Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey (born in New York, March 27, 1970, age 42 years) is a singer, writer and songwriter, record producer, and actress from the United States. He makes recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first musician who has five first single peak U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. After her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established its position as Columbia Records artist with the highest sales. According to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful singers in the 1990s in the United States.
Carey has sold over 200 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. He was named the best-selling female singer millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards, and the best artist of the 1990s decade on the Billboard Music Awards in 1999. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the third best-selling female singer with sales of more than 63 million albums in the United States. He is also ranked as the best-selling female singer of the U.S. Nielsen SoundScan era. He has the most number one singles for a solo singer in the United States (eighteen singles; artist second overall behind The Beatles). In 2008, Billboard magazine sort Carey at number six on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists", making Carey the second most successful female artist after Madonna in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In addition to her commercial accomplishments, Carey has earned five Grammy Awards, and the famous vocal range, vocal power, and style of melisma, and the use of techniques of whistle register (the highest range of the human voice above falsetto).

biography


Childhood and youth (1970-1989)
Mariah Carey Mariah Carey was born with the name on March 27, 1970 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, United States. He was the youngest of three children of Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of Afro-Venezuelan descent, and Patricia Carey, an opera singer of Irish descent. Saudarana named Morgan Carey and Alison Carey. During his stay in Huntington, Mariah and her family are subjected to severe racist neighbors. These neighbors allegedly poisoned their dog and set fire to their car. At the age of three years old, his parents divorced and his mother Mariah follow. Since then Mariah almost never met his father, reunited until 2002 (where his father also died of cancer that year). After the divorce, Mariah's mother had worked at several jobs to support the family. He, too, who taught Mariah singing since the age of three years old when Mariah starts mimicking her mother practicing Verdi opera, Rigoletto in Italian.
Mariah attended Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York. School friends nicknamed "Mirage" because he was often absent because sambilannya work as a demo singer in several local recording studio. After graduation, Mariah moved to New York City, New York. He later became a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr, a singer from Puerto Rico Freestyle flow.
In a party, 1988, Mariah met Columbia Records executive at the time, Tommy Mottola. Brenda gave Mariah a demo tape. After the party ended, Tommy listened to the tape and was very interested in the sound of Mariah. Tommy went back to the location of the party, but Mariah has left. However, Tommy managed to sign him to sing at the record company. For the public, this story seems similar to the story of Cinderella.


Domestic success (1990-1992)
Mariah wrote the songs for his debut album Mariah Carey, mostly he wrote with Ben Margulies. But Mariah and Ben Margulies are not allowed to produce the songs. This has led to disappointment for Mariah. By Tommy, even this album is too similar to the debut of Whitney Houston (where also criticized similar to the debut album Whitney, Whitney Houston) for commercial kepentigan alone. Tommy and record producer also told Mariah a more mellow songwriting is less according to what is actually desired by Mariah. However this album upon its release in 1990, a success in America. Singles like "Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time", "Someday" and "I Do not Wanna Cry" made number one on Billboard. This album makes Mariah won 2 Grammy Awards, "Best Newcomer" and "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "Vision of Love". Vision of Love was dubbed the "Magna Carta of Melisma" because this song became the first song that popularized the technique of playing the tone called "Melisma" to the world of music R & B [6]. Even singer Beyonce and Christina Aguilera are very inspired by this song. Mellisma ala Mariah Carey became popular and imitated from the stars of R & B as it is to American Idol contestants.
Mariah released her second album, Emotions (1991), which spawned the hit single "Emotions", which also topped the Billboard charts in 1991. On this album Mariah allowed for producing all the songs, and he worked with Walter Afanasieff and C + C Music Factory. Nevertheless music critic critical of Emotions, most of them are high noise Mariah is false, but because the effect of the studio, especially on the song "Emotions" itself. Exhausted from critics doubting his voice, Mariah finally appeared on MTV Unplugged in 1992. Critics who initially doubted the high voice, finally believing that high note Mariah generated is original. In the event, Mariah sang a song from The Jacksons 5, "I'll Be There" as a background singer, Trey Lorenz. Mariah issued a compilation album MTV Unplugged EP (1992) and the single "I'll Be There" made it to number one on Billboard.

