Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer and songwriter. Named as "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, it is known for its five octane vocal ranges, vocal powers, melodic style, and the use of signatures from whistle lists.
After signing a contract with Columbia Records, he released his debut album, Mariah Carey (1990), which spawned four number one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart: "The Vision of Love" , "Love Take Time", "Someday", and "I Do not Wanna Cry". He followed the success of this chart with the number one "Emotions", from his second album of the same name, making it the first and only artist to have their first five singles number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
After his marriage to Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, Carey became the highest-selling artist with follow-up albums Music Box (1993), Happy Christmas (1994), and Daydream (1995). The albums produced a string of successful singles including the international number "Without You", "All I Want for Christmas Is You" holiday tracks, and "One Sweet Day", which became the longest-ever US number one in history for a total of 16 weeks. After divorcing Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and incorporated more hip-hop elements into his music with the release of Butterfly (1997). Billboard named it the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States, while the World Music Awards honored him as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s.
Carey parted company with Columbia in 2000, and signed a $ 100 million record deal with Virgin Records. In the weeks before the release of his film Glitter and the accompanying soundtrack in 2001, he suffered physical and emotional disturbances and was hospitalized for severe fatigue. This project was not well received and resulted in a general decline in the singer's career. Carey's recording contract was purchased for $ 50 million by Virgin and he signed a multi-million dollar contract with Island Records the following year. After a relatively unsuccessful period, he returned to the top of the music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). The album became the second best-selling album in the world in 2005 and produced "We Belong Together", making it the only artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 Decade-End chart twice. Carey revived his film career with a supporting role at Precious (2009), which earned him the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Throughout his career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making it one of the best-selling music artists of all time. According to the RIAA, she is the third best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums. With the release of "Touch My Body" (2008), Carey reached number 18 in the United States, more than any other solo artist. In 2012, he ranks second on VH1's list of the 100 greatest female artists in music history. In addition to his commercial achievements, Carey has won 5 Grammy Awards, 19 World Music Awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 14 Billboard Music Awards, and has been consistently credited with inspiring a generation of singers.
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Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York. His father, Alfred Roy Carey, is of African American and Afro-Venezuelan descent, while his mother, Patricia (nÃÆ'  © e Hickey), is of Irish descent. Carey's last name was adopted by his grandfather in Venezuela, Francisco NÃÆ'ºÃÆ'  ± ez, after he came to New York. Patricia was an opera singer and an occasional vocal coach before she met Alfred in 1960. When she started earning a living as a flight engineer, the couple married later that year, and moved to a small suburb of New York. After eloping, Patricia's family rejected her for marrying a black man. Carey then explains that when growing up, she feels neglected by her motherly family, which greatly affects her. During the years between the birth of Carey's sister, Alison and herself, the Carey family struggled in the community for their ethnicity. Carey's name comes from the song "They Call the Wind Mary", originally from 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon. When Carey was three years old, her parents divorced.
After their separation, Alison moved with her father, while the other two children, Mariah and Morgan's brother, remained with their mother. Carey will grow apart from his father, and then will stop seeing it altogether. At the age of four, Carey recalls that he started sneaking radio under his covers at night, and just singing and trying to find peace in music. During elementary school, he excelled in lessons he enjoyed, such as music, art, and literature, but found no interest in others. After several years of financial struggle, Patricia earned enough money to move her family to a stable and prosperous sector in New York. Carey had begun writing poems and added melodies to them, thus starting as a singer-songwriter while attending Harborfield Middle School in Greenlawn, New York, where he graduated in 1987. Carey excelled in his music, and showed the use of whistle lists, though only began to master and control it through his training with his mother. Despite introducing her daughter to the classic opera, Patricia never forced her to pursue a career in it, because she never seemed to be interested. Carey recalls that she made her singer-songwriter work as a secret and noted that Patricia "never became a compelling mother." She never said, 'Give more opera feeling.' I respect the opera like crazy, but it does not affect me. "
While in high school, Carey began writing songs with Gavin Christopher. They need an assistant who can play the keyboard: "We call someone and he can not come, so by coincidence we find Ben [Margulies].Ben comes into the studio, and he really can not play the keyboard very well - he really more than a drummer - but after that day, we kept in touch, and we sort of clicked on it as a writer. "Carey and Christopher began writing and composing songs in the basement of his father's shop during Carey's senior year. After composing their first song together, "Here We Go 'Round Again", which Carey described as having Motown vibes, they continue to write material for a full-length demo. He started living in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, which he shared with four other girls. Carey works as a waiter for various restaurants, usually fired after two weeks. While needing work to pay the rent, Carey still has musical ambitions, as he continues to work late into the night with Margulies in the hope of completing the demo. After completing the demo of his song, Carey attempted to give it to the music label, but failed every time. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced to an uphill pop singer, Brenda K. Starr.
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1988-1992: Mariah Carey and Emotions
When Starr's friendship with Carey grew, his interest also helped Carey succeed in the industry. In December 1988, Carey escorted Starr to an executive, where he submitted a demo tape to Columbia Records chief Tommy Mottola, who listened to him on the way home. After the first two songs, he was attracted to her; then, after looking for Carey for two weeks, he immediately signed it and began to map his commercial debut. While he maintained that he wanted to continue working with Margulies, Mottola listed top producers of the time, including Ric Wake, Narada Michael Walden and Rhett Lawrence. Mottola and staff at Columbia have planned to market Carey as their main female pop artist, competing with Whitney Houston and Madonna (signed respectively to Arista and Sire Records). After the completion of her debut album, Mariah Carey , Columbia spent over $ 1 million to promote it. Despite a weak start, the album finally reached the top of Billboard 200, after Carey's 33rd Grammy Awards exposure. Mariah Carey remained on the charts for eleven weeks in a row, and she won Best New Artist, and Best Female Pop Vocal Award for the single "Vision of Love." In addition to "Vision of Love", the album produced Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Love Takes Time", "Someday", and "I Do not Wanna Cry". Carey became the first musical act since The Jackson 5 to have their first four singles reach number one. Mariah Carey finished as the best-selling album in the United States in 1991, while total sales were over 15 million copies.
