Mariah Carey

This article deals with the American singer Mariah Carey, for her album of the same name see Mariah Carey (album) .

Mariah Carey (2018)

Mariah Carey (* 27. March 1970 or 1969 in Huntington , Long Iceland , New York ) is an American pop - hip-hop - and R & B - singer , songwriter , producer and actress . With 19 number one hits in the USA, five Grammys and more than 200 million records sold, she is one of the most successful singers today.

At the World Music Awards in 2000, Mariah Carey won the Millennium Award as the artist with the most sales in the 1990s. Carey won the 2003 Chopard Diamond Award at the World Music Awards for over 100 million albums sold. According to the Recording Industry Association of America , Mariah Carey is the third most successful artist in the United States after Madonna and Barbra Streisand, with over 63 million albums sold .

The US Nielsen SoundScan declared Mariah Carey the most successful artist in the US since the beginning of the SoundScan era in 1991.

With an estimated net worth of $ 520 million, she is one of the richest musicians in the world.

biography

Carey in July 2013

1970–1987: youth

Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1970 or 1969 in Long Island , New York State, as the third child of Afro- Venezuelan technician Alfred Roy Carey and Irish opera singer and singing teacher Patricia Hickey. There are contradicting information about the exact year of birth.

Patricia Hickey and Alfred Roy Carey met in 1960 and married that same year. Carey was named after the title of the song They Call the Wind Mariah, the 1951 in the Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon (title dt. Paint Your Wagon ) for the first time was heard named. The multicultural family has moved several times over the years.

In 1973 the parents divorced; while Carey's sister, Alison, who was nine years older, stayed with her father, she and her brother Morgan grew up with their mother. At the age of four Carey started singing songs she heard on the radio. During elementary school, Carey performed well in her favorite subjects of literature, arts, and music. After several years of financial difficulties, her mother made enough money to move to a better area in New York. Mariah Carey started writing songs. She attended Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, as a singer-songwriter. Carey's singing skills continued to improve through singing lessons and training with her mother, which enabled her to master her whistle register from an early age . Her mother also opened up the world of classical opera to Carey. She never put Carey under pressure to become an opera singer. Carey recalls keeping her work as a singer-songwriter to herself and says of her mother, “She never said, 'You have to sing like an opera singer.' I respected the opera like crazy, but it didn't affect me. "

About her family and childhood, Mariah Carey said:

“Well, what does this mean? Am I a bad human? It's not that common to grow up in a multicultural family. But I'm happy with my cultural combinations. It was difficult for me to keep moving and seeing my parents split up. In the neighborhood I was ethnically different from the other children. That was a problem for me, everyone wanted to play with the 'white girls' and not with me. "

After finishing school in 1986, Mariah Carey tried her hand at backing vocals and began a relationship with Gavin Christopher, who was also very interested in music. Both founded a songwriter duo and were still looking for a keyboard player; “We called someone, but they couldn't come. We came across Ben Margulies by chance. Ben came into the studio and he really wasn't a good keyboard player - he was much more of a drummer - but we've kept in touch ever since and Ben turned out to be a good songwriter. ”After their first song Here We Go Round Again , they wrote more songs for a demo recording. Carey's mother married again, which is why Mariah left home and moved into a one-room apartment in Manhattan, which she also used as a studio. She later lived in a shared apartment with four other girls. During this time Carey worked in New York City as a waitress and cloakroom. On the side she tried relentlessly to gain a foothold as a singer. After completing a demo recording with four songs, she sent it to various record companies. Carey got an engagement with Brenda K. Starr, who made Latino pop in the 1980s and early 1990s. At a record company party, Starr played a demo tape to Columbia manager Thomas Mottola, who then signed Carey in 1988.

1988–1992: career start and successes with Mariah Carey and Emotions

Carey at the Shepherd's Bush Theater in 1990 after showing her single Vision of Love on The Wogan Show .

Carey's friendship with Starr also helped her find a record label to sign. Carey was eager to continue working with Margulies, but Mottola introduced Carey to producers Ric Wake, Narada Michael Walden and Rhett Lawrence. Mottola wanted to market Carey as the record company's lead female artist, like Whitney Houston and Madonna , who are the female stars on Arista and Sire Records . After completing her debut album of the same name, Mariah Carey , Columbia spent over a million dollars promoting the album. It hit record stores in June 1990.

In March 1991, her debut album made it to the top of the American Billboard 200 album chart . This success was helped by Carey's appearance at the 1991 Grammy Awards . Mariah Carey topped the Billboard charts for eleven consecutive weeks . At the 1991 Grammy Awards, Mariah won two Grammys in the categories Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her debut single Vision of Love . Four of the five singles released from the album reached number 1 in the official American singles chart Billboard Hot 100 (Vision of Love , Love Takes Time , Someday and I Don't Wanna Cry ), making Carey the first female artist ever and the second after the Jackson 5 , whose first four singles became number one hits. The first single Vision of Love was at the top of the charts for four weeks in the summer of 1990.

The second single Love Takes Time was able to build on the success of her debut single and became her second number one hit in the United States. The single stayed at number 1 for three weeks from November 10 to November 24, 1990. Carey won two BMI awards for the song in the R&B award categories for the song of the year and the songwriter award.

In December 1990, Someday was released as the third single. In March 1991 she was number 1 on the US charts for two weeks, for which Carey received another BMI award.

