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Mariah
Carey
The
world knows Mariah Carey as the biggest selling female
artist of all time, and soon she's going to take over
as best selling all-around artist of all time.
Mariah's
story begins when she started singing at age 3. Her father
is Afro-Venezuelan, and her mother Irish. Her parents
slit up when Mariah was 3 years old.
Mariah's
mother is a trained opera singer and started giving Mariah
singing lessons at the age of 3.
Since
Mariah was a lil girl she was always wanted to be a star
but she has always suffered from low-self esteem and was
a little self self-consciousness about her looks. After
graduating from high school Mariah moved to New York to
attend beauty school and work on her music. While is New
York she came friends with keyboardist Ben Margulies,
with whom she began writing songs.
Mariah
became a studio back up vocalist for dance-pop singer
Brenda K. Starr. It was at a party when Brenda K handed
Mariah's demo tape to Columbia Records head Tommy Mottola
that would soon begin Mariah's Cinderella story.
On
the way home after the party Tommy Mottola listened to
the tape in his limo, after hearing the tape he immediately
asked the driver to head back to the party so he could
look for Mariah.
Mariah
sign to Columbia records entered the studio to begin work
on her 1990 self-titled debut LP; the heavily promoted
album was a chart-topping smash, launching no less than
four number one singles: "Vision of Love," "Love
Takes Time," "Someday," and "I Don't
Wanna Cry." Her overnight success earned Grammy awards
as Best New Artist and Best Female Vocalist.
In
1991 she followed up on her second album Emotions, and
it was a record breaking success with five consecutive
chart topping number ones.
In
1993 Mariah married Tommy Mottola who was 20 years her
senior. Later that year she released her 3rd album Music
Box, which spawn number one hit singles, "Dreamlover"
and "Hero." At that time Mariah had released
3 number ones albums and a MTV unplugged CD, while having
never toured any concerts yet, something that was never
heard of before.
In
1997 Mariah and Tommy Mottola separated and she launch
her album Butterfly which was a another side of Mariah,
now a more mature personal album.
As
the years went on Mariah continued to rack up more number
ones. After leaving Columbia records she signed a 80-million-dollar
deal with Virgin Records, it was the biggest record contract
ever. In 2001 she experienced a very public personal and
professional meltdown. Record and movies sales from movie
Glitter did not do so well and in 2002 she and Virgin
Records parted ways.
Since
then Mariah has continued to work hard and take time being
herself. Her eleventh and newest CD E=MC² was launched
on April 15. The single Touch my Body was pre released
in February has already had many number ones and is still
on top of the charts.
Mariah
has also been keeping busy up coming new movie projects.
She has two new movies Tennessee, which has already garnered
her decent reviews on the festival circuit, and a cameo
in the Adam Sandler vehicle You Don't Mess With the Zohan.
Her
success has been sky rocketing and she has just been named
one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world,
not to mention her recent marriage to 27 year old actor-
rapper Nick Cannon.
So
this month will bring you Mariah Carey, covermodel, Revlon
spokes model, superstar, equals super rolemodel.
Mariah
Carey videos
Here
is the best of Mariah Carey on the net
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