Mariah Carey

1993, a series of hit songs establish its position as a Columbia artist with the highest sales. According to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artists in the 1990s in the United States.

Mariah Carey (born in New York, March 27, 1970) is a singer, writer and songwriter, producer and occasional actress from the United States. He made his debut recording in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first musician to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. After her marriage to Mottola in Carey has sold over 200 million albums, singles and videos around the world. He was named best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the World Music Awards in 2000. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, he is the third best-selling female artist and sixteenth overall recording artist with sales of more than 62.5 million albums in the United States. He is also ranked as the best selling female artist of the U.S. Nielsen SoundScan era (third best-selling artist overall). He has the most number one singles for a solo artist in the United States (eighteen; second artist overall behind The Beatles). In 2008, Billboard magazine sort Carey at number six on "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top 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 from nearly 40 nominations he received (the second largest category after Aretha Fraklin women), and the famous vocal range, vocal strength, as well as the melismatic style of singing that has berhsail he popularized, whistle register and use techniques (range of heights above the human voice falsetto).

   

Childhood and adolescence (1970-1989)

 

    

Mariah Carey was born with the name Angela Mariah Carey on March 27, 1970 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, United States. She is the youngest of three brothers from the Alfred Roy Carey and Patricia Carey. At the age of three years, his parents divorced and his mother Mariah follow. Since then Mariah is almost never met his father, until 2002, was reunited (where his father also died of cancer that year).

    Mariah's mother was an opera singer and taught Mariah singing since the age of three years. Since then Mariah put her interest in singing, vocal training by imitating the whistle register singer Minnie Riperton and a background of Brenda K. Starr after moving to New York City.

    In a party, 1988, Mariah met executives at Columbia Records, Tommy Mottola. Brenda K. Starr gave Mariah's demo tape. After the party ended, Tommy listened to the tape and was very happy with the sound Mariah. Tommy went back to the location of the party, but Mariah has left the place. However, Tommy managed to sign him to sing on the record company.
Domestic success (1990-1992)

    Mariah wrote songs for her debut album Mariah Carey, mostly he wrote it with Ben Margulies. But Mariah and Ben Margulies is not allowed to produce his songs, and they feel the album is too 'polished' as Tommy priority to commercial interests and make a similar debut album Whitney Houston (where also criticized similar to the debut album Whitney, Whitney Houston). Tommy and the record producer also told Mariah to write songs more mellow and consequently only a few songs written by Mariah with Ben Margulies appeared on his debut album.

    Released in 1990, Mariah Carey was originally sold in low numbers but soon topped the Billboard 200 album charts for a total of 11 weeks. Mariah Carey threw four number one singles in the United States, the influential debut "Vision of Love", the ballad "Love Takes Time," pop with influences jack swing "Someday", and the slow hours of pop / R & B ballad "I Do not Want to Cry ". From the single-single, Mariah does not like the single "I Do not Want to Cry" because the feud with the producer of the song, Narada Michael Walden, and tried to sing it as seldom-rare. This album makes Mariah won 2 Grammy, "Best Newcomer" and "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "Vision of Love". However the success of Mariah outside is very limited.

    Within only one year, Mariah released her second album, Emotions (1991), which spawned the hit singles "Emotions", which also topped the Billboard charts in 1991. This makes Mariah as a singer first in the United States who has her first five singles topped the Billboard Hot 100. On this album, Mariah allowed to produce all the songs, and he worked with Walter Afanasieff and C + C Music Factory. Although music critics are so highly critical of the Emotions, most of them feel high sound Mariah is false, but because the result of studio effects, especially on the song "Emotions" itself.

    Exhausted from critics doubted her voice, Mariah finally appeared on MTV Unplugged in 1992. Critics who initially doubted the high-pitched voice, came to believe that the high tone is produced Mariah is genuine. In the event, Mariah sang a song of the Jacksons 5, "I'll Be There" with background singers, Trey Lorenz.
Vocal profile
* Voice Type: Dramatic Coloratura Soprano
* High Tone: G # 7 (on direct viewing of "Emotions" at the MTV VMAs 1991), F7 ("All in Your Mind")
* Tone Low: A2 ("My All (Remix)"), G # 2 (Kiss FM radio interview in 2008)
* Voice Range: 5 + octaves (F2-G # 7)
* Long Breath: 20 seconds ("Lead The Way")
* Tone Highest in Sound original (not falseto): G # 5 ("I Only Wanted", "loverboy", "There's Got to Be a Way"), A5 ("Circles," "Fly Like A Bird"), C6 D6 ("Subtel Inviattion")
* High falsetto tones: C6 ("Bringin 'On The Heartbreak)", D6 ("Migrate", "I Still Believe")