Success abroad (1993-1996)
Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola eventually married in 1993. In the same year, titled third album Music Box, which involves musicians Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds was released and became the most successful album overseas. Two singelnya, namely "Dreamlover" and "Hero" reached number one on Billboard in the United States and the single "Without You" which is a cover of Badfinger singles number one in the UK and many countries in the world. Billboard magazine gave a very positive comment to this album, while Rolling Stone commented that some of the songs in this album still has a lot of influence from some songs Whitney Houston. Mariah organized tour titled Music Box Tour.
In 1994, Mariah released a Christmas album titled Merry Christmas. This album is one of the most successful Christmas albums of all time. The single "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is very popular in America, especially the end of each year. The single was also popular in many countries, especially Japan.
In 1995, Mariah released their next album titled Daydream with influences of R & B and Hip Hop stronger. The first single titled "Fantasy" ranked number one in the Billboard and made Carey the first female singer who has a debut single in the first position (second overall after Michael Jackson with the single You Are Not Alone) [7]. A remix of this single featuring rapper Ol 'Dirty Bastard, was for the first time in the world where the song bermelodi combined with rap and Mariah Carey became the first to introduce innovations. Innovation is then give a very big change in the development of R & B and Hip hop forever. Many singers like Beyonce, Ashanti, Usher, Jay Z, P Diddy, Missy Elliot, and others were inspired and influenced from such innovation. Single "One Sweet Day" with Boyz II Men sang to number one on Billboard and became the longest song in the history of Billboard number one at 16 weeks [8], making it the most successful single for Mariah and Boyz II Men as well as a song that his second debut in the first position. Single "Always Be My Baby" also ranked number one on Billboard. The album became the most successful album in the United States. Album title is further strengthening its public as a diva like Whitney Houston and Celine Dion. Mariah also organized a tour titled Daydream World Tour.
The style and appearance of the new (1997-2000)
Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola divorced in 1997. Mariah admitted unhappy and depressed because they do not have the freedom of her husband's fat is too powerful and the press during their marriage. After that Mariah released their next album entitled Butterfly. In this album, Mariah feel freer in music and worked especially after his divorce that executives. So the freedom that he acquired, the first single titled "Honey" featuring the lyrics are more sexy and erotic than previous albums. In this single video clip, Mariah looking sexy and seductive. However, many magazines are responding positively to changes in the way the singing, composing a song, and a fresh appearance. This album mengasilkan two singles that ranked first, ie "Honey" (which is also the third single which debuted at number one) and "My All". The album was successful but not as successful as the previous album. Mariah conducting a tour titled Butterfly World Tour. During the production of this album, Mariah Carey had a relationship with New York Yankees baseball player named Derek Jater. Then ended in 1998.
In 1998, a compilation album titled # 1s released. This album contains the singles number one in the United States and some new singles like "When You Believe" by Whitney Houston duet which is the soundtrack to the film The Prince of Egypt. Duet of the top two diva has won awards from the Academy Award. This album is also the most successful foreign album in Japan.
In 1999, the next album was released under the title Rainbow involving Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The songs in this album has elements of R & B and Hip hop stronger especially since Mariah Carey collaboration singers such as Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, Da Brat, and Usher. In addition, he also collaborated with Joe, 98 Degrees, and Westlife. Single "Heartbreaker" and "Thank God I Found You" ranked number one on Billboard, but unfortunately "Cry Baby" / "Can not Take That Away" became the first single Mariah is not a top 20. This album was also not as successful as previous albums. Mariah blames label companies in this regard. Mariah also recognize that there are powerful people who deliberately tried to ruin his career. Nevertheless Mariah Carey still awarded Billboard's Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music Award for Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium on the glorious achievements of his early career in the early 90s until well into the new decade. Mariah organized tour titled Rainbow World Tour.
In 2000, Mariah released a compilation EP titled Valentines to welcome Valentine's Day.

Tough times (2001-2004)
In 2001, Mariah Carey out of the Columbia Records and later signed a contract with Virgin Records. Percerainnya with Tommy Mottola apparently contributed to the poor relationship with Columbia. A few months later, Mariah suffered physical and emotional consequences overworked. Besides dating relationship that had DI leaders going with Latin singer Luis Miguel, broke. Mariah immediately checked himself into the hospital and had to take a break from public appearances.
In the same year, Mariah released their next album which is titled Glitter Glitter soundtrack. The film has been repeatedly postponed penanyangannya makes Mariah Carey in the starring role. The film was finally released to coincide with the tragedy of 11 September 2001 attacks proved unsuccessful in the market and get negative criticism from various parties, mainly due to the poor quality of acting Mariah Carey. Previously he also played in the movie The Bachelor. The first single on the album Glitter entitled "Loverboy" was quite successful but subsequent singles failed commercially and even failed to enter the charts. So the album failed like the movie Glitter. In the same year, a compilation album titled Greatest Hits was released. This album contains singles Mariah Carey during its heyday-before the era of Glitter. King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and invite other singers sang many humanitarian single "What More Can I Give" and "Todo Para Ti" in Spanish.

