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 ofColumbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her
self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey.
The album went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles,
on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records, including Emotions (1991), Music Box (1993)
and Merry Christmas (1994),
established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act.Daydream (1995),
made music history when the second single, "One Sweet Day" a duet with Boyz II Men, spent a record sixteen weeks
on top of the Billboard Hot 100, and remains the longest running number one song in US chart history.
During the recording of the album Carey began to deviate from her pop
background, and slowly traversed into R&B and Hip-hop. After her separation
from Mottola, this musical change was evident with the release of Butterfly (1997).
Carey left
Columbia in 2000, and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording
contract with Virgin Records. In 2001, Carey ventured
into film with Glitter (2001). Before the film's release she
suffered a physical and emotional breakdown and was hospitalized for severe
exhaustion. Following the film's poor reception, she was bought out of her
recording contract for $50 million, which led to a decline in her career. She
signed a multi-million dollar contract deal with Island Records in 2002, and after an unsuccessful
period, returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005).
Its second single "We Belong Together",
which became her most successful single of the 2000's, and was later named
"Song of the Decade" byBillboard. Carey
once again ventured into film, and starred in Precious (2009). Her role in the film was
well-received, and she was awarded the "Breakthrough Performance
Award" at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and a NAACP Image Awardnomination.
In a career
spanning over two decades, Carey has sold more than 200 million records
worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of
all time. In 1998, she was honored as the world's best-selling recording artist
of the 1990s at the World Music Awards.
Carey was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium in 2000.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is thethird best-selling female artist in the United States, with
63 million certified albums. With the release of "Touch My Body" (2008), Carey gained
her eighteenth number one single in the United States, more than any other solo
artist. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Carey has won five Grammy Awards, and is famed for her
five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style
and signature use of the whistle register.
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