Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1990, she rose to fame with the release of "Vision of Love" from her eponymous debut album. The album produced four chart-topping singles in the US and began what would become a string of commercially successful albums which solidified the singer as Columbia's highest selling act. Carey and Boyz II Men spent a record sixteen weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995-96 with "One Sweet Day", which...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth27 March 1970
CityHuntington, NY
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.
I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.
You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.
I used to play poker with my sister. But I think my low-cut dress put some of the guys off.
Bring me olives and morsels and I'll be happy.
Thank you so much for the warmth and the love,
I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.
We were hanging out. I'm a huge Eddie Murphy fan. Maybe people could just see that, and that's why they made a big drama. But there is nothing going on. That's the last time I saw him.
I don't know that it's actually sunken in yet.
But there is nothing going on. That's the last time I saw him.
I was supposed to be in my trailer getting a touch-up, which I desperately needed, but I had to come out and see Mary, ... I was so proud and happy for her that she was receiving the legend award because she's a true person and real artist.