Mariah Carey was born on March 27th 1970 in New York, US. Since 1988 she has been one of the premier voices of her generation, her brand of R&B inflected pop and five octave vocal range making her one of the biggest selling musicians of all time.
When one thinks of Mariah Carey, they usually think of her as the music world's alpha diva. It’s a reputation that isn’t entirely unjustified, there is so much more to her than outlandish demands and one hell of a voice.
The Long Island native signed her first record contract in 1988, signing to Columbia Records in 1988 by handing her demo tape to the head of the label at a party, who listened to the tape on his way home from the party, but became so enamoured with her voice that he immediately returned there to find that she’d left.
Needless to say, he found her soon after and the rest is history. Albums like “Music Box” and “Daydream” colonised the 90’s, and saw Carey working with everyone from Luther Vandross, to Boys II Men and even Wu-Tang Clan mentalist Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
While her commercial clout may have withered slightly at the turn of the century, 2005’s “The Emancipation of Mimi” showed that she had staying power with authority, to the tune of 12 million copies sold by 2008.
No more words need to be said about her astonishing voice, one that made no lesser authority than Stevie Wonder rate her in the same league as Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston. However, Mariah Carey is, and always has been, the real deal, and there’s no better time to realize that than right here and right now.
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