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Performer and songwriter Mariah Carey is a mega-platinum award-winning superstar who has been setting and breaking industry records since her career began with five consecutive multi-week #1 Pop/#1 R&B singles in 1990-91. Her total sales of albums, singles and videos to date exceeds 160 million worldwide. Mariah's 10th and most recent studio album, 2005's The Emancipation Of Mimi, is an industry phenomenon - Soundscan's biggest-selling album of the year, with more than 9 million copies sold worldwide. The album generated an all-time career-high of 8 Grammy nominations for Mariah, and won Best Contemporary R&B Album, with "We Belong Together" winning Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song.
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Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. According to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States.[1]
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The best-selling female artist of all time - whose seventeen #1 singles rival all but Elvis Presley and The Beatles - Mariah Carey has made an indelible impact on the global music industry and audiences everywhere. Blessed with a stunning five-octave range and signature vocal abilities, the singularly talented superstar continues to reach new heights of artistic growth and popularity. As a singer and songwriter, she has been recognized with five Grammy Awards, nine American Music Awards, Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" Award and the World Music Award for "World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium," to name but a few honors.
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Mariah Carey has a lot on her mind these days. In an exclusive interview, which airs Monday on Yo on E! as heard on E! Entertainment Radio, XM & Sirius, the Daydream diva dished to host Michael Yo about everything from her faith in God and the possibility of one day having a child to Britney [...]
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Mariah Carey's remarkable vocal range helped her gospel-influenced dance tunes reach the top of the pop charts in the early 1990s. Her hit albums included Mariah Carey (1990), Music Box (1993) and Butterfly (1997). Critics winked at Carey's 1993 marriage to Tommy Mottola, the head of Sony Music and Columbia Records (Carey's label), but her vocal abilities and babe-appeal kept her in good standing with fans and made her a favorite on MTV. (Carey and Mottola were divorced in 1998.) In 2001 Carey left Columbia to sign with EMI's Virgin Records for a reported $100 million; her first Virgin album, Glitter, the soundtrack to her semi-autobiographical 2001 movie, was widely considered a disappointment. In July of 2001 Carey was hospitalized for exhaustion, and the next month her publicists said that Carey was ... receiving psychiatric treatment. The next year she split with EMI, which paid $28 million to buy out the remainder of her contract.
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Mariah Carey and her beau, Luis Miguel, went through some disharmony while making her new record, according to New York's Daily News. The pair had recorded a song titled "After Tonight" for Carey's new album "Rainbow" (out Tuesday), but the News quoted well-placed sources as saying Miguel was so unhappy with the results, he sent the tape back to Canadian producer David Foster -- chopped into little pieces. Foster confirmed to the News that Miguel was unhappy with the finished tune but denied the tape was destroyed, adding, "I don't know if (Luis and Mariah) are still together." "The song was written just for Mariah," Foster told the paper. "I had Luis and Mariah record it several different times, but it never sounded right. So she ended up doing it by herself". Meanwhile, Carey told Gala magazine that "After Tonight" just wasn't in Miguel's key.
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