Carey began recording his second studio album, Emotion , in 1991. He described it as a tribute to Motown soul music, as he felt the need to honor the kind of music that has influenced him as a child. For the project, Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, who had only a small role on his debut, as well as Robert Clivillà © s and David Cole, from the C C Music Factory dance group. Carey's relationship with Margulies worsened because of the personal contract that Carey signed with her before signing a record deal with Columbia, agreeing to split not only royalty songs from songs but also half of her earnings. However, when the time came to write music for Emotion, Sony's officials made it clear that he would only be paid a fair amount given to his co-authors on an album. Margulies then filed a lawsuit against Sony that eventually caused them to split up. Emotions was released on September 17, 1991, and was accepted by critics as a more mature album than its predecessor. Although praised for songwriting, production, and new sounds of Carey, the album was criticized for its material, considered weaker than its debut. Although the album manages sales of more than eight million copies globally, Emotion failed to reach the commercial and critical heights of its predecessor.
After the release of his debut, critics again questioned whether Carey would embark on a world tour to promote his material. Although Carey explained that the stage fright and style of the songs made the tour to be very scary, speculation grew that Carey is "worm studio", and that he was not able to produce the perfect tone and 5 octave vocal range with which he is known. With the hope to rest any claims of himself as an artist who produced, Carey and Walter Afanasieff decided to book an appearance on MTV Unplugged, a television program broadcast by MTV. This show displays the artist's name "unplugged" or stripped of studio equipment. While Carey liked his more compassionate and powerful songs, it was decided that his most popular content would be included. A few days before the recording of the show, Carey and Afanasieff thought about adding a cover version of the older song, to give something different and unexpected. They chose "I'll Be There", a song popularized by The Jackson 5 in 1970. On March 16, 1992, Carey recorded seven sets of lists at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York. The impression was greeted with critical acclaim, which made it aired more than three times more than the average episode. The success was tempted by Sony officials to market it. Sony decided to release it as an EP, with a low price for short. EP proves successful, contrary to criticism and speculation that Carey is just an artist's studio, and was certified triple-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and manages the Gold and Platinum certifications in some European markets.
1993-1996: Music Box and Daydream
During early 1993, Carey began working on his third studio album, Music Box . After Emotions failed to reach commercial heights from his debut album, Carey and Columbia reached an agreement that the next album will contain a more pop-influenced sound to appeal to a wider audience. During the Carey writing session, he started working mostly with Afanasieff, with whom he co-wrote and produced most of the Music Box . On August 31st, the Music Box was released worldwide, debuting at number one on Billboard 200. The album met with mixed acceptance from music critics; while many praised the influence of pop albums and strong content, others felt that Carey made fewer uses of his famous vocal range. Ron Wynn of AllMusic described the different forms of Carey's singing on the album: "It is wise for Carey to present another element of his approach, but sometimes excessive zeal is preferred over lack of passion." The album's second single, "Hero", will eventually become one of Carey's most popular and inspirational songs in her career. This track became Carey's eighth chart chart in the United States, and began to expand Carey's popularity throughout Europe. With the release of the album's third single, Carey reached several career milestones. The cover of Badfinger's "Without You" became his first number one in Germany, Sweden, and England.
Music Box spent a long time on number one on several country album charts, and eventually became one of the best-selling album of all time, with worldwide sales of over 28 million copies. After rejecting the tour for her last two albums, Carey agreed to start a series of short concerts in the United States, entitled Music Box Tour. Just covering six dates across North America, a quick but successful tour was a big step for Carey, who was afraid of the hassle of touring. Following the Music Box , Carey took a relatively large period of time from the public eye, and began working on unknown projects throughout 1994. In October 1994, Billboard announced that Carey would released the year-end holiday album. 1994, Carey recorded a duet with Luther Vandross; a cover of Lionel Richie's "Endless Love" and Diana Ross. The album Carey Merry Christmas was released on November 1, 1994, on the same day as the album's first single, "All I Want for Christmas Is You", was released. The album ended up being the best-selling Christmas album of all time, with global sales reaching over 15 million copies. Once released, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is highly praised, and is considered "one of the few worthy modern additions to holiday canon." Rolling Stone described it as "the holiday standard and ranked fourth in the Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas roster, commercially it became the best-selling holiday ringtone of all time, and the single best-selling by non-Asian artists in Japan , sold more than 2.1 million units (ringtones and digital downloads).At the end of the 1994 holiday season, Carey and Afanasieff have started writing material for their next studio album, which will be released later this year.
