Mariah Carey – Biography : Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969, Huntington, New York, U.S.) American pop singer, noted for her remarkable vocal range. She was one of the most successful female performers of the 1990s and remained popular into the early 21st century.
Mariah Carey Facts
- Boyfriend: Bryan Tanaka
- Age: 54 Years, 54 Year Old Females
Family: - Spouse/Ex-: Nick Cannon, Tommy Mottola
- father: Alfred Roy Carey
- mother: Patricia Hickey
- siblings: Alison, Morgan
- children: Monroe Cannon, Moroccan Scott Cannon
- Born Country: United States
- Quotes By Mariah Carey African Americans
- Height: 5’8″ (173 cm), 5’8″ Females
- Ancestry: Venezuelan American, Irish American
- Notable Alumni: Harborfields High School
- U.S. State: New Yorkers
Mariah Carey Childhood & Early Life
Mariah Angela Carey was born to Patricia (Hickey), an Irish-American mezzo-soprano opera singer, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer. They got divorced when Carey was only three.
Her first public performance was at the age of six. By the age of sixteen, she was skipping classes to write songs and her brother, Morgan, paid for her first recording session. She finally graduated from Harborfields High School, in 1987.
Mariah Carey Career
- Before Mariah Carey got her big break, she worked as a temp and juggled with a number of odd jobs such as a beautician, hair sweeper in a salon, waitress and as a coat check girl. After several years of struggling, she had earned ample money and finally, she moved to a well-off sector in New York with her family.
- In 1988, Tommy Mottola, Head of Columbia Records, signed her and produced her debut, self-titled album, ‘Mariah Carey’, which contained four No.1 hits. These songs charted the top US music countdowns for weeks and even earned her a number of prestigious nominations and awards.
- ‘Emotions’, released in 1991, was a more mature album in terms of the quality of songs and music.
- Her MTV Unplugged version in 1992, awed critics and went on to earn a triple-platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.
- Some of her popular singles through the 90s such as ‘Endless Love’ and ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ established her as a popular pop star and she soon began releasing a lot more albums.
- ‘Daydream’, released in October 1995, explored new avenues with R&B and hip-hop flavours and her signature pop tunes. The album’s song ‘One Sweet Day’ sung in collaboration with R&B group Boys II Men, remained on the American Music charts for almost 16 weeks.
- She introduced ‘breathy vocals’, a new sultry style of singing, with her next album ‘Butterfly’, in 1997, which received positive reviews from both, critics and listeners.
- In 1998, she recorded a duet with the famous, Whitney Houston, titled, ‘When You Believe’, for the animated film, ‘Prince of Egypt’.
- In 1999, she released the triple-platinum album, ‘Rainbow’, under Columbia Records, which was compared to her previous release, ‘Butterfly’, in terms of the pattern of the songs. The song, ‘Heartbreaker’, became a smash hit and topped music charts.
- In 2001, she starred in ‘Glitter’ as ‘Billie Frank’, a girl who becomes a pop-star over night, after a chance meeting with a DJ. Both the film and her performance received negative reviews from the critics and the movie was a box-office failure.
- In 2002, her ninth album, ‘Charmbracelet’ was released, which received mixed reviews from critics and listeners. Of all the singles in the album, ‘Through the Rain’, was the most successful one.
- ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’, released in 2005 is largely considered her ‘comeback’ album. Two singles from the album, ‘We Belong Together’ and ‘It’s Like That’ became instant chartbusters.
- Her 2008 album, ‘E=MC2’, brought her back to the top of the pop-music charts in the United States.
- After a bad review for her first feature film ‘Glitter’, sceptics lauded her return to films with ‘Precious’, in 2009, in which she played a social worker.
- In 2010, she released, ‘Merry Christmas II You’, which became a top holiday album in the United States and became the second ‘Christmas’ album to top the ‘R&B/Hip-Hop’ charts as well.
- In 2011, she collaborated with teenage sensation, Justin Bieber for his holiday album, ‘Under the Mistletoe’ and re-recorded her famous song, ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’.
- She wrote and recorded the song, ‘Mesmerized’ for the film, ‘The Paperboy’, in 2012. The same year, she appeared as a judge on the reality singing show, ‘The American Idol’.
- In 2014, her fourteenth album, ‘Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse’. The album was earlier proposed to be titled as ‘The Art of Letting Go’.
- Mariah Carey made her directorial debut in 2015 with the Hallmark Channel Christmas movie ‘A Christmas Melody’. Mariah also acted in the movie.
- In 2016, she was seen in the docu-series ‘Mariah’s World’ that was broadcast on the E! network.
- In 2017, she released the singles “I Don’t” and “The Star”. She also developed an animated Christmas film, titled “Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You”, which was released direct-to-video.
- In 2018, Mariah Carey released her fifteenth album titled ‘Caution’. In 2019, she re-released her holiday album�‘Merry Christmas’�for its 25th anniversary.
- On December 4, 2020, ‘Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special’, a Christmas special starring Mariah Carey, was premiered on Apple TV+.
Mariah Carey Major Works
‘Mariah Carey’, her debut album, released in 1990, sold over 15 million copies worldwide and contained four hit singles that charted the ‘Billboard Hot 100’ for weeks.
The album was also certified platinum nine-times by the RIAA and she became the first artist to have her four singles topping the music charts in the United States after ‘The Jackson 5’.
Mariah Carey Awards & Achievements
- She received the Grammy Award for ‘Best New Artist’ in 1991.
- She was awarded the ‘Legend Award’ as the ‘best-selling female pop artist of the millennium’, in 2000.
- In 2003, she was ranked no.1 in MTV and Blender magazine’s list of the ’22 Greatest Voices in Music’.
- In 2012, she was placed at the second spot on the VH1’s list of ‘100 Greatest Women in Music’.