Mariah Carey had suffered many losses. Finally, in 2002 he was abandoned by Virgin Records. But then he signed a contract with Island Records. In the same year, Mariah returned to play a movie with Mira Sorvino and Melora Walters in the film WiseGirls. Many critics say that the quality of acting Mariah start to get better. In the same year, along with Island Records, Mariah Carey released the album Charmbracelet. Sales of the album is better than the album "Glitter", but still quite mediocre and unsatisfactory. Besides being the songs, the sound quality Mariah also received a lot of negative criticism from various parties. However, Mariah still conducting a tour entitled Charmbracelet World Tour. This time Jakarta, Indonesia became one of his goals. Concert took place at the Jakarta Convention Center in Senayan, Central Jakarta on February 15, 2004 [9]. In 2003, The Remixes album release. This album contains songs that have been remixed.
Mariah then bet in a movie produced by Damon Dash is Death of a Dynasty (2003) and State Property (2005).

Return success (2005-2008)

In 2005, Mariah Carey released the album The Emancipation of Mimi who collaborated with musicians such as Jermaine Dupri, Kanye West, and The Neptunes. This album turned out to be successful in the market and became one of the most successful album in the history of his career. The album also became the most successful album in 2005, bringing back the days glory Mariah.


Mariah Carey at the release party of the album The Emancipation of Mimi.
Given positive criticisms from various parties. The single "We Belong Together" and "Do not Forget About Us" number one on Billboard. "We Belong Together" became one singles as a solo sung the longest in the history of Billboard position one is 14 weeks [10]. Even in a week when "We Belong Together" is in position one, the single "Shake It Off" at the same time in the second position. Mariah received the Grammy Award for "Album Best Contemporary R & B", "R & B Vocal Performance Best Female", "Best R & B Song" for "We Belong Together". The tour, entitled The Adventures of Mimi became the most successful tour throughout his career.
In 2007, Mariah Carey released the next album titled E = MC ². Album name is taken from the formula of special relativity theory of Albert Einstein. However, the title of the album has nothing to do with physics. "E = MC ²" here means "Emancipation of Mimi to the second power". The album was a hit and became the most successful selling album in the first release mingu Mariah entire career. Single "Touch My Body" reached number one on Billboard. With so Mariah now has 18 singles that were once ranked 1. Mariah eventually became a singer with the amount of number 1 singles in America and the second most solo singer with most number 1 singles. Mariah is in position between the Beatles and Elvis Presley on below. Single "Bye Bye" is very popular in Indonesia and became the most played song on radio stations in Jakarta at the time. Mariah became the second most successful female singer after Madonna. Despite so many critics who say that the album is too similar to the previous album.


Mariah Carey at the Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Tennessee.
In 2008, Mariah Carey married to an actor, comedian, rapper, and America's Got Talent presenter, Nick Cannon who was 11 years younger than Mariah. They were married in the Bahamas. In the same year, Mariah played in the movie You Do not Mess With Zohan. Mariah Carey along with Mary J. Blige, Beyonce, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield, Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Ashanti, Ciara, Keyshia Cole, and Nicole Scherzinger sang charity single "Just Stand Up!" program to fight cancer charity. Mariah played in the movie Tennessee, and he was widely praised for the quality of his acting is getting better

Starred in and released the follow-up album (2009-2010)
In 2009, Mariah Carey appeared singing the song "Hero" at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black president in the United States on January 4. On July 8 of that same year, Mariah Carey and Trey Lorenz perform sing "I'll Be There" at the funeral of the legendary Michael Jackson in Los Angeles. Mariah plays Precious in the film adaptation of Sapphire's novel Push works. In the film, Mariah plays a social worker who look very simple, in contrast to the appearance of Mariah usual. This film is one of the most successful films in 2009 and received an award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival. Mariah himself received several awards for her acting in the film. Mariah released a compilation album The Ballads that contains a collection of songs ballads. The album was re-released with the title LoveSongs.

In the same year, Mariah Carey released the album Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel. Despite receiving a lot of positive criticism, this album was not as successful as the previous two albums. Single "Obsessed" is a single statement that was made to attack the rapper Eminem, who admitted that he once dated Mariah. Mariah denies this statement by claiming that he was never close to Eminem, but there is absolutely no relationship dating or romance. Eminem song "Bagpipes from Baghdad" by Eminem made to subjugate Mariah and Nick Cannon. Having returned by Mariah in "Obsessed", Eminem responded by re-issuing the song "The Warning". The single "I Want To Know What Love Is" is not very successful in the United States, but a record in Brazil where the singles chart is the first position for 27 weeks [11]. Mariah organized tour titled Angels Advocate Tour in the United States and Canada.
In 2010, Mariah Carey released her single "100%" for the soundtrack of the AT & T Team USA for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Mariah never announced it will release a remix album for the songs in "Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel". This album Angels Advocate named. Apparently this album was canceled. Instead, Mariah Carey released a second Christmas album titled Merry Christmas II You. The album was a hit with singelnya "Oh Santa!". In this album Mariah also collaborated with own mother, Patricia Carey, on the single "O Come All Ye Faithful". In the same year a compilation album Playlist: The Very Best of Mariah Carey released. This album contains songs Mariah personal favorite both singles and non-singles.