The March 1991 single I Don't Wanna Cry became Carey's fourth number-one hit in a row; she held number 1 in the USA for two weeks, for which she received the fourth BMI Award in a row. The fifth single, There's Got to Be a Way , was only released outside of the United States.

Mariah Carey became the most successful and best-selling album of 1991 in the United States, selling over 15 million copies in just one year.

Only a few months after the release of the debut album, the singer began working on her second work, entitled Emotions . According to Carey, the album pays homage to Motown soul music ; she wanted to pay tribute to the genre that had influenced her so much as a child. For the project she worked with Walter Afanasieff , Robert Clivillés and David Cole from the dance group C + C Music Factory . Carey ended her collaboration with her boyfriend Margulies.

On September 17, 1991 the second studio album Emotions was released worldwide . Critics rated the album even more positively than its debut. The album sold over 8 million times worldwide, but commercially it was unable to match the enormous success and sales figures of its predecessor. The theme song of their second album Emotions became their fifth consecutive number one on the US Billboard charts in October 1991 . So she was the only one so far ever to achieve the feat that all the first five singles in the American Billboard Hot 100 were number one hits (she broke the Jackson 5 record). Outside the United States, the song became Carey's most successful single since her debut with Vision of Love . It reached the top 5 in Canada and New Zealand and the UK top 20. In Australia, the song just missed the top ten. In the rest of Europe, the song was a moderate chart success. At the 1992 Grammy Awards , Emotions was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance , but lost to Something to Talk About by Bonnie Raitt . The song won a BMI R&B Award, so Carey continued her series, previously each of her singles had also won the BMI Award. The second single Can't Let Go ended Mariah's streak of number one hits as it only reached number 2 in the US, but was again awarded a BMI Award. The song Make It Happen , released in February 1992, reached number 5 on the Billboard charts as the third and final single on the album and was Carey's single with the least success to date.

After the release of their second album, critics asked Carey to go on a world tour to promote their material live. Although she said the tour proposal sounded intimidating to her because of her stage fright and the generally exhausting nature of her songs, critics suspected Carey was a "studio worm" and incapable was to prove her 5 octave voice for which she was known. To prove the opposite to the critics, Carey and Walter Afanasieff booked an appearance on MTV Unplugged , a TV program on MTV . Carey sang an unplugged version of each of her songs. A few days before the recording, Carey and Afanasieff thought of a cover version of an older song in order to surprise the audience. They chose the Jackson 5 song I'll Be There from 1970.

On March 16, 1992, the concert with Carey was recorded at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York. It was partly criticized that Carey's unplugged appearance was repeated several times a day on MTV, because normally such a program was only broadcast live once at the time. Encouraged by the success of the event, Sony released an EP and a video recording of it in June 1992 at reduced prices. The EP became a huge hit, refuting rumors that Carey was just a studio singer. The EP was awarded three platinum records in the United States and also achieved gold and platinum status in many European markets. The unplugged album became the second highest-grossing MTV unplugged album in history, and the release I'll Be There , originally by Jackson 5, was more successful than the original version. The second single was released from the album If It's Over , which, however, was only able to place in the Dutch charts. Carey sang the song at the 1992 Grammy Awards, among others .

1993–1996: marriage, Music Box and Daydream

In the spring of 1993 Carey began work on her third studio album, Music Box . Emotions had not been able to build on the commercial success of the debut album. So Carey and Columbia decided that the next album should be more pop influenced. During this time she often worked with Afanasieff, with whom she wrote and produced most of the songs on Music Box . Carey and Mottola began a relationship while recording the album. They married on June 5, 1993, guests at the ceremony included stars such as Barbra Streisand , Billy Joel , Gloria Estefan and Ozzy Osbourne .

Music Box was released worldwide on August 31st and immediately topped the American Billboard 200, but received different reception. Some praised the pop sound of the album, others criticized the fact that Carey's vocal qualities were not sufficiently emphasized. The first single Dreamlover became her seventh number one hit in the US in September 1993 and stayed at number one for eight weeks. This made it one of the most successful songs as well as the biggest number one hit (in weeks) of 1993 and her entire career. It was also Dream Lover honored in the US with a platinum record. Her second single, Hero , became one of Carey's most popular and inspired songs, and by Christmas 1993 it was the next number one hit in the US (her eighth). With Hero , Carey's popularity rose in Europe, where the single also hit the charts. With the release of the third single, Carey set another milestone. Her cover version of Badfingers Without You became her first number one hit in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. In the United States, the song only reached number 3. Due to its success, the album Music Box was also at the top of the charts.

The album became one of the most successful and best-selling of all time, with over 32 million units sold. Carey, who had not gone on tour for her first two albums, started her Music Box Tour in the USA , which included six concerts in North America. The short but successful tour was a big step for her as she was able to gain stage experience with the performances.

After the success of Music Box , Carey withdrew from the public and started a new project in the summer of 1994. It was kept a secret until Billboard magazine announced in its October issue that Carey would be releasing a Christmas album by the end of the year. In the summer of 1994 she recorded a duet with Luther Vandross : Endless Love , a song by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross , which was a number one hit in the United States as early as 1981. The song was released in August 1994 and again a great success in the USA with number 2. At this point Columbia was certain that Carey had established herself as a pop singer; they wanted to make Carey an entertainer now. The album Merry Christmas was released on November 1, 1994 and the same day followed with the first single with All I Want for Christmas Is You . The album became the best-selling Christmas album of all time with over 15 million units sold. In addition, All I Want for Christmas Is You was critically acclaimed and referred to as a “new modern Christmas carol alongside the classics”. Rolling Stone magazine described the song as a "Christmas Standard" and listed it at number 4 in the "Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs". Commercially, it became the most successful Christmas carol of all time and the most successful single by a Western artist in Asia, with 2.1 million units sold in the US alone. Right after Christmas Carey and Afanasieff started writing tracks for their next album.

