Mariah Carey Biography
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Mariah Carey took full creative control over her image and
music following her separation from Mottola in 1997, and
introduced elements of hip hop into her album material. Her
popularity was in decline when she left Columbia in 2001, and
she was dropped by Virgin Records the following year after a
highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown and the poor
reception of Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. Carey
later signed with Island/Def Jam, and after an unsuccessful
period, she returned to the forefront of popular music in 2005.
In 2000 the World Music Awards named Carey the best-selling
female artist of all time, and she has recorded the most U.S.
number-one singles for a female artist. In addition to her
commercial accomplishments, she is well-known for her melismatic
singing voice which has been noted for its range, power (see
vocal belting) and technical ability. However, some critics have
said that Carey's efforts to showcase her vocal talents have
been at the expense of communicating true emotion through song.
Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She
is the third and youngest child of Patricia Hickey, a former
opera singer and voice coach of Irish American extraction, and
Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of Afro-Venezuelan
descent. As a multiethnic family, the Careys endured racial
slurs, hostility, and sometimes violence, causing the family to
frequently relocate throughout the New York and Rhode Island
areas. The strain on the family led to the divorce of Carey's
parents when she was three years old.
Mariah Carey had little contact with her father, and her mother
worked several jobs to support the family. Spending much of her
time at home alone, she turned to music as an outlet. She began
singing at around the age of three, performing for the first
time in public during elementary school, and was writing her own
songs by junior high. Carey graduated from Harborfields High
School in Greenlawn, New York, although she was frequently
absent due to her popularity as a demo singer for local
recording studios. Her renown within the Long Island music scene
gave her opportunities to work with musicians such as Gavin
Christopher and Ben Margulies, with whom she co-wrote material
for her demo tape. After moving to New York City, Carey worked
numerous part-time jobs to pay the rent and completed five
hundred hours of beauty school. Eventually, she became a backup
singer for Brenda K. Starr.
In 1988 Mariah met Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola at a
party, where Starr gave him Carey's demo tape. Mottola played
the tape while leaving the party and was very impressed with
what he heard. He returned to find Carey, but she had left.
Nevertheless, Mottola tracked her down and signed her to a
recording contract. This Cinderella-like story became part of
the standard publicity surrounding Carey's entrance into the
industry.
Mariah Carey co-wrote all of the original compositions on her
1990 debut album Mariah Carey and continued to co-write nearly
all of her material for the rest of her career. She expressed
dissatisfaction with the contributions of producers such as Ric
Wake and Rhett Lawrence, whom executives at Columbia had
enlisted to help make the album commercially viable. With
substantial promotion it ascended to number one on the U.S.
Billboard 200 chart, where it remained for several weeks. It
produced four number-one singles and made Carey a star in the
United States, but its success elsewhere was limited. Critics
rated the album highly, and Carey won Grammy Awards for "Best
New Artist" and "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" (for her
debut single "Vision of Love").
Emotions, Carey's second album, was conceived as an homage to
Motown soul music (see Motown Sound) and saw Carey working with
Walter Afanasieff and the dance group C&C Music Factory. It was
released soon after her debut album in the fall of 1991, but was
neither critically nor commercially as successful; Rolling Stone
described it as "more of the same, with less interesting
material ... pop-psych love songs played with airless,
intimidating expertise". The title track "Emotions" made Carey
the only recording act to have their first five singles reach
number-one on the U.S. Hot 100 chart, though the album's
follow-up singles failed to match this feat. Carey had been
lobbying to produce her own songs, and beginning with Emotions,
she would co-produce most of her material. "I didn't want
"Emotions" to be somebody else's vision of me," she said.
"There's more of me on this album." She began writing and
producing for other artists, such as Penny Ford and Daryl Hall,
within the coming year.
Although Mariah Carey had occasionally performed live, stage
fright had prevented Carey from embarking on any major tours.
Her first widely-seen concert appearance was on the television
show MTV Unplugged in 1992, and she said she felt that her
performance proved her vocal abilities were not, as some had
previously speculated, simulated using studio techniques. In
addition to acoustic versions of some of her earlier songs,
Carey premiered a cover of The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" with
back-up singer Trey Lorenz. Released as a single, the duet
reached number one in the U.S. and led to a record deal for
Lorenz, whose debut album Carey produced. Because of strong
ratings for the Unplugged television special, the concert's set
list was released on the EP MTV Unplugged, which Entertainment
Weekly called "the strongest, most genuinely musical record she
has ever made ... Did this live performance help her take her
first steps toward growing up?"