Released on October 3, 1995, Daydream combines pop sensitivity Music Box with R & amp; B and hip hop are gloomy. The album's second single, "One Sweet Day" was inspired by the death of David Cole. The song stays on the Hot 100 to hold a 16-week record, becoming the longest number one in history. Daydream became her best-selling album in the United States, and became RIAA's second Diamond certified album, following the Music Box . The album was again a best-seller by international artists in Japan, shipping over 2.2 million copies, and eventually achieved global sales of over 20 million copies. Critically, the album is heralded as the best for Carey at the moment; The New York Times named it one of 1995's best albums, and wrote, "the best cutting brings R & B candy manufacture to the new top of texture improvements [...] The writing of his work has taken a leap forward and becomes more relaxed, sexier and less dependent on the horns clinking. "Carey once again chose to embark on a short world tour titled Daydream World Tour, which has seven dates, three in Japan and four across Europe.When tickets go on sale, Carey makes a record of all 150,000 tickets for his three shows at Japan's biggest stadium, Tokyo Dome, sold out in less than three hours, broke the previous record held by The Rolling Stones.Because of the success of the album, Carey won two awards at the American Music Awards for his solo efforts: Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Soul/R & Female Bond Artist Daydream and his singles were each nominated in six categories at the 38th Grammy Awards.Carey, along with Boyz II Men, opened the show with the appearance of "One Sweet Day". , Carey did not receive any awards, prompting her to comment "What can you do? I will never be disappointed again. After I sat down through the whole event and did not win once, I could handle anything. "In 1995, due to Daydream ' huge Japanese sales, Billboard declared Carey the "Foreign Artist of the Year" in Japan.
1997-2000: A new image and independence, Butterflies , and Rainbow
With subsequent albums, Carey began to take more initiative and control with his music, and began to plant more genres into his work. For Butterfly, she tries to work with producers and writers other than Afanasieff, such as Sean Combs, Kamaal Fareed, Missy Elliott and Jean Claude Oliver and Samuel Barnes of the Trackmasters. During the recording of the album, Carey and Mottola split up, with Carey citing it as a way to achieve freedom, and new opportunities to live. Aside from the different album approaches, the critics noticed the singing style altered by Carey, whom he described as breathing vowels. Her newly invented singing style was greeted with mixed acceptance; some critics feel this is a sign of maturity, that he does not feel the need to always flaunt his reach, while others feel it is a sign of a weakening and fading voice. The album's main single, "Honey", and the accompanying music video, introduces a clearer sexual image than Carey has shown, and continues reports of her freedom from Mottola. Carey believes that his image is not "too far from what I've done in the past [...] It's not like I'm going crazy and thinking I'm going to be a rapper." Personally, this album is about doing whatever hell I want to do. "The reviews for Butterflies are generally positive: Rolling Stone write," It's not as if Carey has actually been shared with his old saccharine, a Houston-style ballad...] but the dominant mood of 'Butterflies' is one of those cold erotic daydreams. "AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Carey's vocals as" sultrier and more controlled than ever, "and heralded the Butterfly as one of his "best notes and illustrates that Carey keeps improving and improving his music, which makes it rare among his 90s." "The album was commercially successful, though not up to the previous album level Let ah Carey , Music Box and Daydream
Carey began developing other projects during the late 1990s. On April 14, 1998, Carey participated in the VH1 Divas charity concert, where he sang with Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan, and Carole King. Carey began developing the All That Glitters movie project, which was then rewritten just Glitter , and wrote songs for other projects, such as Men in Black ( 1997) and How Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). After Glitter fell into developmental hell, Carey postponed the project, and started writing material for the new album. Sony Music executives want it to set up the best hit collection in time for the holiday season. They wanted to release an album that featured the number one single in the United States, and its international top chart in the European version, with no new material, while Carey felt that the compilation album had to reflect his most personal songs, not just his most commercial. The album, titled # 1's (1998), featured a duet with Whitney Houston, "When You Believe", which was included in the soundtrack for The Prince of Egypt (1998)). # 1 became a phenomenon in Japan, selling over a million copies in its opening week, making Carey the only international artist to achieve this achievement. It sold over 3.25 million copies in Japan after just the first three months, and holds the record as a best-selling album by non-Asian artists.
During the spring of 1999, Carey began working on his latest album per record deal with Sony. But due to the awkward pressure and rapport developed by Carey with Sony, he finished the album in three months in the summer of 1999, faster than his other albums. Titled Rainbow (1999), the album finds Carey once again working with new music producers and songwriters, such as Jay-Z and DJ Clue ?. Carey also wrote two ballads with David Foster and Diane Warren, which he used to replace Afanasieff. Rainbow was released on November 2, 1999, to the highest first-week sales of his career at the time, but debuted at number two on Billboard 200. Meanwhile, Carey a troubled relationship with Columbia grew, as they stopped promotions after the first two albums. They feel Rainbow does not have a strong single to be released, while Carey wants to release a ballad. This led to a very public dispute, when Carey began posting messages on his website, notifying fans of information in disputes, and instructing them to ask "Can not Take That (The Mariah's Theme)" on radio stations. The song was finally released but Carey found that the song was only given a very limited and low promotional release, which made it commercially unfeasible. The critically acclaimed Rainbow is generally enthusiastic, with the Sunday Herald saying that the album "sees him staggering impressively between soul ballads and collaboration with heavyweight R & D class B like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Usher [...] This is a polished pop-soul collection. "Despite its commercial success, Rainbow became Carey's lowest selling album at that point in his career.
