Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia’s highest-selling act. According to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States.
With a No. 1 single each year in the decade, Mariah Carey is the biggest-selling female solo artist of the 1990s. Mariah Carey’s mother was an opera singer turned vocal coach. Now we know how Mariah got that five-octave range! In 1993, Carey wed Tommy Mottola, the head of her record label. The two divorced four years later. In 1999, Carey pushed ahead of the Beatles as the artist with the most cumulative weeks spent topping the singles chart. Mariah Carey is from Long Island, N.Y. She moved to New York City the day after graduating high school.
Following her separation from Mottola in 1997, Carey introduced elements of hip hop into her album work, to much initial success, but her popularity was in decline when she left Columbia in 2001, and she was dropped by Virgin Records the following year after a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. In 2002, Carey signed with Island Records, and after a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the forefront of pop music in 2005.
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