Mariah Carey and Tommy Mottola had become romantically involved
during the making of her debut album, and in June 1993 they were
married.
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds consulted on the album Music Box,
which was released later that year and became Carey's most
successful worldwide. It yielded her first UK number-one, a
cover of Badfinger's "Without You", as well as the U.S.
number-ones "Dreamlover" and "Hero". Billboard magazine
proclaimed it as "heart-piercing ... easily the most elemental
of Carey's releases, her vocal eurythmics in natural sync with
the songs", but TIME magazine lamented Carey's attempt at a
mellower work: "Music Box seems perfunctory and almost
passionless ... Carey could be a pop-soul great; instead she has
once again settled for Salieri-like mediocrity." A subsequent
U.S. tour was slated by most critics. Carey said, "As soon as
you have a big success, a lot of people don't like that. There's
nothing I can do about it. All I can do is make music I believe
in."
Following a successful duet with
Luther Vandross
on a cover of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross' "Endless Love" in
late 1994, Carey released the holiday album Merry Christmas. It
contained both cover material and original compositions such as
"All I Want for Christmas Is You", which became Carey's first
Japanese number-one and in subsequent years emerged as one of
her most perennially popular songs on U.S. radio. Critical
reception of Merry Christmas was mixed, with All Music Guide
dismissing it as an "otherwise vanilla set... pretensions to
high opera on 'O Holy Night' and a horrid danceclub take on 'Joy
to the World'". The album drew greater approval from the public,
and it became the most successful Christmas album of all time.
In 1995 Mariah Carey released Daydream, which combined the pop
sensibilities of Music Box with downbeat R&B and hip hop
influences. Carey said that Columbia reacted negatively to her
intentions for the album: "Everybody was like 'What, are you
crazy?'. They're very nervous about breaking the formula."It
became her biggest-selling LP in the U.S., and its singles
achieved similar success: "Fantasy" became the second single to
debut at number-one in the U.S. and topped the Canadian chart
for twelve weeks, "One Sweet Day" (with Boyz II Men) spent a
still-record sixteen weeks at number one in the U.S., and
"Always Be My Baby" (co-produced by Jermaine Dupri) led the Hot
100's 1996 year-end radio airplay chart. Daydream generated
career-best reviews for Carey and was named one of 1995's best
albums by publications such as The New York Times, which wrote
that its "best cuts bring pop candy-making to a new peak of
textural refinement ... Carey's songwriting has taken a leap
forward, becoming more relaxed, s--ier and less reliant on
thudding clichés". Sales of the album were augmented by a short
but profitable world tour, and it received six Grammy Award
nominations.
Mariah Carey and Mottola separated in 1996. Although the public
image of the marriage was a happy one, she said that in reality
she had felt trapped by her relationship with Mottola, whom she
often described as controlling. They officially announced their
separation in 1997, and their divorce became final the following
year. Carey hired a new attorney and manager soon after the
separation, as well as an independent publicist. She became a
major songwriter and producer for other artists during this
period, contributing to the debut albums of Allure, 7 Mile and
Blaque through her short-lived Crave Records imprint.
Carey's next album Butterfly (1997) yielded the number-one
single "Honey", the lyrics and music video for which presented a
more overtly s--ual image of her than had been previously seen.
She stated that Butterfly marked the point that she attained
full creative control over her music, which continued to move in
an R&B/hip hop direction with material co-written and produced
by rappers such as Sean "Puffy" Combs and Missy Elliott, but
added: "I don't think it's that much of a departure from what
I've done in the past ... It's not like I went psycho and
thought I was going to be a rapper. Personally, this album is
about doing whatever the hell I wanted to do."Reviews were
almost uniformly positive: LAUNCHcast said Butterfly "pushes the
envelope", a move its critic thought "may prove disconcerting to
more conservative fans" but praised as "a welcome change". The
Los Angeles Times wrote: "Butterfly is easily the most personal,
confessional-sounding record she's ever done ... Carey-bashing
just might become a thing of the past."The album was a
commercial success, and "My All" (her thirteenth Hot 100
number-one) gave her the record for the most U.S. number-ones by
a female artist. Towards the turn of the millennium, Carey
developed the film project All That Glitters, and she also wrote
songs for the films Men in Black (1997) and How the Grinch Stole
Christmas (2000).
