Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, and signature use of the whistle register.
She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the U.S. Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks. Soon after, Carey became the only artist ever to have their first five singles reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Vision of Love" to "Emotions".
Black Barbie paved the way for Hollywood’s hottest celebrity dolls
nypost.comdolled up, thanks to this pretty, plastic plaything. Black Barbie stormed onto the toy scene as the “dynamite” antithesis to her Malibu sun-kissed, pink-obsessed predecessor, Barbie, in 1980.
With richly brown skin and a cutely curly coif, the African-American doll not only became the first figurine of color to bear the blond’s buzzy name, but the unsung heroine also kicked open the door for black powerhouses to be forever immortalized in her haute image. “I remember when I got the message that Mattel had called and said, ‘We’d like to make Shonda a Barbie — would she like to be made into a Barbie?’” says Rhimes in the Netflix documentary “Black Barbie,” out Wednesday. “I was like, ‘Absolutely!,” recalls the renowned screenwriter. “It felt magical.”The mastermind behind hit series such as “Bridgerton” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” Rhimes, 54, serves as executive producer of the doc, which examines Barbie’s indelible impact on identity, imagination and beauty norms in small children.
But it’s nothing like Greta Gerwig’s ballyhooed “Barbie” movie, starring Margot Robbie as the featured fashionista out to quash toxic masculinity.
Instead, filmmaker Lagueria Davis details Black Barbie’s 44-year reign as a symbol of representation and inclusion for the young and young at heart. “I was, like, ‘Wow, I can be a part of this thing that is iconic to me in a different way — because black women are a part of it now,’” says ballerina Misty Copeland, 41.
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