STATS:
Real Name:
Mariah Carey
Occupation:
female singer
Birthday:
March 27,1970
Birth Place:
Long Island.usa
Sign:
don't know....
Contact Address:
Mariah Carey
c/o Mariah Carey Fan Club
P.O. Box 679
Branford, CT 06405
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why i love her:Just look at this babe c'mon she rulz....someday i'd love to meet her....mariah forever!!!love!!!!!!!!!
Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1970 near Long Island, NY, to Alfred and
Patricia Carey. She has both an older brother and sister, Morgan and Alison
respectively. When she was around three years old, her parents divorced due in
part to racial prejudice against them (Alfred is Venezualen and African-American,
Patricia is Irish). She subsequently was raised by her mother, a voice coach and
opera singer, and was forced to move often because of difficult finances. It was
also around the time she was three that she began to sing, often singing to her
brother's radio or to spite her parents.
Mariah attended Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, NY, where she claims
she was not much of a student. During this time, she sang for her brother's band
and recorded her first demo in a studio her friend worked for. Because they were
borrowing the studio, they were forced to record into the early hours of the
morning. As a result Mariah often missed school, bringing her the nickname
"Mirage". Just days after graduating from high school, Mariah moved to New York
City with a friend, where they shared a mattress on the floor of a dingy apartment.
During her time in the city, Mariah worked a variety of odd jobs to support herself,
including hat/coat-checking, hostessing, and sweeping hair salons. Before long, she
won a job singing backup for pop star Brenda K. Starr, which eventually became
her road to success. At a party with Starr in the late eighties, Mariah met with
record execs and attempted to give one her demo. Instead it was snatched up by
Tommy Mottola of then CBS Records. He listened to it in the limo and shortly after
signed her to his label.
Since then, Mariah has had a whirlwind success, including number one hits,
platinum albums, Grammy awards, and anything else you can imagine. In the
coming year she will embark on a world tour and release a new album, and will no
doubt further her success far into the coming millenium.
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Mariah Carey's Links
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Some quotes from her
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They
don't know me."
"I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I
am."
"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think
that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."
"I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since I was in like 7th or 8th grade
when she used to be popular."
"If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I've
been through."
"There's never been anything else in my life that inspired me at all. It's crazy, but
I've always loved music and I've always known this was what I wanted to do. I
can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a singer."
"I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And
coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in
anywhere."(on growing up)
"The truth is that you can't make people go into a store and buy an album, the
music has to do that... The success I am having is because of the people relating to
my music."(on her marriage)
"People all of a sudden just see me and hear me having hit records and it seems to
have come out of the blue. But really I have been working towards this my whole
life, and this is what I say when people say I haven't paid my dues."
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