Carey sings One Sweet Day with Boyz II Men at Madison Square Garden in 1995

On October 3, 1995, their fourth long-playing record Daydream was released . The album combines the pop music from Music Box with contemporary R&B and hip-hop influences. Carey helped shape it personally. The record label gave her more freedom, but then began to have doubts when Carey collaborated with rapper Ol 'Dirty Bastard on a remix of Fantasy . In addition, the new musical course led to tensions with Carey's then husband Tommy Mottola, who was also the label boss of the Columbia parent company Sony Music and who had planned Carey's career in detail up to that point. The more Carey took her musical future into her own hands, the more her marriage seemed to fall apart. Carey also recorded a cover version of the 1982 Journey song Open Arms for the album . It was released as the third single.

In September 1995, the first single Fantasy was released in an album version in which only she sings, as well as in a remix version, in which Carey was accompanied by the Wu Tang clan rapper Ol 'Dirty Bastard. The latter went straight to number 1 in the US charts. The concept of uniting pop singers and rappers in one feature (“feat.”) Became popular straight away and is now standard in Pop / RnB.

With Daydream Carey won two American Music Awards , Favorite Pop / Rock Female Artist and Favorite Soul / R & B Female Artist . She received four awards at the World Music Awards : World's Best Selling Female R&B Artist , World's Best Selling Overall Female Recording Artist , World's Best Selling Pop Artist and World's Best Selling Overall Recording Artist . The first single, Fantasy , was named Song of the Year at the BMI Awards and Favorite Song at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. In the latter, Carey also won the Top Pop Female award . In addition, at the Billboard Music Awards there were prizes for the Hot 100 Singles Artist of the Year , Hot 100 Airplay (Always Be My Baby) , Hot Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year and Special Award for 16 weeks at # 1 for One Sweet Day , the latter the award for One Sweet Day , which was # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the longest time. However, at the 1996 Grammy Awards , Carey experienced a disappointment. Although the album was nominated for six awards and she performed One Sweet Day live with Boyz II Men , she did not win any of the trophies. The cameras showed her face in close-up, showing the disappointment. Until the album The Emancipation of Mimi , for which she won three Grammys, she no longer appeared there.

The second single, One Sweet Day, is inspired by Cole's death. Overall, Daydream became their best-selling album in the United States, becoming Cary's second album, after Music Box, to earn a Diamond record. The album sold over 25 million times worldwide. Critics have named it their best work; The New York Times called it the best album of 1995: "Carey's songwriting has taken a leap forward and relaxed, has become sexier and less dependent on dull clichés." Like last time Carey only started a short tour, Daydream World Tour . There were a total of seven concerts, three in Japan and four in Europe.

1997–2000: divorce, soundtracks, greatest hits and new records

Mariah Carey at Edwards Air Force Base in December 1998

In 1997 Carey and Mottola got divorced. Carey also split up with her manager. Under her new manager, the album Butterfly was released in September , on which Carey covered a song by Prince . The first single, Honey , entered the charts again at number 1. When My All was released after a long break in the USA and also directly achieved number 1, Carey was able to record the fifth number one hits in a row for the second time in her career.

In order to release an album in the following year, a collection of their hitherto greatest hits together with some bonus tracks appeared in November 1998 under the title Number Ones .

In the same year Carey released the song When You Believe , a duet with Whitney Houston . The song was originally recorded for the 1998 soundtrack to The Prince of Egypt . The duet was not only another chart success, it also won an Oscar .

In November 1999 new material came out under the title Rainbow . The album features the singles Heartbreaker and Thank God I Found You , which also topped the charts . For the first time in Carey's musical career, however, the album was no longer assigned to the genre Pop / Soul, but rather rhythm and blues .

At the end of 1999 another cover version followed with the Irish boy band Westlife , this time of Phil Collins ' Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) , which reached number 1 in the UK charts. After Without You (1994), this was her second number one hit in the UK and her last number one hit in the UK charts to date.

With the release of the album Rainbow Carey still fulfilled her contract with Sony Music; she left the label and signed a recording deal with Virgin Records in 2000.

Carey published nine albums from 1990 to 1999, of which a total of 122 million copies were sold.

2001–2004: Modest success with glitter and charm bracelet

Carey played a singer in the 1980s in the 2001 film Glitter: A Star . The film flopped and was nominated for the Golden Raspberry as the worst film of the year . While the film itself missed that award, Carey won the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actress of the Year.

"To say that Mariah's acting debut didn't go so well would be like saying that the Titanic leaked a bit."

- John Wilson

Glitter, the first album that Carey released on Virgin Records, formed the soundtrack for the movie of the same name. The sales of the album fell short of the record company's expectations. The first single Loverboy, however, became the best-selling single of the year in the USA. In July 2001 Carey had a nervous breakdown and had to be treated in a clinic.

Due to the failure of Glitter , Virgin Records separated from Carey, who was signed by Universal Records a short time later and was able to record success again with the album "Charmbracelet", which was released in December 2002. That same year, she sang the American national anthem at the Super Bowl XXXVI at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans , Louisiana . This was followed by a supporting role in the film Wisegirls .