2001-2004: Personal and professional struggles, Glitter and Charmbracelet
After he received the Artist of the Decade Award and the World Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Millennium, Carey split from Columbia and signed an estimated $ 100 million, five album recording contracts with Virgin Records America (EMI Records) in April 2001. Carey was given full conceptual and creative control over the project. He chose to record an album partially mixed with 1980s-influenced disco and other similar genres, to go along with the movie arrangements. He often states that Columbia considers it a commodity, with his separation from Mottola exacerbating his relationship with label executives. Only a few months later, in July 2001, it was widely reported that Carey suffered a physical and emotional disturbance. He has left a message on his website that complains of overwork, and his three-year relationship with singer Luis Miguel ends. In an interview the following year, he said, "I'm with people who do not really know me and I do not have a personal assistant, I'll do an interview all day and sleep two hours every night, if that." Due to media pressure, heavy work schedules and divisions from Miguel, Carey began posting a series of annoying messages on his official website, and displayed erratic behavior on several direct promotional events. On July 19, 2001, Carey made a surprise appearance on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL) program. When the Carson Daly host began recording after the commercial break, Carey came out pushing the ice cream cart while wearing a large men's shirt, and began striptease, where he took off his shirt to show a tight yellow and green ensemble. When he later revealed that Daly was aware of his presence in the building before his appearance, Carey's appearance on TRL garnered strong media attention. Just a few days later, Carey started posting irregular notes and messages on his official website: "I'm trying to understand things in life now and so I really do not feel that I should be doing music right now. like to do just take a break or at least sleep one night without anyone popping up about a video. All I really want is just being me and that's what I should be doing in the first place.. I'm not saying this much but guess what, I did not take care of myself. "After the quick removal of the message, Berger commented that Carey had" obviously tired and did not think straight "when he posted the letters.
On July 26, he was suddenly hospitalized, citing "extreme fatigue" and "physical and emotional distress." Carey was inaugurated at an undisclosed hospital in Connecticut, and remained hospitalized and under the care of doctors for two weeks, followed by an extended absence from the public. Following the heavy media coverage surrounding Carey's hospitalized bleaching and hospital care, Virgin Records America and 20th Century Fox delayed the release of both Glitter and its soundtrack with the same name. When discussing the weak commercial reactions of the project, Carey blamed both of his frame of mind during the timing of its release, its delay, and the soundtrack that was released on September 11. Critics highlight Glitter , as well as the accompanying soundtrack; both are not commercially successful. The accompanying soundtrack album, Glitter , became Carey's best-selling album at the time. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch dismisses it as "an absolute chaos that will come down as an annoying nuisance to a career that, though not necessarily critically heralded, is at least almost consistently successful." After the negative cloud covering Carey's personal life at the time, as well as poor project acceptance, a $ 100 million five-album recording contract with Virgin Records America (EMI Records) was purchased for $ 50 million. Soon afterward, Carey flew to Capri, Italy for a period of five months, where he began writing material for his new album, deriving from all the personal experiences he had experienced over the past year. Carey later said that his time on Virgin was "a complete and total stress-fest [...] I made a thorough decision based on money and I never made a decision based on money." I learned a great lesson from that. "Later that year, he signed a contract with Island Records, valued at over $ 24 million, and launched the MonarC record label. To add emotional burden to Carey, her father, who had little contact with him since childhood, died of cancer that year.
In 2002, Carey was cast in an independent film, WiseGirls, with Mira Sorvino and Melora Walters, who served as waitresses at a mafia-operated restaurant. It aired at the Sundance Film Festival, and received generally negative critical responses, although Carey's portrayal of the characters was praised; Roger Friedman of Fox News referred to him as "a Ritter Thelma for the new millennium," and wrote, "The shipping lines were sharp and he managed to get the right laugh." Later that year, Carey performed the American anthem for a warm welcome at Super Bowl XXXVI at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Towards the end of 2002, Carey released her next studio album Charmbracelet , which she said marked "a new life opportunity" for her. Despite being released behind Glitter and Carey's return to the music scene, sales of Charmbracelet were moderate and Carey's vocal quality was under criticism. Joan Anderson of The Boston Globe stated the album was "the worst in her career, and revealed a voice that was no longer able to either gravity-heavy gymnastics or soft coos," while AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine expressed the same sentiments and writes, "What's bigger trouble is Mariah's voice being shot, sounding ragged throughout the recording, she can no longer coo or a soft whiny or she can do vocal races against her weight."
In April 2003, Carey announced he would be touring at the end of the year. The Charmbracelet World Tour: An Intimate Night with Mariah Carey, spanning North America and East Asia for three months, generally playing in smaller venues than the arena. Across the United States, the show is done in theaters, and something more influenced by Broadway, "It's so much more intimate that you'll feel like you have experience, you have an evening with me." However, while smaller productions were ordered across the United States, Carey performed at stadiums in Asia and Europe, performing for a crowd of over 35,000 in Manila, 50,000 in Malaysia, and over 70,000 people in China. In the United Kingdom, it became Carey's first tour to show performances outside London, booking arena stops in Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester. The Charmbracelet World Tour: An Intimate Night with Mariah Carey garnered positive reviews from music critics and concert goers, with many praising the quality of Carey's live vocals, as well as overall production.
2005-2007: Resurrection with Emancipation Mimi
Throughout 2004, Carey focused on making the material for his tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). The album found Carey working primarily with Jermaine Dupri, as well as Bryan-Michael Cox, Manuel Seal, The Neptunes and Kanye West. The album debuted on top of the charts in several countries, and was received warmly by critics. Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian defines it as "cool, focused and urban [...] some of Mariah Carey's first songs in a few years that I do not have to pay to listen again," while USA Today ' Elysa Gardner wrote, "Ballad and midtempo figures that truly reflect the renewed belief of the singer birds who have taken his shot and continue flying." The album's second single, "We Belong Together", became the "redefine career" song for Carey, as many critics thought his career ended. Music critics are heralded as "back to shape," as well as "The Voice's return," while many feel it will revive faith in Carey's potential as a balladeer. "We Belong Together" broke several records in the United States and became Charty Carey's sixth rank on Billboard Hot 100. After staying number one for fourteen weeks in a row, the song became the longest the second number one song in US graphic history, behind Carey 1996 collaboration with Boyz II Men, "One Sweet Day". Billboard enrolled it as the "decade song" and the ninth most popular song of all time. In addition to the success of his chart, the song broke several recordings played, and according to Nielsen BDS, gathered both a day's audience and a week in history.
