... there have been various accounts for her year of birth.
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Did you know?Carey was named after the song "They Call the Wind Mariah."
Her high school classmates gave Mariah the nickname "Mirage" because she was frequently absent because of her work as a demo singer for local recording studios.
Mariah possesses a five-octave vocal range, and was ranked first in a 2003 MTV and Blender magazine countdown of the 22 Greatest Voices in Music, as voted by fans and readers in an online poll.
"I have nodules on my vocal cords," said Carey in 1998 interviews with Vibe Magazine and ShowBiz Spy. "My mother says I've had them since I was a kid. That's why I have the high register and the belting register and I can still be husky. My doctors showed me my vocal cords and why I can hit those high notes. It's a certain part of the cord that not many people use—the very top. My natural voice is low."
Carey was cited as the world’s best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the 1998 World Music Awards and was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium by the same organization in 2000.
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Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. Her mother is a former opera singer and vocal coach. Her paternal grandfather, Roberto Nuñez, changed his surname to Carey after moving to the U.S. from Venezuela.
Her work in the Long Island music scene provided opportunities to work with many professional musicians, who helped her co-write songs for her demo tape. After moving to New York City, she worked part-time jobs and completed 500 hours of beauty school. Eventually, she became a backup singer for Puerto Rican freestyle singer Brenda K. Starr.
Carey co-wrote the tracks on her 1990 debut album Mariah Carey and she has co-written most of her material ever since. Critics were mostly positive and the album reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, where it remained for several weeks. It yielded four number-one singles and made Carey a star in the U. S.
Emotions, Carey's second album, was released soon after her debut album but was neither as critically or commercially successful. However, the title track "Emotions" made Carey into the only recording act whose first five singles have reached number one on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. (The album's follow-up singles failed to extend the streak.) Carey co-produced most of her material.
In 1997, she introduced elements of hip hop into her album work. After initial success, her popularity was in decline when she left Columbia, in 2001. She signed a record $80 million deal with Virgin Records, only to be dropped from the label and bought out of her contract in the following year.
The career downturn was largely due to the highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception that was given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project.
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The single from the album, "Shake It Off," reached number two for a week, which made Carey the first female lead vocalist to have simultaneously held the Hot 100's top two positions.
Carey's singles have collectively topped the charts for seventy-nine weeks, making her the artist with the most weeks atop the Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked her at number six on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists," making Carey the second most successful female artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Carey and husband, actor/comedian/rapper Nick Cannon are expecting twins in the spring of 2011.
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