In May 2003 Carey returned to the charts with I Know What You Want (No. 3 on the US charts). In the same year she recorded her first remix album entitled The Remixes , which contains remixed versions of older songs. In the summer of that year Carey was honored with the Diamond Award at the World Music Awards in Monaco for over 150 million albums sold. That year she also completed a major world tour.

In October 2004 the song U Make Me Wanna , a duet with rapper Jadakiss , was released.

2005–2008: Successful comeback with The Emancipation Of Mimi and E = MC²

Mariah Carey on Good Morning America (2005)

When more than two years had passed after the last album, The Emancipation of Mimi was Carey's eighth studio album. With this record she was able to record again successes and including the singles in the USA has sold over 12 million times. At the 48th Grammy Awards she received three out of eight awards and was the most successful artist of the evening.

The single We Belong Together from the album The Emancipation Of Mimi was number 1 in the charts for 14 weeks in 2005. Don't Forget About Us was their 17th number one hit on the Billboard charts. Shake It Off reached number 2 on the US charts for several weeks. With her single We Belong Together still at number 1, she became the first female artist on the Billboard charts to take positions 1 and 2 there that same week.

In April 2006 she released the two tracks Say Somethin ' with Snoop Dogg and Fly Like A Bird in the USA .

In March 2007 she was featured on the cover of Playboy . In June 2007 she released the single Lil LOVE together with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

On November 30, 2007, Mariah Carey released a concert DVD that was filmed on her The Adventures of Mimi tour in Anaheim, California. On October 24, 2007, she presented her perfume M in the Macy’s department store in New York .

In April 2008 their eleventh studio album E = MC² was released. With the first single, Touch My Body , which was her 18th number one, Carey climbed to number two in the ranking of the most number one hits in the USA. She overtook Elvis Presley , who up to this point had made it to 17th number one. one hits. The second single from the album, the ballad Bye Bye, reached number 19. With the third single I'll Be Loving You Long Time Carey also failed to achieve a high chart position. The fourth single was I Stay In Love . The accompanying video was recorded in Las Vegas with Carey's husband Nick Cannon , whom she married on April 30, 2008 in the Bahamas .

Since 2009: more records and children

Mariah Carey in January 2009

Carey at the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7, 2010

In January 2009, the single My Love was released in the USA , a co-production of The Dream with Mariah Carey. The song comes from the album Love vs. Money by The-Dream. Carey's husband, Nick Cannon, directed the new video for the song My Love . The film was shot in Los Angeles. According to Billboard Magazine, E = MC² sold 1,221,000 times in the US in 2008. Even in the first four months of 2009 it still sold quite well, up to April 23, 2009 in the USA 1,250,588 times. According to the “International Phono Academy”, E = MC² went over the counter 2.1 million times in 2008 and was one of the 25 most successful CDs of the year.

In advance of Carey's first record label Sony released another compilation CD, The Ballads, in October 2008 . The album climbed to number 10 on the US album charts without much advertising. It was the lowest-selling CD in Mariah Carey's career up to that point. For the first time one of her albums outside the USA achieved better sales than in the States; in England, The Ballads received a gold award for 100,000 CDs sold. The CD has now sold almost 150,000 times on the British Isles and around 500,000 times worldwide (until April 2009).

On July 7, 2009 Carey sang the Jackson 5 song I'll Be There with Trey Lorenz at the official Michael Jackson funeral ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, which was broadcast worldwide .

On October 2nd, 2009 her new work Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel was released . The album, which was produced with The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, contains many love songs and a cover version of the 1984 Foreigner hit I Want to Know What Love Is . Mariah Carey dedicated the album to the "King of Pop", Michael Jackson. At the end of 2009 she had a role in the movie Precious - Life is precious .

On December 14, 2009, Billboard announced that their single We Belong Together (2005) was the song of the decade. She started her Angels Advocate tour with a live concert on December 31, 2009 in New York's Madison Square Garden .

On March 30, 2010 her next studio album Angels Advocate should be released, a collection of duets and songs from the previous album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel . 100% should be one of the first single releases. The title was actually recorded as the soundtrack for the film Precious , but was replaced by a song by singer Mary J. Blige . Instead, it was used for the 2010 Winter Olympics to motivate American athletes. The revenue from sales and downloads went to Team USA . In April 2010, work on the album was unexpectedly ended.

After canceling the recording of Angels Advocate , Carey announced that she would be going back into the studio and recording new material for her 13th studio album. It was supposed to be her second Christmas album, but work wasn't to start until the end of 2010. At the time she was working on an album, which was announced for spring 2011, which was to contain duets with Jermaine Dupri , Bryan-Michael Cox and Teddy Riley. According to Dupri, the first single should be released in late 2010 and the album shortly thereafter. Also, Johnta Austin and Randy Jackson were to sing along with Carey.

After getting married again to Cannon, she told the Chicago Sun-Times that she wanted a family too. In October 2010, she finally announced that she was pregnant again after a miscarriage two years ago. "We're having twins," revealed Nick Cannon on his radio show. On April 30, 2011, the twins Monroe (girl) and Moroccan (boy) were born.

The end of 2011 she was on her Christmas album Mistletoe by Justin Bieber to hear; for this she had recorded a duet cover version of her own Christmas hit All I Want For Christmas is You with him .

On July 23, 2012, Mariah Carey was confirmed to be a judge on American Idol's twelfth season .

