� Full name: Mariah Carey
� Birthday: March 27, 1970
� Birth place: New York City, NY, USA
� Mariah's sign: Sun in Aries, Moon in Scorpio
� Nationality: Venezuelan/Black and Irish American
� Religion: Episcopalian (Christian)
� School: Harborfields High School (graduated in 1987)
� Mother's name: Patricia Hickey
� Father's name: Alfred Roy Carey (Nunez)
� Other info:
She has a brother Morgan and a sister named Alison. Mariah's parents divorced when she was 3 years old...
� Height: 5' 9" (1,76m)
� Weight: 125 pounds (56,7kg)
� Eye color: brown
� Hair color: brown (natural color)
� Other info:
Mariah used to think that her right side looked better, because she has a mole on her left. But she now has grown out of that.
Favorites:
� Favorite singer: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder
� Favorite actor / actress: James Dean, Marylin Monroe
� Favorite movies: Comedy and horror
� Favorite spot to relax: Beach, amusement park
� Favorite activities: Riding roller coasters, swimming
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� Favorite food: Pasta and salad
� Favorite juice: Cranberry Juice
Pets:
� Dogs:
Jack - a Jack Russel Terrier
Ginger - a Yorkshire Terrier
Princess - a Doberman
Duke - a Doberman
� Cats:
Tompkins - a Persian Cat
Ninja - a Persian Cat
Mariah's music:
� Mariah's voice range: 5 to 7 octaves
� Number of albums: 9
� Number of #1 singles: 14
� Worldwide sales: 130 million copies ('2000)
� Other info:
Mariah is the only female artist who had 7 albums triple platinum in the US. She is the only artist with three debutes on #1 and she was the first who's first 5 singles reached #1.
Biography - Thanks to MariahCarey.com
Mariah Carey's career is truly the stuff of legend. Since she began her career, Mariah has since become the best-selling female performer of all time, with an incredible 15 #1 singles and two Grammy Awards. Along the way she became the only artist to top the charts in each year of the 1990s, and, with "Heartbreaker," she pushed ahead of the Beatles as the artist with the most cumulative weeks spent atop Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.
Possessing a spectacular five-octave range, Mariah has proven that she is equally at home with sweeping ballads and pop, often incorporating elements of dance and hip-hop into the mix. Perhaps even more impressive, she composes all of her own material.
In May 2002, Mariah signed an exclusive recording contract with the Universal Music Group's Island Records. In addition, Carey has formed her own label, MonarC Music. The first release for MonarC Music will be Mariah's forthcoming studio album set for release on December 3rd, 2002.
Mariah's new album features the songstress writing and co-producing with such a-list names as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and Jermaine Dupri among others. The album, which is lyrically very personal, showcases Mariah's stunning voice, prolific songwriting and incredible versatility. This is fully evident on the first single, the sweeping epic ballad, "Through The Rain" which is a perfect example of what Mariah does best.
Born in Long Island, NY, as the daughter of a former opera singer and vocal coach -- and named after the song "They Call the Wind Mariah" from the popular Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon Mariah began singing at the age of four, and was writing her own songs by the time she was attending Oldfield Middle School. She moved to New York City, the day after graduating from high school. Honing her songwriting skills and lending her vocals to several local acts, she first garnered industry attention when singing backup for Brenda K. Starr, who gave Mariah's demo tape to Sony Music Entertainment chief Tommy Mottola at a party. As legend has it, Mottola played the demo on his ride home and ordered his driver to immediately return to the party so that he could meet the young singer. Soon afterwards, Mottola signed Mariah to a Columbia Records contract.
Mariah's self-titled Columbia debut, released in 1990, spawned an extraordinary four #1 singles: "Vision of Love," "Love Takes Time," "Someday" and "I Don't Wanna Cry," and led to Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Vocalist. The following year's album, Emotions, was another smash, with the title track scoring her fifth consecutive #1 single and two other titles "Can't Let Go" and "Make It Happen" � reaching the Top Five. Her next release, 1992's MTV Unplugged EP, scored another #1 with her cover of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There."
Music Box (1993) became her biggest seller to date, with "Dreamlover" and "Hero" again topping the charts, and was followed by 1994's Merry Christmas, which contained another hit with "All I Want for Christmas is You." Daydream (1995) contained the club-friendly "Fantasy," which debuted at #1 making Mariah the second artist in history, and the first female performer, to accomplish that feat. The follow-up single, "One Sweet Day" (recorded with Boyz II Men), followed suit and stayed at the top of the charts for a record 16 weeks.
Butterfly (1997) revealed an even greater hip-hop flavor than its predecessor, scoring hits with "Honey" and "My All." The following year witnessed the release of greatest hits collection #1's, which included a new song, "When You Believe" (from the film The Prince of Egypt), a duet with Whitney Houston which paired the two most successful female recording artists in pop history. Rainbow, with its chart-topping tune "Heartbreaker," followed in 1999.