During the week of September 25, 2005, Carey set another record, becoming the first woman to occupy the first two places on Hot 100, as "We Belong Together" remained at number one, and the next single, "Shake It Off" moved to second place ( Ashanti topped the list in 2002 when she became the "flagship" singer in the number two single). On the Billboard Hot 100 year-end Chart 2005, the song was announced as the number one song, Carey's first career. Billboard listed the ninth "We Belong Together" on The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs and was declared the most popular song of the decade of the 2000s by Billboard The Emancipation of Mimi , as well as R & amp; V Best Female Performance and Song R & amp; B Best for "We Belong Together". Emancipation Mimi was the best-selling album in the United States in 2005, with nearly five million units sold. This is the first album by a solo female artist to be the best-selling album of the year since Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill in 1996. At the end of 2005, IFPI reported that The Emancipation of Mimi has sold over 7.7 million copies globally, and is the second best-selling album of the year after Coldplay X & amp; Y . This is the world's best selling album by solo artists and women. To date, Emancipation of Mimi has sold over 12 million copies worldwide. At the 48th Grammy Awards, Carey performed the medley "We Belong Together" and "Fly Like a Bird".
To support the album, Carey embarked on his first three-year tour, named The Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour, after the music book "Carey-centric fan's". The tour stretches forty stops, with thirty-two in the United States and Canada, two in Africa, and six in Japan. It received a warm reaction from music critics and concert audiences, many of whom celebrated the quality of Carey's live vocals, as well as the show as a whole. Carey plays for about 60,000 fans at two shows in Tunis. The Adventures of Mimi DVD was released in November 2007 internationally and December 2007 in the US.
2008 -2009: E = MCÃ,² , Memoirs of the Infinite Angel , and Valuable
In the spring of 2007, Carey began working on his eleventh studio album, E = MCÃ,² , in a private villa in Anguilla. Although E = MCÃ, is well received by most critics, some criticize it because it is very similar to the formula used in The Emancipation of Mimi . Two weeks before the release of the album, "Touch My Body", the lead single of the recording, reached the top spot on Billboard Hot 100, becoming Carey's number eighteen and making it the solo artist with the most number of singles in US history, pushing past Elvis Presley into second place according to the magazine's revised methodology. Carey is second only to The Beatles, which has twenty number one singles. In addition, it gave Carey a 79th week on Hot 100, tying it up with Presley as the artist with the most weeks at number one in Billboard's history chart. "
E = MCÃ,² debuted at number one on Billboard 200 with 463,000 copies sold, selling the biggest opening week of her career. In 2008, Carey also played as a would-be singer named Krystal in Tennessee and had a cameo appearance in the Adam Sandler movie You Do not Mess with the Zohan , playing alone. Since the album's release, Carey has planned to embark on an extensive tour to support E = MCÃ,² . But the tour was suddenly canceled in early December 2008. Carey later stated that she was pregnant during that period, and suffered a miscarriage, so she canceled the tour. On January 20, 2009, Carey performed "Heroes" in the Inauguration Ball Environment after Barack Obama was sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States. On July 7, 2009, Carey - along with Trey Lorenz - performed his Jackson 5 song "I'll Be There" at Michael Jackson's funeral.
In 2009, he appeared as a social worker at Precious, a film adaptation of the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film mostly contains positive reviews from critics, as well as for Carey's appearance. Variety describes her acting as "pitch-perfect." In January 2010, Carey won a Breakthrough Actress Award for her role in Precious at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. On September 25, 2009, Carey's twelve studio album, Memoirs of Imperfect Angel, was released. Receptions for albums are mostly mixed; Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "his most exciting album in a decade," while Jon Caramanica of The New York Times criticized Carey's vocal performance, denouncing him too often using softer vocal registers at the expense of his registers down and up is stronger. Commercially, the album debuted at number three on Billboard 200, and became the studio album with the lowest sales of her career. The album's main single, "Obsessed", debuted at number eleven and peaked at number seven on the charts, and became the 27th highest in the US, tying it with Elton John and Janet Jackson as the fifth most hit. The album's follow-up single, cover from Foreigner "I Wanna To Know What Love Is", broke the record played in Brazil. The song spent 27 weeks on Hot Air Brazil 100 Hot, making it the longest song played in the history of the chart.
On December 31, 2009, Carey embarked on his seventh concert tour, the Angels Advocate Tour, which visited the United States and Canada and ended on September 26, 2010. A planned remix album of Memoirs of an Incomparable Angels ; titled Angels Advocate is scheduled for release March 30, 2010, but was eventually canceled.
2010-2014: Merry Christmas II , American Idol , and Me. I Am Mariah... The Chanteuse Elusive
After the cancellation of Angels Advocate, it was announced that Carey would return to the studio to begin work on his thirteenth studio album. He later revealed that it would be his second Christmas album, and a follow-up to Merry Christmas . Old collaborators for the project include Jermaine Dupri, JohntÃÆ'¡ Austin, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Randy Jackson, as well as new collaborators such as Marc Shaiman. The release date for the album, entitled Merry Christmas II You , is November 2, 2010; The track list includes six new songs as well as a remix of "All I Want for Christmas Is You". Merry Christmas II debuted at number four on Billboard 200 with sales of 56,000 copies, becoming Carey's 16th album in the United States. The album debuted at number one on the Album chart R & amp; B/Hip-Hop, making it only the second Christmas album to top this chart.