On May 27, 2014 her 14th album Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse was released . Since its sales fell far below expectations, she parted ways with her long-time manager and producer Jermaine Dupri.

In August 2015, Mariah Carey was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

In April 2018, she made public that she had suffered from bipolar disorder for years .

Acting career

Carey and Robert De Niro at the premiere of Tennessee at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2008

Carey took acting lessons for the first time in 1997 and got his first small roles the following year. She made her acting debut in 1999 as an opera singer in the romance The Bachelor , in which she played a supporting role alongside Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger . Carey received a lot of media praise for her role.

In the 2001 film Glitter , Carey played a singer from the 1980s. The film flopped and was nominated for the Golden Raspberry for worst film of the year. While the film escaped this award, Carey won the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actress of the Year for her portrayal.

Carey, Mira Sorvino and Melora Walters played three waitresses in a restaurant in the 2002 film Wisegirls . The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival , and like its predecessor, it received poor reviews from critics. Wisegirls producer Anthony Esposito recorded the film The Sweet Science about an unknown female boxer with Carey in 2006 , it was never released.

Carey was one of several musicians who appeared in the films Death of a Dynasty (2003) and State Property 2 (2005). Her work for television began in June 2002 in an episode of Ally McBeal . Carey made a cameo in Adam Sandler's 2008 film Don't Mess With The Messi .

In 2006 Carey began work on the film Tennessee , which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival . In it she played a woman who by singing their livelihood wants to contest. The film received various reviews from critics, but Carey received praise for her role. In 2009 she played a social worker in the film Precious . The film received good reviews and Carey's role in it is considered by critics to be her best yet. Carey won prizes for Precious at the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival.

She was also slated for a role in the film adaptation of the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by director Tyler Perry . But she left the project in May 2010 for health reasons. Her role was taken on by Thandie Newton .

style

Carey at a live performance of the song "Hero"

Carey said she was inspired by R&B and soul musicians like Billie Holiday , Sarah Vaughan , Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin since childhood . Their music is heavily influenced by gospel music ; their role models in this area include The Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar and Edwin Hawkins . When Carey combined her music with hip-hop elements, she invented the concept of uniting pop singer and rapper in one feature (“feat.”); this became popular right away and is now standard in pop business. Regarding this, Carey told Newsweek, "People don't understand that I grew up with hip-hop music". Carey has worked with rappers like The Sugarhill Gang , Eric B. & Rakim , Wu-Tang Clan , The Notorious BIG and Mobb Deep , with the latter she had a duet on the single The Roof (Back in Time) in 1998 .

Carey's musical and vocal style and the resulting success have been consistently compared to Whitney Houston and Celine Dion throughout her career .

singing

Mariah Carey is known for her vocal range of five octaves , which includes all octaves between alto and soprano , and her ability to sing in the whistle register , which she has demonstrated with many songs. She is also known for belting , which singers such as Freddie Mercury , Whitney Houston, Chris Cornell , Christina Aguilera and Patti LaBelle use.

In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Carey 79th in its list of the 100 best singers of all time .

Content and musical style

Love is the main theme of many of Mariah Carey's songs, but also themes such as racism , alienation , death and spirituality .

Carey's arrangements are inspired by musicians like Stevie Wonder , whom Carey describes as a “20th century genius,” but she said, “My voice is my instrument ; and always will be. "

Carey also recorded remixed versions of many of her songs and re-sang these versions. The disc jockey David Morales took Carey some remixes on (the first in 1993 by Carey's single Dream Lover ), the remixes of pop music in House music popular made, the Slant magazine called the remix version of Dream Lover one of the best House- / Dance -Songs of all time. Carey recorded a hip-hop and a house version of her 1995 song Fantasy .

Influence on other artists

Carey's singing has had a huge impact on pop music and the music industry. Music critic G. Brown of The Denver Post said that "Mariah Carey's five-octave range and melisma influenced a generation of pop singers ." According to Rolling Stone, her perfection of melisma and ballads like Vision of Love is an inspiration for every singer and talent show ( American Idol ). Beyoncé said she started singing after hearing Carey's Vision of Love . White pop artists like Britney Spears , * NSYNC and Christina Aguilera combine R&B and pop in their songs thanks to Carey. According to Pier Dominguez, the author of Christina Aguilera: a star is made: the unauthorized biography, Aguilera said that she loved Whitney Houston music , but that Mariah Carey had a greater influence on her and her singing style. Philip Brasor, editor of The Japan Times, says Carey's music inspires many Asian singers. The Japanese singer Hikaru Utada sings Japanese pop music in a Mariah Carey-like vocal style.

social commitment

Carey has been involved in various organizations such as the Fresh Air Fund against Famine throughout her career . She became a member of the organization in the mid-1990s and founded a camp in Fishkill, New York , to help alleviate global famine. She named the camp Camp Mariah . She received the Congressional Horizon Award for her social commitment . She also works with the Make-A-Wish Foundation with the aim of giving the children a good future. For this Carey received the Foundation's Wish Idol in November 2006 for her social commitment and collaboration. Carey also volunteers for the New York Police Department . Much of the proceeds from the sale of MTV Unplugged were donated to various protection organizations. In 2008 Carey received the World Hunger Relief Movement Award . She grants those who donate to her organizations a free download of her song Love Story .

