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".
Mariah Carey recalls heartbreaking racial abuse throughout her childhood
mirror.co.ukMariah Carey suffered from horrific racial abuse growing up. The 50-year-old singer, who's mixed race, recalled a particular incident as a teenager in which she'd been targeted by her own friends in a "violent, premeditated assault." But the bigotry she faced began well before, Mariah explains in new memoir The Meaning Of Mariah Carey.
While she avoided the level of abuse directed at her older siblings, Mariah's earliest recollection of racism was at just four years old.
She'd used a brown crayon to colour in a picture of her father, with teachers "cackling hysterically" and telling her she'd used the wrong shade.
The teachers, she writes, had only met her white mother, and not her black father. And when she was 13 or 14, Mariah was locked
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