In May 2010, Carey quit his planned appearance at For Colored Girls , a movie adaptation of the drama. For Colored Girls Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, citing medical reasons. In February 2011, Carey announced that he had officially started writing new material for the upcoming fourteenth studio album. Carey recorded a duet with Tony Bennett for his Duys II album, entitled "When Do The Bells Ring For Me?" In October 2011, Carey announced that she re-recorded "All I Want for Christmas Is You" with Justin Bieber as a duet for her Christmas album, Under the Mistletoe . In November 2011, Carey was included in the remix to the mixtape single "Warning" by Uncle Murda; The remix also features 50 Cent and Young Jeezy. That same month, Carey released a duet with John Legend titled "When Christmas Comes", originally part of Merry Christmas II You .
On March 1, 2012, Carey appeared at the Gotham Hall of New York City; first time performing since pregnancy. He also performed three songs set on a special fundraiser for US President Barack Obama held at the Plaza Hotel New York. A new song titled "Bring It On Home", which Carey wrote specifically for the event to show his support behind Obama's reelection campaign, was also conducted. In August 2012, he released a stand-alone single, "Triumphant (Get 'Em)", featuring American rapper Rick Ross and Meek Mill and co-written and produced jointly by Carey, Jermaine Dupri, and Bryan-Michael Cox. Carey joins the twelve-year seasonal assessment panel American Idol in place of Jennifer Lopez, joining Randy Jackson, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban. In November 2013, he explained about hating to work at American Idol adding, "It's like going to work every day in hell with Satan," referring to his quarrel with Minaj. Carey appeared in the 2013 movie Lee Daniels 'The Butler', about a White House waitress serving eight American presidents for three decades. Carey has guest starred as a redneck character in the adult animated series American Dad! on November 24, 2013.
In February 2013 Carey recorded and released a song called "Almost Home", for the soundtrack of Walt Disney Studios' movie Oz Ozy Great and Powerful . The video was directed by photographer David LaChapelle. News began to emerge about the fourteenth studio album of the singer. Some of the people Carey worked with on the album included: DJ Clue, Randy Jackson, Q-Tip, R. Kelly, David Morales, Loris Holland, Stevie J, James Fauntleroy II, Ray Angry, Afanasieff, Dupri, Bryan- Michael Cox, James "Big Jim" Wright, Hit-Boy, The-Dream, Da Brat, and Rodney Jerkins. Carey tells Billboard: It's about making sure I have a lot of good music, because at the end of the day that's the most important thing... There are more raw ballads than people expect.....there are also uptempo and the kinds of signatures that represent different sides of [I] as an artist. "
The main single, "Beautiful" featuring singer Miguel, was released on May 6, 2013, and peaked at number 15 on Hot 100. Carey recorded the show "Beautiful" along with his biggest medley hits on May 15, 2013.; recordings aired on American Idol ends the next day. On October 14, 2013, Carey announced that the previous album title track had been selected as the second single; it was aired through Facebook on November 11, 2013. During the Q & A session after the song release, Carey gave an update about the album, stating: "Now I'm inspired to add two more songs, so we're almost till I can not even express this correctly but I feel it will be my favorite album. "After releasing another song," You're Mine (Eternal) ", it was announced that The Art of Letting Go will no longer be the album title. After the last name was announced, me. I Am Mariah... The Chanteuse Elusive was released on May 27, 2014.
In October 2014, Carey announced All I Want For Christmas Is You, A Night of Joy & amp; Celebration, annual residency show at Beacon Theater in New York City. The first leg includes six shows, running from 15-22 December 2014. Carey announces the second leg in October 2015. The second leg ran for 8 shows, from 8-18 December 2015.
2015-present: The residency show, A Christmas Melody , and Mariah World
On January 15, 2015, Carey announced his residency at Wisma The One at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. On January 30, it was announced that Carey had left Def Jam Universal Music Group Recordings to reunite with L.A. Reid and Sony Music via Epic Records.
Coinciding with the residency, Carey released # 1 to Infinity , a greatest hits compilation album containing all eighteen Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, along with a new recording, "Infinity" which was released as a single on April 27th. By 2015 Carey has her directorial debut for the Hallmark Channel Christmas A Christmas Melody, where she also appears as one of the main characters. Filming for the project takes place during October 2015. In December 2015, Carey announced a 27-date Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour that began in March 2016, marking the first time the singer has toured significantly in mainland Europe in 13 years. Four stops including performances in South Africa. The tour grossed 30.3 million dollars.
On March 15, 2016, Carey announced that she was filming Mariah World, a documentary series for E! a network documenting the Sweet Sweet Fantasy Europe tour and wedding planning process. Carey told The New York Times: "I think it would be a good opportunity for kind, like, to show my personality and who I am, even though I feel like a true fan. I have an idea of ​​who I am. Many people misconceptions about this and that. "The series airs on December 4, 2016. Carey guest starred in the musical drama Empire as a superstar singer named Kitty and sang Infamous song featuring Jussie Smollett. On December 5, 2016, Carey participated in the VH1 Divas Ã,: Vacation: Unhelpful Night charity concert, along with Vanessa Williams, Chaka Khan, Patti Labelle, and Teyana Taylor.