In 2005 Carey sang at the Live 8 concert in London and at Hurricane Katrina - Telethon Shelter from the Storm to raise money for the victims of the disaster. In August 2008 Carey and other singers recorded the benefit single Just Stand Up! produced by Babyface and LA Reid for the Stand Up to Cancer project to raise funds for research in translational medicine to fight cancer via the internet and television . On September 5, 2008, the singers performed the song live on television. In 2010 Carey was a member of the charity formation Helping Haiti , which re-recorded the song Everybody Hurts (originally by REM from 1992) to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti .

Discography

→ Main article : Mariah Carey / discography  and list of songs by Mariah Carey

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1990	Mariah Carey	DE24 (19 weeks) DE	-	CH15th gold (15 weeks)CH	UK6th platinum (43 weeks)UK	US1 × 9 Nine-fold platinum (113 weeks)US	R&B3 (68 weeks) R&B	First published: June 17, 1990 Sales: + 15,000,000
1991	Emotions	DE46 (5 weeks) DE	AT39 (1 week) AT	CH15th gold (9 weeks)CH	UK4th platinum (40 weeks)UK	US4th × 4 Quadruple platinum (54 weeks)US	R&B6 (44 weeks) R&B	First published: September 17, 1991 Sales: + 5,510,000
1993	Music box	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (80 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (40 weeks)AT	CH1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (72 weeks)CH	UK1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (78 weeks)UK	US1 diamond (128 weeks)US	R&B1 (86 weeks) R&B	First published: August 31, 1993 Sales: +32,000,000
1995	Daydream	DE1 platinum (43 weeks)DE	AT5 gold (21 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (27 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (49 weeks)UK	US1 diamond (81 weeks)US	R&B1 (74 weeks) R&B	First published: October 3, 1995 Sales: + 25,000,000
1997	butterfly	DE7 (26 weeks) DE	AT5 (16 weeks) AT	CH3 gold (17 weeks)CH	UK2 platinum (31 weeks)UK	US1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (55 weeks)US	R&B3 (54 weeks) R&B	First published: September 6, 1997 Sales: + 7,375,000
1999	Rainbow	DE3 platinum (20 weeks)DE	AT4 (9 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (25 weeks)CH	UK8th gold (20 weeks)UK	US2 × 3 Triple platinum (35 weeks)US	R&B2 (31 weeks) R&B	First published: November 2nd, 1999 Sales: + 7,000,000
2002	Charm bracelet	DE32 (5 weeks) DE	AT34 (7 weeks) AT	CH9 gold (10 weeks)CH	UK52 gold (5 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (22 weeks)US	R&B2 (25 weeks) R&B	First published: December 3, 2002 Sales: + 1,600,000
2005	The Emancipation of Mimi	DE14 (32 weeks) DE	AT19 (12 weeks) AT	CH9 (27 weeks) CH	UK7th × 2 Double platinum (50 weeks)UK	US1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (74 weeks)US	R&B1 (80 weeks) R&B	First published: April 4, 2005 Sales: + 12,000,000
2008	E = MC²	DE7 (7 weeks) DE	AT8 (5 weeks) AT	CH5 (10 weeks) CH	UK3 gold (13 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (27 weeks)US	R&B1 (47 weeks) R&B	First published: April 8, 2008 Sales: + 2,500,000
2009	Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel	DE27 (2 weeks) DE	AT39 (1 week) AT	CH18 (6 weeks) CH	UK23 silver (5 weeks)UK	US3 gold (27 weeks)US	R&B1 (59 weeks) R&B	First published: September 28, 2009 Sales: +2,000,000
2014	Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse	DE27 (1 week) DE	AT38 (1 week) AT	CH16 (2 weeks) CH	UK14 (2 weeks) UK	US3 (8 weeks) US	R&B1 (15 weeks) R&B	First published: May 23, 2014 US sales: + 100,000
2018	Caution	DE67 (1 week) DE	AT54 (1 week) AT	CH35 (1 week) CH	UK40 (1 week) UK	US5 (3 weeks) US	R&B1 (... week) R&B	First published: November 16, 2018

Filmography (selection)

• 1999: The Bachelor (The Bachelor)
• 2001: Glitter - shine of a star (glitter)
• 2002: Ally McBeal (guest appearance on the US series)
• 2002: Wisegirls (or: Three Angels Against the Mafia)
• 2003: Death of a Dynasty
• 2005: State Property 2
• 2008: Do not mess with Zohan (You Do not Mess with the Zohan)
• 2008: Tennessee
• 2009: Precious : Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
• 2013: The Butler (The Butler)
• 2015: A Christmas Melody
• 2017: Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You (voice)
• 2017: The LEGO Batman Movie (voice in original)

Tours

"The Adventures of Mimi Tour" (2006)

• 1993: Music Box Tour
• 1996: Daydream Tour
• 1998: Butterfly Tour
• 2000: Rainbow Tour
• 2003-2004: Charm bracelet World Tour
• 2004 - 2018: All I Want for Christmas Is You: A Night of Joy and Festivity
• 2006: The Adventures of Mimi Tour
• 2010: Angels Advocate Tour (US)
• 2014: The Elusive Chanteuse Show (Asia, Oceania)
• 2016: The Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour (Europe, Baltic States, South Africa)
• 2019: Caution World Tour

Residence concerts

• 2015 - 2017: # 1 To Infinity (The Colosseum / Caesars Palace, Las Vegas)
• 2018: The Butterfly Returns (The Colosseum / Caesars Palace, Las Vegas )

Labels

• 1990-2001: Columbia Records
• 2001-2002: Virgin
• 2002–2015: Universal Records (Island Records)
• since 2015: Epic Records

