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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
|name             = Mariah Carey <!-- Mariah has stated that she has NO middle name -->
|image            = Mariah Carey 2 by David Shankbone.jpg
|caption          = Carey at the 2008 [[Tribeca Film Festival]]
|background       = solo_singer
|birth_name       =
|birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1969|03|27}}
|birth_place      = {{nowrap|[[Huntington, New York]], United States}}
|genre            = [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]], [[pop music|pop]], [[hip hop music|hip hop]], [[soul music|soul]], [[dance music|dance]]
|years_active     = 1988–present
|associated_acts  =
|occupation       = Singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, philanthropist
|instrument       = Vocals, piano
|label            = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], [[Virgin Records|Virgin]], [[Island Records|Island]] 
|website          = {{URL|mariahcarey.com}}<br />[[File:Mariah's signature.png|120px]]<br />Mariah Carey's autograph <!-- Autograph is more appropriate than signature. -->
}}

'''Mariah Carey'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mariahcarey.com/news/32701 |title=News |publisher=Mariah Carey |date= |accessdate=2012-01-02 |archive-date=2012-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306123855/http://mariahcarey.com/news/32701 |dead-url=yes }}</ref> (ojoibiborn March 27, 1969)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031119/1969-04-10/ed-1/seq-15/|title=Recent Births Are Announced|newspaper=[[Long Islander News|The Long-Islander]]|location=Huntington, New York|date=April 10, 1969|page=2{{hyphen}}3|access-date=February 16, 2021|quote=Recent births at Huntington Hospital have been announced as follows{{nbsp}}... March 27 Mariah, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Carey, Huntington|via=NYS Historic Newspapers|archivedate=March 3, 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303103838/https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031119/1969-04-10/ed-1/seq-15/|deadurl=yes}}</ref> je akorin, olukowe-orin, atokun awo-orin ati osere ara Amerika. O bere koko gbe awo-orin jade ni 1990 labe itona oga ile-ise [[Columbia Records]] [[Tommy Mottola]], o si gbe [[studio album|àwo-orin inu studio]] akoko pelu oruko re jade, [[Mariah Carey (album)|''Mariah Carey'']]. Awo-orin na di oniplatinum pupo o si gbe orin singles nomba kinni merin jade, ni ori tsart Amerika [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records, including ''[[Emotions (Mariah Carey album)|Emotions]]'' (1991), ''[[Music Box (Mariah Carey album)|Music Box]]'' (1993) and ''[[Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album)|Merry Christmas]]'' (1994), established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. [[Daydream (Mariah Carey album)|''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 [[List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones|longest-running number-one song in US chart history]]. During the recording of the album, Carey began to deviate from her R&B and pop beginnings, and slowly traversed into hip hop. After her separation from Mottola, this musical change was evident with the release of [[Butterfly (Mariah Carey album)|''Butterfly'']] (1997).

Carey left Columbia in 2000, and signed a record-breaking $100&nbsp;million recording contract with [[Virgin Records]]. Carey ventured into film with [[Glitter (film)|''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]]" became her most successful single of the 2000s, and was later named "Song of the Decade" by [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]. Carey once again ventured into film, and starred in ''[[Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire]]'' (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 [[Black Reel Awards of 2010|Black Reel]] and [[NAACP Image Award]] nominations.

In a career spanning over two decades, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the [[List of best-selling music artists|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]], she is the third [[List of best-selling music artists in the United States|best-selling female artist]] in the United States, with 63.5&nbsp;million [[RIAA certification|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. In 2012, Carey was ranked second on [[VH1]]'s list of the "100 Greatest Women in Music". Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Carey has won five [[Grammy Award]]s, 17 World Music Awards, 11 [[American Music Award]]s, and 31 [[Billboard Music Award]]s. Referred to as the "songbird supreme" by the ''[[Guinness World Records]]'', she is famed for her five-octave [[vocal range]], [[belt (music)|power]], [[melisma]]tic style and signature use of the [[whistle register]].

==Biography==

===1969–87: Early life and struggles===
Mariah Carey was born in [[Huntington, New York]], on March 27, 1969.<ref name="nick1">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=8}}</ref> Her father, Alfred Roy, was of [[African American]] and [[Venezuelan people|Venezuelan]] (including Afro-Venezuelan) descent, while her mother, Patricia (née Hickey), is of [[Irish American|Irish]] descent.<ref name="nick2">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=7}}</ref> Patricia's father had died while she was young; however, she inherited his passion for music.<ref name="nick2"/> She developed a career as an occasional opera singer and vocal coach, and met Alfred in 1960.<ref name="nick1"/> As he began earning a living as an aeronautical engineer, the couple wed later that year, and moved into a small suburb in New York.<ref name="nick2"/> After the pair's elopement, Patricia's family disowned her, due to marrying a man of color. Carey later explained that growing up, she felt a notion of neglect from her maternal family, a mark that affected her greatly: "So later I was like, 'Well, where does this leave me? Am I a bad person?' You know. It's still not that common to be a multi-racial person, but I'm happy with the combination of things that I am."<ref name="nick2"/> During the interval of years in between Carey's older sister Allison and the singer's birth, the Carey family experienced personal struggles within the community due to their ethnicity.<ref name="nick2"/> Carey's name was derived from the song "[[They Call the Wind Mariah]]", originally from the 1951 Broadway musical ''[[Paint Your Wagon (musical)|Paint Your Wagon]].''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/10883/Mariah-Carey|title=Mariah Carey Biography|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|accessdate=2011-08-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/mariah_carey|title=Celebrity Central: Top 25 Celebrities: Mariah Carey|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|publisher=[[Time Warner]]|accessdate=2011-08-14}}</ref> When Carey was three years old, her parents divorced due to the increasingly strenuous nature of their marriage.<ref name="nick3">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=9}}</ref>