During the production of Butterfly, Mariah became involved with
New York Yankees baseball player Derek Jeter. Their relationship
ended in 1998, with both parties citing media interference as
the main reason for the split. That year saw the release of the
album #1's, a collection of her U.S. number-one singles up to
that point. Carey said she recorded new material for the album
as a way of rewarding her fans, and it also included "When You
Believe", an Academy Award-winning duet with Whitney Houston
from the soundtrack to The Prince of Egypt. #1's sold above
expectations, but a review in NME labelled Carey "a purveyor of
saccharine bilge like 'Hero', whose message seems wholesome
enough: that if you vacate your mind of all intelligent thought,
flutter your eyelashes and wish hard, sweet babies and honey
will follow". Also that year she appeared on the first televised
VH1 Divas benefit concert program, though her alleged prima
donna behaviour had already led many to consider her a diva. By
the following year, she had entered a relationship with singer
Luis Miguel.
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Rainbow, Mariah's sixth studio album, was released in 1999.
It was again comprised of more R&B/hip hop-oriented songs, many
of them co-created with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Both
"Heartbreaker" and "Thank God I Found You" (the former featuring
Jay-Z, the latter featuring Joe and boyband 98 Degrees) reached
number one in the U.S., and the success of the former made Carey
the only act to have a number-one single in each year of the
1990s. Media reception was generally enthusiastic, with the
Sunday Herald saying the album "sees her impressively tottering
between soul ballads and collaborations with R&B heavyweights
like Snoop Doggy Dogg, Usher ... It's a polished collection of
pop-soul." Similar sentiments were expressed in VIBE magazine,
which wrote, "She pulls out all stops...Rainbow will garner even
more adoration", but despite this it became Carey's
lowest-selling LP up to that point, and there was a recurring
criticism that the tracks were too alike. When the double A-side
"Crybaby"/"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" became her
first single to peak outside of the top twenty, Carey accused
Sony of under promoting it: "The political situation in my
professional career is not positive ... I'm getting a lot of
negative feedback from certain corporate people", she wrote on
her official website.
After receiving Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" Award (see
Billboard Music Awards) and the World Music Award for
"Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium", Carey parted
from Columbia and signed a contract with EMI's Virgin Records
worth a reported US$80 million. She often stated that Columbia
had regarded her as a commodity, with her separation from
Mottola exacerbating her relations with label executives. Just a
few months later in July 2001, it was widely reported that Carey
had suffered a physical and emotional breakdown. She had left
messages on her website complaining of being overworked, and her
relationship with Luis Miguel was ending. In an interview the
following year, she said, "I was with people who didn't really
know me, and I had no personal assistant. I'd be doing
interviews all day long, getting two hours of sleep a night, if
that."During an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live, Carey
handed out popsicles to the audience and began what was later
described as a "strip tease". By the month's end, she had
checked into hospital, and her publicist announced that she
would be taking a break from public appearances.
Critics panned Glitter, Mariah Carey's much delayed
semi-autobiographical film, and it was a box office failure. The
album Glitter, inspired by the music of the 1980s and released
on September 11, 2001, generated her worst showing on the U.S.
charts. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch dismissed it as "an absolute
mess that'll go down as an annoying blemish on a career that,
while not always critically heralded, was at least nearly
consistently successful", while Blender magazine opined, "After
years of trading her signature flourishes for a radio-ready
purr, Carey's left with almost no presence at all."Loverboy"
reached number two on the Hot 100 thanks to a price cut, but the
album's follow-up singles failed to chart.
Columbia released the low-charting album Greatest Hits shortly
after the failure of Glitter, and in early 2002 Virgin bought
out Carey's contract for $28 million, which created further
negative publicity. Carey said her time at Virgin had been "a
complete and total stress-fest ... I made a total snap decision
which was based on money, and I never make decisions based on
money. I learned a big lesson from that." Later that year, she
signed a $20 million contract with Island Records' Def Jam and
launched the record label MonarC. To add further to Carey's
emotional burdens, her father died of cancer that summer.