Awards

→ Main article : List of Mariah Carey's awards

literature

• Fred Bronson : The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits. Updated and expanded 5th edition. Billboard Books, New York NY 2003, ISBN 0-8230-7677-6 .
• Mike Duffy: Mariah Carey leads heartfelt holiday special to promote adoption ( Memento from May 19, 2004 in the Internet Archive ). Detroit Free Press . December 21, 2001.
• Paul du Noyer (Ed.): The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music. (From Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues and Hip Hop to Classical, Folk, World and more). Flame Tree Publishing, London 2003, ISBN 1-904041-70-1 , p. 57.
• Guinness Rockopedia. (The Ultimate A - Z of Rock & Pop). Guinness Publishing, London 1998, ISBN 0-85112-072-5 , p. 74.
• Phil Hardy: The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music. Fully Revised 3rd Edition. Faber and Faber, London 2001, ISBN 0-571-19608-X , pp. 156-157.
• Colin Larkin (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 2: Burnett, Carol - Dusty, Slim. Macmillan, London 1998 (3rd edition), ISBN 0-333-74134-X , p. 934.
• Larry King Live . CNN. Broadcast on December 19, 2002 .
• Chris Nickson: Mariah Carey Revisited. Her story. 1st St. Martin's Griffin edition. St. Martin's Griffin, New York NY 1998, ISBN 0-312-19512-5 .
• Lucy O'Brien: She Bop II. The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. Continuum, London a. a. 2002, ISBN 0-8264-5776-2 , pp. 29, 476-481.
• People in the News . CNN. Broadcast on April 30, 2005.
• Marc Shapiro: Mariah Carey. The Unauthorized Biography. ECW Press, Toronto 2001, ISBN 1-55022-444-1 .
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. The sixties. Record Research, Menomonee Falls WI 1990, ISBN 0-89820-074-1 .
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. The nineties. Record Research, Menomonee Falls WI 2000, ISBN 0-89820-137-3 .

Web links

 Wikinews: Mariah Carey  - on the news

Commons : Mariah Carey  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official site (English)
• Official German site
• Mariah Carey on MusicBrainz (English)
• Mariah Carey at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Mariah Carey in the catalog of the German National Library
• US charts and sales compiled by Billboard magazine and Nielsen SoundScan
• Sasha Frere-Jones: On Top: Mariah Carey's record-breaking career . The New Yorker . April 3, 2006.
• UK Charts compiled by the Official UK Charts Company . Retrieved February 7, 2007.