The birth of the child and judging (2011-present)
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon finally has a pair of twins named Moroccan Scott Cannon (male) and Monroe Cannon (women) who was born on 30 April 2011, coinciding with the anniversary of their wedding the third.
On July 23, 2012, Mariah Carey confirmed that she will be a judge talent show American Idol Season 12  which began airing on January 16, 2013 with longtime friend Randy Jackson, homage to country musician Keith Urban and rapper Nicki Minaj. He registered himself as a talent judge the highest paid with a nominal U.S. $ 18 million per year  On July 26, 2012, Mariah Carey also announced that he had been involved in the film "The Butler" director Lee Daniels that tell about the lives of waitress at the White House with senior actor Robin Williams and renowned host Oprah Winfrey 
Mariah Carey released a new single entitled Triumphant (Get 'Em) on August 2, 2012. Unfortunately, the single is not very popular, not even able to penetrate the Billboard Hot 100 Chart United States. But singles are able to be single to-16 for Mariah who was ranked at the top of Hot Dance Club Songs Chart . On 7 November 2012, Mariah publish the song "Bring It On Home" via his twitter account that were previously sung by Mariah at campaign fundraiser for Barack Obama were re-elected to the presidential election in 2012. The publication itself is done to show Mariah excitement over Obama's re-election as President of the United States a few hours after the election results were announced.


Talent and musical works

Since childhood, Mariah Carey musicians terinispirasi of R & B and Soul like Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Gladys Knight, Whitney Houston, Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin. The music is also quite influenced by Gospel music and Gospel favorite musicians such as The Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar and Edwin Hawkins. Mariah admits that she also grew up with Hip-hop and rappers favorite rappers such as The Sugarhill Gang, Eric B. & Rakim, the Wu-Tang Clan, The Notorious B.I.G. and Mobb Deep.

Musikalitasnya vocal quality and, along with its popularity, making Mariah Carey is often equated with the diva-diva like Whitney Houston and Celine Dion. But unlike Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, Mariah Carey writes his songs from his early career to the present. Even from her 18 number one singles, single I'll Be There simply are not written.
Mariah Carey is famous for his vocal range and incredible strength. The range to reach his vocal tone G # 2-G # 7 or 5 octaves. He was able to use this technique to reach the whistle register high notes. Singer Minnie Riperton is inspiration in the use of such techniques. Interestingly, the type of voice is actually a low alto. Therefore, Mariah Carey can master a very low tone to high tone. The uniqueness of Mariah Carey's voice is a rare talent. MTV and Blender magazine in the "22 Best Sound in Music" by the poll, placing first in the sequence singer Mariah with the best sound. His ability to play tones in tenik melisma often praised by music critics apart from wetness colors hoarseness unique and melodious.
Mariah wrote songs mostly about love. He also wrote a song about racism, discrimination, social isolation, death, global famine, freedom in life, zest for life, and religion. Mariah typically use electronic instruments such as drum machines, keyboards and synthesizers. He also often include piano music. Stevie Wonder is his favorite singer and pianist.
Mariah often did remix the songs to rhyme dance. In this he teamed up with DJs such as David Morales. Merging music R & B and Hip hop does also become a very popular trend.




Influence in the music world
Vocal style and musicality Mariah had a great influence in the world of popular music and contemporary. Mariah is the first widely popularized game tone called melisma technique in the development of R & B music with his debut "Vision of Love". Since then, a lot of singers who imitate this technique ranging from best to worst. Beyonce admits that he first wanted to be a singer ever since hearing "Vision of Love". Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Nelly Furtado, Kelly Clarkson, Kelly Rowland, Melody Thorton, Britney Spears, Anastacia, Jessica Simpson, Mya, and many female singers who terinispirasi of Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey was also the first person who created and popularized the combination of R & B and Hip hop. This phenomenon has changed the development of R & B and Hip Hop and has become a standard. Many singers R & B and Hip hop like Beyonce, Ashanti, Missy Elliott, and Jay Z's collaboration in the use of their songs. Christina Aguilera has the vocal and musical styles are very similar to Mariah Carey is indeed the biggest inspiration in music. Japanese singer, Utada Hikaru also very terinispirasi of Mariah Carey. Some female singers from Indonesia are also many who were inspired by Mariah Carey.