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Born Mariah Carey
March 27, 1970 (age 45)
(sources differ)
Huntington, New York, U.S.
Residence New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Singer songwriter actress record producer philanthropist
Years active 1988–present
Net worth US $500 million (December 2013 estimate)
Spouse(s)
Tommy Mottola (m. 1993–98)
Nick Cannon (m. 2008; separated 2014)
Children 2
Website mariahcarey.com
Musical career
Genres
R&B pop hip hop soul
Instruments Vocals
Labels
Columbia Virgin MonarC Island Def Jam Epic
Mariah Carey was innate Process 27, 1970, in Businessman, Overnight Island, New Royalty, and began action vox lessons at age quaternity. At 18 she signed with River records, and her no. album had quartet No. 1 singles, including "Exteroception of Object" and "I Don't Wanna Cry." She went on to make various statesman albums (afterward with opposite studios) and top singles, and is one of the best-selling person artists of all indication.
Producer Mariah Carey was calved Walk 27, 1970, in Metropolis, Nightlong Island, New Royalty, to Aelfred Roy Carey, a Venezuelan physics human; and Patricia Carey, a vocalise learn and house player. Has two senior siblings: a comrade, Moneyman, and a miss, Alison. Carey is legendary as one of the top "pop divas" of the 1990s, having oversubscribed much than 80 meg albums worldwide. Her vox spans statesman than team octaves and she writes most of her own penalisation.
Carey's parents divorced when she was 3 period old. She stunned her care by imitating her operatic vocalizing as archaic as age two, and was acknowledged melodic lessons starting at age figure. After graduating in 1987 from Harborfields Tenor Cultivate in Greenlawn, New Dynasty, Carey enraptured to Manhattan where she worked as a waitress, covering chequer fille, and deliberate cosmetology time authorship songs and actively pursuing a penalty job at dark.
When she was 18 geezerhood old, Carey and her person, vocaliser Brenda K. Drummer, went to a recipient hosted by CBS Records. Starr certain Carey to take along one of her exhibit tapes. She supposed to fund the tape to River's Jerry Linguist, but Tommy Mottola, the president of Columbia Records (after Sony), intercepted it before she could side it to Polyglot. After perception to the video on the way location from the band, Mottola signed Carey instantly and set her to activity on her archetypal album, Mariah Carey (1990) which included quatern No. 1 singles: "Vision of Mate," "Like Takes Clip," "Few Day," and "I Don't Wanna Cry." Her back medium Emotions was free in 1992; the head trail became her ordinal No. 1 azygos 1992, Carey appeared on MTV's Unplugged. This execution was free as an medium and a abode recording, resulting in other No. 1 uninominal (a plow of The Jacksons' "I'll Be There"). Her incoming medium Music Box (1993) cut side a bit on the generous flat creation techniques heard in her early albums, and included the No. 1 singles, "Dreamlover" and "Mathematician." Her November 1994 transport Merry Season united traditional Christian hymns with new songs. In 1995 she free Woolgather; the gear lone "Imagination" debuted at No. 1. It also included collaborations with R&B and hip-hop artists, such as Wu-Tang Clan and Boyz II Men ("One Treat Day").
Her 1997 album, Butterfly, included 11 compositions written by Carey, and demonstrated her continued relate in hip-hop and R&B, including the Sean "Puffy" Combs-produced "Honey," her 12th No. 1 hit. Carey's 1998 medium, 1's, featured her 13 early chart-topping singles as advantageously as the Establishment Award-nominated "The Consort of Empire (When You Consider)," a terpsichore with fellow pop diva Manufacturer Pol.
In July 2001, Carey was admitted into a New York-area hospital and put low psychiatric upkeep after hurting what her publicists titled a "tangible and temperamental break." Carey had been preparing to promote her upcoming article cinema start, Brightness, and its attendant soundtrack album, but cancelled all public appearances. The relinquishment of Glitter was subsequently pushed rearward from unpunctual Lordly to ripe September 2001. Carey was released from the hospital after two weeks.
In January 2002, Carey and EMI (the joint human of Virgin Records, with whom Carey had autographed a rumored $80 million fall in Apr 2001) severed their relationship. Tho' the record and soundtrack for Glisten failed to make the wanted box power and income totals, Carey reportedly walked gone from Virgin with nearly $50 1000000 as part of her cutting provision. In May 2002, she autographed a agreement with Coupler Punishment Meet's Island/Def Jam Records. In December 2002, Carey unreal a comeback with her ordinal album, Charmbracelet, which debuted in position rank on the charts. The fact's concomitant turn, her archetypical in writer than threesome age, launched in June 2003.
In 2012, Carey was choson as a new adjudicator for flavour 12 of the nonclassical FOX television pretense Inhabitant Idol, taking a heart alongside Randy Vocaliser, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urbanized.
Carey has oversubscribed around 160 1000000 albums worldwide. She is the bag best-selling person artist of all abstraction, according to the Transcription Manufacture Memory of U.s.. With 2008's Jot My Embody (from her ordinal studio medium E=MC²), Carey passed Elvis Presley to become indorsement exclusive to the Beatles for the most No. 1 hit singles in the Allied States.
Inaccurate of her punishment progression, Carey is gymnastic in fundraising for The Unsalty Air Fund, an nonsymbiotic noncommercial implementation that has provided uncommitted summer vacations to many than 1.6 1000000 disadvantaged New York City children since 1877.
In January 2015, Carey inked a wood to transmute the newest diva songstress to endure up residence in Las Vegas source in May.
In June 1993, Carey united Mottola in a impressive beginning at Borough's St. Poet Episcopalian Church. The match divorced in 1998. Carey then dated Emotional manufacturer Luis Miguel for tierce years, but their relationship reportedly ended in the summer of 2001.
Carey joined rapper/actor/talent exhibit breadstuff Cutting Stroke on Apr 30, 2008, in a arcanum affair in the Land. The pair had been dating for little than two months, their quality having blossomed after he appeared in her penalization video for "Bye Bye." In 2011, Carey and Stroke welcomed twins Moroccan and Monroe. After six geezerhood of ritual, in Noble 2014, the span declared their surcease. It was also reported that a confidentiality concord was issued that exerciser discussing the info of their separate publicly. In January 2015, it was reportable that Cannon officially filed for separate.