On December 31, 2016, Carey's performance on Clark Clark's New Year's Rockin 'Eve Dick Clark got worldwide attention after technical difficulties caused Carey's in-ear monitor to suffer damage, resulting in what The New York Times is referred to as the "performance train crash." The singer cited his inability to hear music without earshot feedback as the cause of the accident. Carey and Dick Clark Productions representatives blame each other.
On February 3, 2017, Carey released the single "I Do not" featuring YG. On February 8, 2017, he voiced the Mayor of Gotham City, in the animated film The Lego Batman Movie. In April 2017, it was announced that Carey launched his own record label, Butterfly MC Records, a joint partnership with Epic Records. In July 2017, Carey made a cameo in the Girls Trip comedy film, starring Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Regina Hall. That same month, Carey started the tour with Lionel Richie, entitled, All the Hits Tour. Carey is featured in an official remix for Montana's "Unforgettable" French single, alongside Swae Lee. In October 2017, Carey released a new single soundtrack, "The Star", for the movie of the same name. Carey also developed an animated Christmas film, titled Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You, whose soundtrack he recorded the original song named "Lil 'Snowman." The film was released live-to-video on November 14, 2017. That same month, the singer continued the All I Want for Christmas Is You, a Night of Joy and Festivity concert series, which for the first time visited other countries including English and French. The singer will also tour Oceania in 2018 with her The Number Ones Tour.
Carey is set for co-executive products along with Brett Ratner's drama script about his life for Starz. The show will focus on Carey's early awakening to fame as a young teenager in New York City.
Philanthropy and other activities
Carey is a philanthropist who has been involved with several charitable organizations. He became associated with the Fresh Air Fund in the early 1990s, and was one of the founders of a camp located in Fishkill, New York, which enabled the inner teenagers to embrace art and introduce them to career opportunities. The camp was called Camp Mariah "for his generous support and dedication to the children of Fresh Air," and he received the Horizon Congressional Award for charity work related to youth. Carey also donated royalties from his hit "Hero" and "One Sweet Day" to charity. He was nationally renowned for his work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation in granting children's wishes with life-threatening illnesses, and in November 2006 he was awarded the Wish Idol Foundation for "his extraordinary generosity and many accomplishments." Carey has volunteers for the New York City Police Athletic League and contributes to the obstetrics department at New York's Cornell Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital. The percentage of MTV Unplugged sales is donated to various other charities. In 2008, Carey was named the Famine Ambassador of the World Famine Relief Movement. In February 2010, the song, "100%", originally written and recorded for the movie, Valuable , was used as one of the theme songs for the 2010 Winter Olympics, with all proceeds going to Team USA.
One of the most high profile concert performances in the field of beauty was at VH1's 1998 Live Divas Live show, where she performed with other female singers to support the Save the Music Foundation. The concert was a successful ranking, and Carey participated in Divas 2000 specials. In 2007, the Save the Music Foundation honored Carey on their tenth gala for his support of the foundation from the start. He appeared on national America: A Tribute to Heroes nationally broadcast on fundraising events after the September 11 attacks, and in December 2001 he appeared in front of the peacekeeping forces in Kosovo. Carey hosted a special television CBS At Home for the Holidays , which documents the real-life stories of foster children and adoptive families. In 2005, Carey appeared for Live 8 in London and on Hurricane Katrina's "Shelter from the Storm" phone call. In August 2008, Carey and other singers recorded the charity single, "Just Stand Up" produced by Babyface and L. A. Reid, to support Stand Up to Cancer. In 2008, Carey appeared in a New Year's Eve concert for Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's family, something he later claimed "felt very bad and ashamed to participate." In March 2011, Carey Cindi Berger's representative stated that the royalties for the song "Save The Day", written for the fourteenth studio album, will be donated to a charity that creates awareness for human rights issues to make up for Gadaffi's mistakes. Berger also said that "Mariah has and continues to donate her time, money and many hours of personal service to many organizations both here and abroad."
Rejecting an offer to appear in ads in the United States during the beginning of his career, Carey did not engage in brand marketing initiatives until 2006, when he participated in support for Intel Centrino personal computers and launched jewelry and accessories lines for teens, Glamorization, American Claire Shop and Icing. During this period, as part of a partnership with Pepsi and Motorola, Carey recorded and promoted a series of exclusive ringtones, including "Time of Your Life". She signed a licensing agreement with cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden, and in 2007, she released her own perfume, "M." The Elizabeth Arden deal has earned $ 150 million. In 2007, Forbes crowned him as the fifth richest woman in the entertainment world, with an estimated net worth of US $ 270 million. In November 2011, it was reported that Carey's net worth was worth more than $ 500 million. On November 29, 2010, he made his debut collection on HSN, which included jewelry, shoes, and fragrances. In November 2011, Carey was announced as a new global ambassador to Jenny Craig, following her weight loss program after giving birth to fraternal twins in April. Carey claims he lost  £ 70 (32 kg) on ​​the program. In 2013, human rights activists criticized Carey for appearing in concert for Angola's "father-son kleptocracy" and accusing him of receiving "dictatorial money".
Arts
Influences
Carey said that since childhood she has been influenced by Billie Holiday, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and R & B and soul musicians like Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Aretha Franklin. His music contained strong influences from gospel music, and he praised The Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar and Edwin Hawkins as the most influential in the early years. When Carey puts hip hop into his voice, there is speculation that he's trying to capitalize on the popularity of the genre, but he told Newsweek , "People do not understand I grow with this music." He has expressed appreciation for rappers such as The Sugarhill Gang, Eric B. & Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan, The Notorious B.I.G. and Mobb Deep, with which he collaborated in the single "The Roof (Back in Time)" (1998). Carey was heavily influenced by Minnie Riperton, and began experimenting with whistle registers because of his original practice of reach.
