Mariah Carey is one of the most popular names in the world of music and acting. For several years Mariah Carey has been successfully entertaining people all over the world with her great voice and wonderful lyrics of several songs. Though in the early phase of her professional career she was compared with other popular singers like Whitney Houston and Cline Dion for her voice and style of singing, she earned popularity very fast and is now one of the most popular female singers in the world. Besides, Mariah Carey is popular as a Hollywood female actor.
Born in Huntington, New York on March 27, 1970, Mariah Carey is the daughter of Patricia Hickey, a former Irish opera singer and Alfred Roy Carey, an engineer. Mariah is the third and the youngest child of Alfred and Patricia. Mariah's parents got separated when she was only of three years and stayed back with her mother. She started singing at the age of three years as her mother took the initiative to teach as she found that her little daughter was trying to imitate her.
While mentioning about Mariah Carey it may be mentioned here that after leaving school, she graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New Work. But as she was already in singing, Mariah couldn't attend her classes regularly. At that time she was working as a demo singer for some local studios. Her work in the studios gave gave her the opportunity to work with famous musicians like Ben Margulies and Gavin Christopher. Mariah co-wrote several songs with them for her demo tape.
Mariah Carrey got her first break as a playback singer in the year 1990 after she met Columbia Records executive Tommy Motorola in a party. For her debut album named Mariah Carey, she became the first recording artist whose first five songs topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. |
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Mariah Carey's debut album earned huge financial and critical success and made her popular all over United States of America. Other popular albums of Mariah Carey are Emotions, which was released in the year 1991 and Merry Christmas in 1994. One of the biggest success of Mariah carey was the Academy Award that she won for the song “When You Believe” that she sung with Whitney Houston for the movie Prince of Egypt.
Mariah Carey was married to Motorola and till the year 1997 they together contributed largely to the financial success of Columbia Records. However, Mariah got separated from Motorola in the year 1997 and was eventually dropped by Columbia Records which was a major set back for her career. Mariah again signed with Island Records in the year 2002.
Apart from her huge contribution to the music industry, Maria Carey also acted in some Hollywood films. She was first seen opposite to Chris O'Donnell and Renee Zellweger in the romantic comedy named Bachelor. Later she also starred in Glitter and played the character of a struggling musician.
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