Following a well-received supporting role in the film WiseGirls,
Carey released the album Charmbracelet, which she said marked "a
new lease on life" for her. Sales of Charmbracelet were
moderate, and the quality of Carey's vocals came under severe
criticism. The Boston Globe declared the album as "the worst of
her career, revealing a voice no longer capable of either
gravity-defying gymnastics or soft coos", and Rolling Stone
commented: "Carey needs bold songs that help her use the power
and range for which she is famous. Charmbracelet is like a
stream of watercolors that bleed into a puddle of brown."Singles
such as "Through the Rain" failed on the charts and with pop
radio, whose playlists had become less open to maturing "diva"
stylists such as Carey, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion.
"I Know What You Want", a 2003 Busta Rhymes single on which
Mariah Carey guest-starred, fared considerably better and
reached the U.S. top five. Columbia later included it on the
remix collection The Remixes, Carey's lowest-selling album. That
year, she was awarded the World Music Chopard Diamond Award for
selling over 100 million albums worldwide. In 2004 she was
featured on rapper Jadakiss' single "U Make Me Wanna", which
reached the top ten on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart.
Mariah Carey's ninth studio album The Emancipation of Mimi was
released in 2005 and contained contributions from producers such
as The Neptunes, Kanye West and Carey's longtime collaborator
Jermaine Dupri. Carey said it was "very much like a party record
... the process of putting on makeup and getting ready to go out
... I wanted to make a record that was reflective of that."Mimi
became the year's best-selling album in the U.S., won three
Grammy Awards (including "Best Contemporary R&B Album") and
received some of Carey's most favorable reviews in some time;
The Guardian defined it as "a tough cookie of an album" and
"cool, focused and urban ... the first Mariah Carey tunes in
years I wouldn't have to be paid to listen to again". The second
single "We Belong Together" held the Hot 100's number-one
position for fourteen weeks (her longest run at the top as a
solo artist) and was the biggest hit of 2005 in the U.S., while
"Shake It Off" made Carey the only female artist to occupy the
top two positions on the Hot 100 simultaneously. "Don't Forget
about Us" became her seventeenth number-one in the U.S., which
tied her with Elvis Presley for the most number-ones by a solo
act according to Billboard magazine's revised methodology (their
statistician Joel Whitburn still credits Presley with an
eighteenth). By this count Carey is behind only The Beatles, who
have twenty number-ones.
Mariah Carey is scheduled to begin a concert tour, The
Adventures of Mimi, in summer 2006, and will receive a
"recording" star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.
Carey began to take professional acting lessons in 1997, and
within the coming year, she was auditioning for film roles. She
made her debut as an opera singer in the romantic comedy The
Bachelor (1999) starring Chris O'Donnell and
Renée Zellweger,
and CNN derisively referred to her casting as a talentless diva
as "letter-perfect".
Carey's first starring role was in Glitter (2001), playing a
struggling musician in the 1980s who breaks into the music
industry after meeting a disc jockey (Max Beesley). While Roger
Ebert said "Carey's acting ranges from dutiful flirtatiousness
to intense sincerity", most critics panned it: Halliwell's Film
Guide called it a "vapid star vehicle for a pop singer with no
visible acting ability", and The Village Voice observed: "When
Carey tries for an emotion—any emotion—she looks as if she's
lost her car keys."Glitter was a box office failure, and Carey
earned a Razzie Award for her role. She later said that the film
"started out as a concept with substance, but it ended up being
geared to 10-year-olds. It lost a lot of grit ... I kind of got
in over my head."
Mariah Carey, Mira Sorvino and Melora Walters co-starred as
waitresses at a restaurant run by mobsters in the independent
film WiseGirls (2002), which premiered at the Sundance Film
Festival but went straight to cable in the U.S. Critics
commended Carey for her efforts: The Hollywood Reporter
predicted, "Those scathing notices for Glitter will be a
forgotten memory for the singer once people warm up to Raychel",
and Roger Friedman, referring to her as "a Thelma Ritter for the
new millennium", said, "Her line delivery is sharp and she
manages to get the right laughs". WiseGirls producer Anthony
Esposito cast Carey in The Sweet Science, a film about an
unknown female boxer who is recruited by a boxing manager, but
it never entered production.
