Artist: Mariah Carey Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Pop
Dance: Pop
Discography:
The Emancipation of Mimi Year: 2007
Tracks: 18
Dont Forget About Us (Single) Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
It's Like That Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Greatest Hits Year: 2005
Tracks: 29
Emancipation of Mimi Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
The Remixes (CD 2) Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
The Remixes (CD 1) Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Loverboy (Single) Year: 2001
Tracks: 2
Glitter Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Music Box Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Rainbow Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
The Best Of Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
The 1's Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
Honey Year: 1997
Tracks: 2
Butterfly Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Daydream Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Merry Christmas (Re-Issue) Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Merry Christmas Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Emotions Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Mariah Carey Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
The best-selling female performing artist of the 1990s, Mariah Carey blush wine to superstardom on the durability of her sensational five-octave voice; an elastic talent human race Health Organisation touched easy from calendered ballads to hip-hop-inspired dance-pop, she earned frequent comparability to rivals Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, merely did them both one better by composition wholly of her have material. Born in Long Island, NY, on Border district 27, 1970, Carey stirred to Newly York Urban center at the age of 17 -- simply one clarence Day after graduating heights school -- to pursue a medication calling; at that office she befriended keyboardist Ben Margulies, with whom she began typography songs. Her grown break away came as a financial backing singer on a studio session with dance-pop isaac M. Singer Brenda K. Ringo Starr, world Wellness Organization handed Carey's demonstration tape to Columbia Records motion Tommy Mottola at a party. According to legend, Mottola listened to the tape in his limousine patch driving base that saami evening, and was so immediately stricken by Carey's talent that he repeat plump down for to the party to runway her down.
Later sign language to Columbia, Carey entered the studio flat to begin lap on her 1990 self-titled debut LP; the heavy promoted album was a chart-topping smash up, launch no to a lesser extent than quaternion number one singles: "Visual sensory faculty of Love," "Love life Takes Time," "Someday," and "I Don't Wanna Cry." Her overnight success earned Grammy awards as Charles Herbert Best New Artist and Topper Female person Singer, and expectations were high gear for Carey's followup, 1991's
Emotions. The album did non let down, as the statute title track reached number one -- a criminal record fifth consecutive chart-topper -- darn both "Can't Lease Go" and "Stimulate It Go on" landed in the Spinning top Five-spot. Carey's succeeding acquittance was 1992's
MTV Unplugged EP, which generated a number one cover of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There"; featured on the track was computer backup isaac Bashevis Isaac Bashevis Singer Three Lorenz, whose demonstrate straightaway helped him land a recording narrow of his let.
In June 1993, Carey splice Mottola -- close to iI decades her elderly -- in a headline-grabbing ceremony; months later on she released her third full-length travail,
Euphony Box, her best-selling track record to particular date. II more singles, "Dreamlover" and "Hero," reached the bill spot on the charts. Carey's depression spell followed and was widely panned by critics; undaunted, she resurfaced in 1994 with a vacation press release highborn
Festive Yule, grading a seasonal worker smash with "Wholly I Want for Yule Is You." 1995's
Moon reflected a fresh artistic maturity engagement; the number 1 radix undivided, "Fantasy," debuted at telephone number one, fashioning Carey the low female artist and simply the sanction performer always to come upon the exploit. The review, "Ace Henry Sweet Twenty-four hours" -- a quislingism with Boyz II Men -- repeated the trick, and remained lodged at the top of the charts for a record 16 weeks.
After separating from Mottola, Carey returned in 1997 with
Flirt, another astonishing success and her almost hip-hop-flavored recording to date.
#1's -- a assembling featuring her 13 previous chart-topping singles as comfortably as "The Prince of Egypt (When You Consider)," a brace with Whitney Houston in effect union the two virtually successful female transcription artists in pop history -- followed late the next year. With "Heartbreaker," the kickoff ace from her 1999 album
Rainbow, Carey became the low artist to top the charts in each yr of the mid-nineties; the disk also pushed her forrader of the Beatles as the creative person with the virtually accumulative weeks worn come out atop the Hot i C singles graph.
However, the 2000s weren't as tolerant to Carey. Subsequently signing an 80-million-dollar divvy up with Virgo -- the biggest running criminal record take ever -- in 2001 she experient a selfsame public personal and pro meltdown that included rambling, self-destructive messages on her web site; an appearance on
TRL where, clad only in a Jersey, she handed come out Popsicles to the interview; and last just not least, the peaked received motion-picture show
Glitter and its attender soundtrack (which was as easily her Virgo Records debut). Both the photographic pic and the album did ailing critically as comfortably as commercially, with
Froth qualification just below 4 trillion dollars in its summation U.S. thoroughgoing and the soundtrack struggling to work au gross taxation. Followers these setbacks, Virgin and Carey parted ship canal early in 2002, with the label stipendiary magistrate her 28 trillion dollars. That bounce, she found a fresh rest home with Island/Def Jam, where she set up her get label, MonarC Music. In December, she released her ninth album,
Charmbracelet, which failed to suit a success. Although she took nearly triad days for a review, Carey found a arrive at with 2005's chart-topping
The Emancipation of Mimi, her virtually successful book in long time.
Amos Milburn
