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".
Hitmaker of the Month: How Producer Dylan Graham Helped Bring Air and ‘Authenticity’ to Muni Long’s ‘Hrs & Hrs’
variety.comA.D. Amorosi The hit “Hrs & Hrs” takes its time winding its way around Muni Long’s sultry, breathy, subtly repetitious chorus of “I could do this for hours / and hours and hours.” Before she reaches the crepuscular chorus’ climax, Long has rhymed out everything from “giving you your flowers” to “champagne showers” to ordering “shrimp and lobster towers,” not to mention her “superpowers.”Certainly Long knows how to craft a song.
As Priscilla Renea, her given name, she has penned tracks for Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey, among others. Helping her realize “Hrs & Hrs,” and its slow, cool, looped production and slithering beat, was Dylan Graham, who co-produced the mid-tempo R&B track pulled from Long’s 2021 EP, “Public Displays of Affection.” Prior to “Hrs & Hrs,” the Orlando-based, Canada-born Graham — Variety’s Hitmaker of the Month for April 2022 — honed his glassy, breezy sound working with such singer as Summer Walker (“Toxic”) and Jill Scott (with Conway the Machine on “Chanel Pearls”), as well as rappers Wale (“Let It Go”) and Young M.A (“No Love”).In fact, to get to the gossamer, soulful sparkle of “Hrs & Hrs,” and its romantic subtext, Graham had to log miles in rock music.“I started playing guitar at 11, and did the whole metal-grunge band thing similar to, say, Nirvana until I was 15,” says Graham. “I stopped that to produce hip-hop and R&B and never looked back.”Graham was a fan of Timbaland and Dr.
Dre, but found other mixologists to obsess over by digging into Soundcloud and going deep on SoundClick, where studio heads park their best stuff. “You could find so many unheard-of greats there, really talented people such as Epik The Dawn and Tone Jonez,” says Graham.
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