{{Quote box|width=300px|align=left|quote="It's been difficult for me, moving around so much, having to grow up by myself... my parents divorced. And I always felt kind of different from everybody else in my neighborhoods. I was a different person ethnically. And sometimes, that can be a problem. If you look a certain way, everybody goes 'White girl', and I'd go, 'No, that's not what I am'."|source=—Carey, on the difficulty of her childhood<ref name="nick6">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=14}}</ref>
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After their separation, Allison moved in with her father, while the other two children remained with their mother.<ref name="nick3"/> As the years passed, Carey would grow apart from her father, and would later stop seeing him altogether.<ref name="nick3"/><ref name="nick4">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=10–11}}</ref> By the age of four, Carey recalled that she had begun to sneak the radio under her covers at night, and just sing from her heart, and try and find peace within the music.<ref name="nick4"/> During elementary school, she would excel in subjects that she enjoyed, such as literature, art and music, while not finding interest in other subjects.<ref name="nick5">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=13}}</ref> After several years of financial struggling, Patricia earned enough money to move her family into a stable and more affluent sector in New York.<ref name="nick5"/> Carey had begun writing poems and adding melodies to them, thus starting as a [[singer-songwriter]] while attending [[Harborfields High School]] in Greenlawn, New York.<ref name="nick7">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=16}}</ref><ref name="nick7"/> Even from a young age, Carey excelled in her music, and demonstrated usage of the [[whistle register]], though only beginning to master and control it through her training with her mother.<ref name="nick7"/> Though opening her daughter to the world of classical opera, Patricia never pressured Carey to pursue a career in that type of genre, as she never seemed interested in that world of music.<ref name="nick7"/> Carey recalled that she kept her singer-songwriter works a secret and noted that Patricia had "never been a pushy mom. She never said, 'Give it more of an operatic feel'. I respect opera like crazy, but it didn't influence me."<ref name="nick7"/><ref name="nick8">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=17}}</ref>

While a high school student, Carey developed a relationship with Gavin Christopher, with whom she shared musical aspirations. The song-writing duo needed an assistant who could play the [[Musical keyboard|keyboard]]: "We called someone and he couldn't come, so by accident we stumbled upon [[Ben Margulies|Ben]] [Margulies]. Ben came to the studio, and he really couldn't play the keyboards very well - he was really more of a drummer - but after that day, we kept in touch, and we sort of clicked as writers."<ref name="nick8"/> Carey and Christopher began writing and composing songs in his father's store basement during Carey's senior year. After composing their first song together, "Here We Go Round Again", which Carey described as having a [[Motown]]-vibe, they continued writing material for a full length demo.<ref name="nick9">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=18}}</ref> Following her graduation from high school, Carey's mother remarried, which ultimately prompted her to move out from their apartment. She began living in a one bedroom studio in Manhattan, which she shared with four other female students.<ref name="nick10">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=19}}</ref><ref name="nick11">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=20}}</ref> During this time, Carey worked as a waitress for various restaurants, usually getting fired after two week intervals.<ref name="nick12">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=21}}</ref> While requiring work to pay for her rent, Carey's mind and effort still remained with her musical ambitions, as she continued working late into the night with Margulies, in hopes of completing a demo take that could be passed on to [[Music executive|record executives]].<ref name="nick12"/> After completing her four song demo tape, Carey attempted to pass it to music labels, but was met with failure each time.<ref name="nick13">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=22}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, she was introduced to rising [[Pop music|pop]] singer [[Brenda K. Starr]].<ref name="nick13"/><ref name="nick14">{{harvnb|Nickson|1998|pp=61}}</ref>

==Àyàwò àwo-orin==
*''[[Mariah Carey (album)|Mariah Carey]]'' (1990)
*''[[Emotions (Mariah Carey album)|Emotions]]'' (1991)
*''[[Music Box (Mariah Carey album)|Music Box]]'' (1993)
*''[[Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album)|Merry Christmas]]'' (1994)
*''[[Daydream (Mariah Carey album)|Daydream]]'' (1995)
*''[[Butterfly (Mariah Carey album)|Butterfly]]'' (1997)
*''[[Rainbow (Mariah Carey album)|Rainbow]]'' (1999)
*''[[Glitter (soundtrack)|Glitter]]'' (2001)
*''[[Charmbracelet]]'' (2002)
*''[[The Emancipation of Mimi]]'' (2005)
*''[[E=MC² (Mariah Carey album)|E=MC²]]'' (2008)
*''[[Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel]]'' (2009)
*''[[Merry Christmas II You]]'' (2010)

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