and appeared on America's Next Top Model to speak out against bullying. In 2006, Lovato appeared on Prison Break, and on Just Jordan the following year.  As of September 2015, Lovato's name appears on the "Unclaimed Coogan" list, which is a fund for child actors whose earnings were partially withheld, but which remain unclaimed by the former child performers.

Q: When was demi born?
A: Lovato was born on August 20, 1992

Q: What did her parents do?
A: former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna De La Garza (nee) Dianna Lee Smith)  and engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato.
Were her parents married?
Lovato's parents divorced in mid-1994, shortly after her second birthday.
Lovato's parents divorced in mid-1994, shortly after her second birthday.