During Carey's career, her vocal style and music, along with her success rate, have been compared to Whitney Houston, whom she also calls influences, and Celine Dion. Carey and his friends, according to Garry Mulholland, are "princess laments [...] a virtuoso vocalist that combines a chart-oriented song with a mature Torch song." Author and writer Lucy O'Brien attributes the return of Barbra Streisand to "old-fashioned girl" to Carey and Dion, and describes them and Houston as "groomed, dampened and exaggerated for perfection." Carey's musical transition and the use of more open clothing during the late 1990s, in part, began to distance himself from this image, and he later said that most of his initial work was "schmaltzy MOR." Some have noted that unlike Houston and Dion, Carey co-authored and produced his own songs.
Music style
Love is the subject of most of Carey's lyrics, although he has written on themes such as racism, social alienation, death, world hunger, and spirituality. She has said that most of her work is partly autobiographical, but Time magazine writes: "If only Mariah Carey's music had drama of her life, her songs were often sweet and artificial - the soul of NutraSweet, but her life had passion and conflict , "applying it at the first stage of his career. He commented that as his album grew, so did songwriting and music evolved into more mature and meaningful material. Jim Faber of the New York Daily News made the same comment, "For Carey, voicing all about performance, not inspiring emotions Singing, for him, represents a physical challenge instead of emotional unburdening." While reviewing < i> The Music Box , Stephen Holden from Rolling Stone commented that Carey sang with "a sustained spirit," while Arion Berger of Entertainment Weekly wrote that for some moments vocal, Carey became "too overwhelmed to include her passion into words." In 2001, The Village Voice wrote about what they consider to be a "ballad centerless "Carey, writes," Carey Strawberry Shortcake's soul still provides a template with teen-pop cutie drawing arches around the centerless [Diane] Warren ballads [.....] this is largely due to [Blige] that the new R & amp; B demands greater emotional expression ranges, smarter poems, more than-the-gut that testifies, and less an unnecessary record of the Mariah-era creak-clean and just creaking.At present is Christina Aguileras and Jessica Simpsons are awkward oversing, while the ladies with lung strength lifted the roof keep on check when tune or lyric demands. "
Carey Output uses electronic instruments such as drum machines, keyboards and synthesizers. Many of his songs contain piano melodies, because he was given piano lessons when he was six years old. Carey said that he could not read sheet music and preferred to collaborate with a pianist while compiling the material, but found it easier to experiment with faster melodies and chord progressions using this technique. While Carey learned to play the piano at a young age, and incorporated several ranges of production and instrumentation into his music, he maintained that his voice had always been his most important asset: "My voice is my instrument, always the same." Carey began assigning his material remixes early in his career and helped pioneer the practice of recording new vocals for remixes. Disc jockey David Morales has teamed up with Carey on several occasions, starting with "Dreamlover" (1993), which popularized the tradition of remixing R & B songs into the home record, and the Slant's magazine named one of the greatest dance songs of all time. From "Fantasy" (1995) onwards, Carey asked the hip-hop and home producers to rearrange their album compositions. Entertainment Weekly included two remixes of "Fantasy" on Carey's biggest record list collected in 2005: remix of the National Dance Music winner produced by Morales, and Sean Combs production featuring rapper Ol 'Dirty Bastard. The latter has been credited with popularizing the trend of R & amp; B/hip-hop that continued into the 2000s, through artists like Ashanti and Beyonce. Combs said that Carey "knows the importance of the mix, so you feel like you are with an artist who appreciates your work - an artist who wants to come up with something with you." Sound and timbre
Carey has a five octave vocal range, and has the ability to achieve notes beyond 7 octaves. Called as "songbird supreme" by Guinness World Records, she was ranked first in MTV 2003 and Blender countdown magazine of 22 Greatest Voices in Music, voted by fans and readers in an online poll. Carey said of the poll, "What really matters is the voice of the MTV generation.Of course, this is a great compliment, but I do not feel that way about myself." She is also second in the list of The 100 Outstanding Pop Vocalists magazine in Cove magazine.
Regarding the type of voice, Carey said that he is an alto, although some critics describe it as soprano Coloratura. The singer claims that she has a nodule on her vocal cords since childhood, therefore she can sing in a list higher than others. However, tiredness and lack of sleep can affect her vocals due to nodules, and Carey explains that she does a lot of practice to keep her balance during singing.
Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the lower listing of Carey as "rich, husky alto" extending to "dog high whistle notes". In addition, towards the end of the 1990s, Carey began to incorporate vowels that vibrated into his material. Tim Levell of BBC News describes his vocals as "breaths very close to the mic," while USA Today Elysa Gardner wrote "it is impossible to resist impacting his vocal style, resonant riffs and shard, has been in today's pop and R & amp; B stars. "
Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker added his timbre of various colors, saying, "Carey's voice changes with almost every line, mutating from a steel tone to a tingle and then coo. The wide range of vowels allows Carey to take the melody from alto down notes to coloratura soprano upper register. "Carey also has a" whispering list ". In an interview with the singer, Ron Givens of Entertainment Weekly described it this way: "first, a vibrant and loving ooh came easily from his throat: alto Then, after a quick breath, he went for the stratosphere, with a voice that almost changed the air pressure in the room.In one short movement, he seemed to scream and roar at the same time. "
His pitch was admired and Jon Pareles added "he can linger in sensual bends, growl with confidence, sink
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