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ Wish Come True: Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' Hits No. 1 on Hot 100 After 25-Year Wait. Retrieved December 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Silvio Pietroluongo: Mariah, Madonna Make Billboard Chart History. In: Billboard. April 2, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
5. ↑ Mariah's New Single Available At iTunes on Sept. 15th! . In: Island Def Jam Music Group . Retrieved October 13, 2008.
6. ↑ Mariah Carey's new single “I Want To Know What Love Is” impacts at radio on Sept. 14th ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Celebrate New Year's Eve with Mariah Carey! ( Memento from November 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ Winners of the World Music Awards ( Memento October 15, 2000 in the Internet Archive ). World Music Awards . May 2000. Retrieved November 19, 2006 by the Wayback Machine
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10. ^ "Gold and Platinum - Top Selling Artists" . Recording Industry Association of America
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17. ^ ^{A b} Nickson: Mariah Carey Revisited. 1998, pp. 10-11.
18. ^ ^{A b} Nickson: Mariah Carey Revisited. 1998, p. 13.
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20. ^ ^{A b} Nickson: Mariah Carey Revisited. 1998, p. 17.
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33. ↑ Year Ends Well for Countries Hottest Stars . In: Chicago Tribune , Tribune Company, December 27, 1991. Retrieved August 19, 2011. 
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62. ^ Search The Charts . In: The Irish Charts . Irish Recorded Music Association . Retrieved October 23, 2010.
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71. ↑ Tom Thompson: Let the Yuel Duel Begin . In: The Daily Telegraph , Telegraph Media Group, April 19, 2008. Retrieved May 10, 2011. 
72. ^ Dan Hancox: Sounds of the Season . In: The National , Mubadala Development Company , November 26, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010. 
73. ^ Andy Greene: The Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs . In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media . Retrieved December 20, 2010.
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88. ↑ # 1's . NME . Retrieved March 10, 2006.
89. ^ Predicate "Particularly worthless". Retrieved February 23, 2011 . 
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91. ↑ wordpress.com
92. ↑ Mariah Carey Releases Newly Remixed Album of Duets - ANGELS ADVOCATE - March 30th on Island Records
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94. ↑ Tim Teeman: David LaChapelle: the man who shot fame , The Times . April 24, 2010. 
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96. ↑ mariahjournal.com ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
97. ↑ Rap-Up.com: JD Talks New Mariah Carey Album
98. ↑ MariahDaily: Video: Mariah, JD, B.Cox, Randy Live on Ustream  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
99. ^ Bill Zwecker: Carey Looks to Adoption. (No longer available online.) Chicago Sun-Times , May 4, 2010, archived from the original on May 7, 2010 ; Retrieved May 27, 2010 . 
100. ↑ A scrap of privacy, Spiegel Online, October 29 of 2010.
101. ↑ Husband confirms: Mariah Carey is expecting twins, picture, December 17, 2010.
102. ↑ n-tv: Carey gives birth to twins
103. ↑ X-Mas with Justin Bieber and Mariah Carey ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Promipool, accessed October 20, 2011. 
104. ↑ Mariah Carey as a juror at American Idol, in English
105. ↑ Andrew Hampp: Mariah Carey Announces 14th Album, 'Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse '. In: Billboard. January 5, 2014, accessed April 2, 2015 . 
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107. ↑ Walk of Fame: Mariah Carey Receives a Hollywood Star Star Online, July 27, 2015.
108. ↑ Mariah Carey: Surprising Outing About Mental Disorder. Retrieved April 11, 2018 . 
109. ↑ Paul Tatara: Review: 'The Bachelor' - cold feet, bad film , November 9, 1999, accessed March 23, 2010.
110. ^ Roger Friedman: Mariah Makes Good in Mob Movie ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Fox News. January 14, 2002. Retrieved March 23, 2010. 
111. ↑ Corey Moss: Despite 'Glitter,' Mariah Carey's Movie Career Could Still Sparkle . MTV.com. February 20, 2002. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
112. ↑ Mike Sampson: Mariah and Sandler? ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . JoBlo.com. June 11, 2007. Retrieved March 23, 2010. 
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115. ^ Joel Keller: Tribeca Review: Tennessee . Cinematical. April 30, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
116. ^ Mariah Carey surprisingly effective in Tennessee . Reuters. May 1, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
117. ↑ Tennessee reviews at . Metacritic.com. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
118. ^ Wilson Morales: Lee Daniels Film Renamed 'PRECIOUS' . In: Black Voices . AOL. February 20, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
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121. ^ John Anderson: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire . Variety.com. January 18, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
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124. ↑ Precious wins top Toronto film festival prize | Entertainment . Reuters. September 19, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
125. ↑ Daily News Staff: Weeks after tipsy awards speech, Mariah Carey pops cork on her own liquor brand, Angel Champagne . In: NYDailynews.com , January 17, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2010. 
126. ^ Mariah Carey Drops Out of Film Due to Medical Reasons , May 27, 2010
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128. ↑ Mariah Carey . Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
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132. ↑ Guinness Rockopedia. Guinness Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-85112-072-5 , p. 74.
133. ↑ ^{a b} Higher and Higher ( Memento from June 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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135. ↑ ^{a b} Bill Martin: Pro Secrets of Heavy Rock Singing . Sanctuary Publishing, 2002, ISBN 1-86074-437-0 , p. 9.
136. ↑ Malcolm Walker, for French magazine VOXPOP , N ° 11, p. 83.
137. ↑ billboard.com
138. ↑ Princess Positive is taking care of the inner Mariah . The Sydney Morning Herald . April 1, 2003. Retrieved March 12, 2006.
139. ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 9, 2017 . 
140. ↑ Christopher John Farley: Pop's Princess Grows Up . TIME . September 25, 1995. Retrieved March 12, 2006.
141. ^ Barry Walters: Marked Woman . The Village Voice . 5th-11th September 2001.
142. ↑ Mariah Carey savors a charmed year . Yahoo! Music . November 2005. Retrieved March 12, 2006.
143. ↑ John Norris: Mariah: Remixes, Reunions and Russia . MTV.com. October 2003. Retrieved March 12, 2006.
144. ↑ 100 Greatest Dance Songs: 100–91. Slant , 2006, accessed February 12, 2015 . 
145. ^ Gem Carey. (No longer available online.) In: Entertainment Weekly. January 2006, archived from the original on January 10, 2006 ; Retrieved March 12, 2006 . 
146. ↑ G. Brown: Careyed away the singer with fantastic vocal range belts out songs with technical precision and too little feeling . In: The Denver Post , August 29, 2003. Retrieved July 25, 2010. 
147. ↑ 100 Greatest Singers of All Time - Mariah Carey . In: Rolling Stone . Retrieved February 12, 2015.
148. ^ The japan Times
149. ↑ Fresh Air Fund Summer Programs: Summer Camping. (No longer available online.) In: Fresh Air Fund. Archived from the original on March 2, 2006 ; accessed on March 17, 2006 (English). 
150. ^ Mariah Carey to Receive Congressional Award for Charity Efforts. In: MTV.com. April 13, 1999, accessed April 22, 2006 . 
151. ↑ Mariah Receives Wish Icon Award ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . MariahCarey.com. November 20, 2006. Retrieved November 21, 2006. 
152. ^ Mariah becomes Global Hunger Ambassador. In: Mariah Carey Archives. Retrieved February 12, 2015 . 
153. ^ "Just Stand Up" Star-Studded Charitable Single Sets Pace For Stand Up To Cancer Fundraising Campain . Standup2cancer.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 21, 2009. 
154. ↑ ^{a b} Clay Cane: Mariah Celebrates Twenty Years. BET , June 11, 2010, accessed October 16, 2014 . 
155. ↑ diereichsten.de
156. ↑ Jane Stevenson: Carey's TO concert tix. Canoe, November 30, 2004; archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on November 1, 2015 . 
157. ↑ Pop CDs of the week: Mariah Carey, Pete Molinari and more ... In: The Telegraph . April 19, 2008, accessed October 16, 2014 . 
158. ^ Chartsinfrance.net
159. ↑ Mariah Carey Pushes Back 'The Art Of Letting Go' Release Date. The Inquisitr News, June 25, 2013, accessed October 16, 2014 . 
160. ^ Andrew Hampp: Mariah Sheds Her Manager - Again. Billboard , August 6, 2014, accessed October 16, 2014 .