Carey was one of several musicians who appeared in the
independently-produced Damon Dash films Death of a Dynasty
(2003) and State Property 2 (2005), while her television work
has been limited to a January 2002 episode of Ally McBeal. Carey
joined the cast of the indie film Tennessee in 2006, taking the
role of a waitress who travels with her two brothers to find
their long-lost father.
Mariah has said that from childhood she was stimulated by soul
and R&B musicians such as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Gladys
Knight, Aretha Franklin and Al Green. Her music also contains
strong influences of gospel music, and her favourite gospel
singers include The Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar and Edwin
Hawkins. As Carey began to imbue her sound with hip hop,
speculation arose that she was making an attempt to take
advantage of the genre's popularity, but she told Newsweek,
"People just don't understand. I grew up with this music". She
has expressed appreciation for rappers such as The Sugarhill
Gang, Eric B. & Rakim, the Wu-Tang Clan, The Notorious B.I.G.
and Mobb Deep, with whom she collaborated on "The Roof (Back in
Time)" (1998).
Mariah Carey's debut album received criticism for being too
similar in style to the work of Whitney Houston, and throughout
her career, Carey's vocal and musical style, along with her
level of success, have been compared to Houston and Celine Dion.
Carey and her peers, according to Garry Mulholland, are "the
princesses of wails ... virtuoso vocalists who blend
chart-oriented pop with mature MOR torch song". In She Bop II:
The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (2002),
writer Lucy O'Brien attributed the comeback of Barbra
Streisand's "old-fashioned showgirl" to Carey and Dion, and
described them and Houston as "groomed, airbrushed and overblown
to perfection". Carey's musical transition and the use of more
revealing clothing during the late 1990s were in part initiated
to distance herself from this image, and she subsequently said
that most of her early work had been "schmaltzy MOR". Some have
noted that unlike Houston and Dion, Carey writes all of her own
songs, and the Guinness Rockopedia (1998) classified her as the
"songbird supreme". As of 2006 Carey had received a career-total
of five Grammy Awards.
Mariah Carey can cover all the notes from the alto vocal range
leading to those of a coloratura soprano, and her vocal
trademark is her ability to sing in the whistle register. She
has cited Minnie Riperton as the greatest influence on her
singing technique, and from a very early age, she would attempt
to emulate Riperton's high notes, to increasing degrees of
success as her vocal range expanded. According to most sources,
she has a five-octave vocal range, though some credit her with
as many as eight octaves. In 2003 her voice was voted the
greatest in music in MTV and Blender magazine's countdown of the
22 Greatest Voices in Music. Carey said of the poll: "What it
really means is voice of the MTV generation. Of course, it's an
enormous compliment, but I don't feel that way about myself."
Carey's voice has come under considerable scrutiny from critics
who believe that she does not effectively communicate the
message of her songs. Rolling Stone magazine said in 1992,
"Carey has a remarkable vocal gift, but to date, unfortunately,
her singing has been far more impressive than expressive ... at
full speed her range is so superhuman that each excessive note
erodes the believability of the lyric she is singing."The New
York Daily News wrote that Carey's singing "is ultimately what
does her in. For Carey, vocalizing is all about the performance,
not the emotions that inspired it ... Does having a great voice
automatically make you a great singer? Hardly."Some interpreted
Carey's decision to utilize what she described as "breathy"
vocals in some of her late 1990s and early 2000s work as a sign
that her voice had begun to deteriorate, but she has maintained
that it "has been here all along". An article in Vibe magazine
indicated that Carey's singing style highlights weaknesses in
other aspects of her music: "The impressiveness of her voice—as
well as her tendency to oversing—make the blandness of her
material all the more flagrant".
Love is the subject of the majority of Mariah Carey's lyrics,
although she has also written about themes such as racism, death
and spirituality. She has said that much of her work is partly
autobiographical, but TIME magazine wrote: "If only Mariah
Carey's music had the drama of her life. Her songs are often
sugary and artificial—NutraSweet soul. But her life has passion
and conflict."