In 2001, Mariah signed with Virgin Records, which released Glitter, the soundtrack album to the film of the same name, with Mariah in her first lead acting role. She has also been featured in the films The Bachelor (1999) and Wisegirls (2002).
Mariah has garnered many accolades throughout her career including 2 Grammy Awards, 8 American Music Awards, Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" Award and the World Music Award for "World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium" to name a few. Mariah's many accomplishments and unprecedented career success stand as a testament to her creativity and talent. That they represent only the beginning is all the more impressive.
Biography - Thanks to The iTunes Music Store
Mariah Carey
b. 27 March 1970, Huntington, New York City, New York, USA. This pop diva enjoyed an unprecedented string of US chart-toppers that helped establish her as the most successful female solo artist of the 90s. Carey is the third child of an Irish-American mother, a former opera singer turned voice tutor, and a half-Venezuelan father. As a schoolgirl she began singing on R&B sessions in New York when she met keyboard player and songwriter Ben Margulies who became her songwriting partner and close friend. With Carey writing the melodies and most of the lyrics, and Margulies arranging the songs, they developed a simple blend of soul, gospel and pop that showed off Carey's amazing vocal range to the full. Carey struggled as a waitress until fortune smiled on her. While at a show business party, a friend of the singer thrust a demo cassette into the hands of Sony Music's US president Tommy Mottola. While driving home from the party Mottola played the cassette in the car and was so impressed that he immediately set out on a Prince Charming-like quest to find his Cinderella.
Carey was duly signed and her debut single, "Visions Of Love", was a smash hit. It became the first of five US number 1s.
Managed by Randy Hoffman (whose roster also includes Hall And Oates) the success story proved swift and efficient in construction. In addition to providing four chart-topping singles ("Vision Of Love", "Love Takes Time", "Someday" and "I Don't Wanna Cry"), her debut album stayed on top of the US album charts for 22 weeks, as she duly picked up 1991 Grammys for Best Female Vocalist and Best New Artist, an extraordinary start to a career. The title track of Emotions gave Carey a record fifth consecutive US number 1. Subsequent number 1 singles included a cover of the Jackson Five's "I'll Be There" (from MTV Unplugged), "Dreamlover" and "Hero" (both from Music Box). Her only UK number 1 to date, however, came with a cover version of Badfinger's "Without You" in February 1994. In 1993, she married Mottola (they subsequently divorced in 1997). Her seasonal Merry Christmas featured another hit single, "All I Want For Christmas Is You". Her 1995 release, Daydream, exceeded all expectations and notched up sales of over six million in the USA within three months of release.
Butterfly featured Carey's most adventurous collection of songs to date, and inevitably repeated the success of her previous albums. "My All" became Carey's thirteenth American number 1, placing her behind only Elvis Presley and the Beatles in the all-time US singles chart. "When You Believe", a duet with fellow diva Whitney Houston taken from the animated DreamWorks movie The Prince Of Egypt, was a huge worldwide hit during 1998. Carey returned in October 1999 with yet another US chart-topper, "Heartbreaker", featuring rapper Jay-Z. "Thank God I Found You", featuring Joe and 98�, repeated the success the following February. Her records have already sold over 110 million copies worldwide, establishing her as the biggest-selling female solo artist of the 1990s.
In 2001, Carey signed a four album, $80 million recording contract with Virgin Records. Shortly before the release of her debut for the label, the soundtrack to a movie loosely based on her life, Carey was admitted to hospital suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. The album was one of the year's most high-profile failures and prompted speculation about the future of her Virgin contract. The rumours became fact in January 2002 when Carey parted company with the label. Later in the year she signed a multi-album recording contract with Island Def Jam, and formed her own imprint, Monarc Music.
The first release on the label was Carey's new studio album, Charmbracelet.
DISCOGRAPHY: Mariah Carey (Columbia 1990)***, Emotions (Columbia 1991)***, MTV Unplugged (Columbia 1992)***, Music Box (Columbia 1993)***, Merry Christmas (Columbia 1994)**, Daydream (Columbia 1995)***, Butterfly (Columbia 1997)***, with Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Shania Twain Divas Live (Epic 1998)**, Rainbow (Columbia 1999)***, Glitter (Virgin 2001)**, Charmbracelet (Monarc 2002)***.
COMPILATIONS: #1s (Columbia 1998)****, Greatest Hits (Columbia 2001)****.
VIDEOGRAPHY: Mariah Carey (Columbia Music Video 1994), Fantasy: Live At Madison Square Garden (Columbia Music Video 1996), My All (Columbia Music Video 1998), with Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Shania Twain Divas Live (Sony Music Video 1998), Around The World (Sony Music Video 1999), MTV Unplugged + 3 (Sony Music Video 1999), #1s (Sony Music Video 1999).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mariah Carey, Marc Shapiro. Mariah Carey Revisited: Her Story, Chris Nickson.
FILMOGRAPHY: The Bachelor (1999), Glitter (2001), Wisegirls (2002).
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