The Emancipation of Mimi (Mariah Carey)

Mariah Carey was born March 27, 1970, on Long Island, New York. Mariah was the third of three children born to Patricia Hickey and Alfred Roy Carey. Mariah's heritage is a mix of races. Her mother is Irish and her father African-American and Venezuelan. Her parents divorced when she was just three. Even at this tender age, was certain she wanted to be like Mom.
The career of Mariah Carey is a succession of records. Her first five singles all reached the first place in the Billboard Hot 100. she is the only artist who has a Number 1 hit in every year of the '90s and She has the record of the longest Number 1 hit in the history of the modern Billboard Mariah has spent more weeks at the top than the Beatles.
Emboldened by her new sequence of Number 1 singles, Mariah laid the foundations for something the world had long been waiting for - her first real tour. Sadly for those based far and wide, it would be a short, six-city affair in November 1993, and anyone who stopped to think about buying a ticket would have been out of luck. Her hometown concert at New York's Madison Square Garden sold out in less than an hour
Mariah's growing popularity as a worldwide star led to requests for more concerts. Mariah chose to once again kick off her current round of concert tours with a series of concerts in (Asia)Japan, Australia, and (the Caribbean Islands)Hawaii and went into active rehearsal for the tour shortly before Christmas
After receiving Billboard's Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music Award for Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium Carey parted from Columbia and signed a contract worth a reported US$80 million with EMI's Virgin Records
With her separation from Mottola Columbia executive exacerbating her relations with label executives. In July 2001, it was widely reported that Carey had suffered a physical and emotional breakdown Just a few months later. She had left messages on her website complaining of being overworked
By the month's end, she had checked into a hospital, and her publicist announced that Carey was taking a break from public appearances.
Carey's tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), contained contributions from producers such as The Neptune’s, Kanye West and Carey's longtime collaborator, Jermaine Dupri. Emancipation of Mimi became 2005's best-selling album in the U.S.,
Mariah Carey and the very handsome actor-rapper Nick Cannon met in 2005 at the Teen Choice Awards ceremony in Hollywood, CA. They developed a friendship and a bond best known to their fans. Nick informed Mariah that he specifically requested that he present her with the Billboard award later in the year for the multi-platinum CD the Emancipation of Mimi. The association culminated in their very surprising and very secretive wedding at Mariah's home in the Bahamas.
During Carey's career, her vocal and musical style, along with her level of success, has been compared to Whitney Houston and Celine Dion.
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RAPHAEL MACHARIA
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