Carey's output makes great use of electronic instruments such as
drum machines, synthesizers and keyboards. Many of her songs
contain piano music, and she was given piano lessons when she
was six years old. Carey said in one interview that she cannot
read sheet music and prefers to collaborate with a pianist when
composing her material, but feels that it is easier to
experiment with faster and less conventional melodies and chord
progressions using this technique. Some of her arrangements have
been inspired by the work of musicians such as Stevie Wonder, a
soul/R&B pianist whom Carey once referred to as "the genius of
the 20th century", but she has said "My voice is my instrument;
it always has been."Butterfly Melodies, a tribute album
containing piano renditions of some of Carey's songs, was
released in 2005.
Mariah Carey began commissioning remixes of her material early
in her career and helped spearhead the practice of recording
entirely new vocals for remixes. Disc jockey David Morales has
collaborated with Carey several times, starting with "Dreamlover"
(1993), which popularized the tradition of remixing pop songs
into house records and which Slant magazine named one of the
greatest dance songs of all time. From "Fantasy" (1995) onward,
she would enlist both hip hop and house producers to re-imagine
her album compositions. Entertainment Weekly included two
remixes of "Fantasy" on a list of Carey's greatest recordings
compiled in 2005: a National Dance Music Award-winning remix
produced by Morales and another featuring rapper Ol' Dirty
Bastard, and the latter has been credited with initiating the
trend of the pop/hip hop collaboration which has continued into
the 2000s through artists such as Beyoncé Knowles and Ashanti.
Sean Combs, who co-produced the hip hop remix, said that Carey
"knows the importance of mixes, so you feel like you're with an
artist who appreciates your work—an artist who wants to come up
with something with you". She continues to consult on remixes by
producers such as Morales, Jermaine Dupri, Junior Vasquez and DJ
Clue, and guest performers contribute frequently to them. The
popularity of these remixes, which often sound radically
different from their album counterparts, has been known to
eclipse the success of the original songs.
Mariah Carey is a philanthropist who has donated time and money
to organizations such as the Fresh Air Fund. She became
associated with the Fund in the early 1990s, and is the
co-founder of a camp located in Fishkill, New York, that enables
inner-city youth to embrace the arts and introduces them to
career opportunities. The camp was called Camp Mariah "for her
generous support and dedication to Fresh Air children", and she
received a Congressional Horizon Award for her youth-related
charity work. She is also well-known nationally for her work
with the Make-A-Wish Foundation in granting the wishes of
children with life-threatening illnesses, has volunteered for
the New York City Police Athletic League and contributed to the
obstetrics department of New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell
Medical Center. A percentage of the sales of MTV Unplugged was
donated to various other charities.
One of Mariah Carey's most high-profile benefit concert
appearances was on VH1's Divas Live special in 1998, where she
performed alongside other female singers in support of the Save
the Music Foundation. The concert was a ratings success, and
Carey participated in the 2000 special. She appeared at the
America: A Tribute to Heroes nationally televised fundraiser in
the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and in December
2001 she performed before peacekeeping troops in Kosovo. Carey
also hosted the CBS television special At Home for the Holidays,
which documented real-life stories of adopted children and
foster families, and she has worked with the New York City
Administration for Children's Services. In 2005 Carey performed
for Live 8 and at the Hurricane Katrina relief telethon Shelter
from the Storm.
Mariah Carey has participated in endorsements for Berlitz
Language Schools and the Aeon English College in Japan, Nescafé
coffee, and Intel Centrino personal computers. In early 2006 she
launched a jewelry and accessories line for teenagers,
"Glamorized", in U.S. Claire's and Icing stores. Later that year
it was announced she had signed a licensing deal with the
cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden to release a fragrance in
2007. During this period, as part of a partnership with Pepsi
and Motorola, Carey recorded and promoted series of exclusive
ringtones.
Discography
- 1990: Mariah Carey
- 1991: Emotions
- 1993: Music Box
- 1994: Merry Christmas
- 1995: Daydream
- 1997: Butterfly
- 1999: Rainbow
- 2001: Glitter
- 2002: Charmbracelet
- 2005: The Emancipation of Mimi
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