Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970 in New York, USA) is a singer-songwriter pop and R & B record producer and American actor. She began her music career in 1990 under the guidance of Tommy Mottola, director of Columbia Records. After her marriage to Mottola in 1993, she has a variety of music publications succeed and thus strengthened her position as one of the most successful artists of the label. In the 1990s, she was the most successful artists in America by Billboard magazine and is a female artist to sell more records globally by the World Music Awards.

After the split with Mottola in 1996, she fully mastered the ability to create images and music itself, as well as negative effects of hip-hop put into their recordings. Her popularity declined after she left the firm Colombia in 2001. The following year, she was removed Virgin Records recording contract after a series of severely depressed physically and mentally on the mass media, as well as the indifference of the public with Glitter, the project and the soundtrack of her film. In 2002, Carey signed a contract with Island / Def Jam, and after a period of only modest success, she has returned to top spot on the music scene in 2005 with the album The Emancipation of Mimi.

Mariah Carey is the World Music Awards recognized the singer's most successful pop music, and she also holds the record as explosive singer with many singles champion in the U.S. (18 songs). Besides the commercial success, she has won five Grammy music awards America's most prestigious and well known for singing, make the same pitch ranges using the wind a thing practice. But critics say the music of Mariah Carey attempts to prove God for his voice sometimes has lost feelings that she would be better to transfer the listener.

In 2006, Forbes magazine rated the property of Mariah Carey is about $ 225 million and ranked her at # 6 in the top 20 richest women in the entertainment world after Oprah Winfrey, JK Rowling, Martha Stewart, Madonna and Celine Dion

The studio album

* 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
* 2008: E = MC ²
* 2009: Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

The other album

* 1992: MTV Unplugged
* 1998: # 1's
* 2001: Greatest Hits
* 2003: The Remixes
* 2008: The Ballads
Video / DVD

* 1991: The First Vision
* 1992: MTV Unplugged +3
* 1994: Here Is Mariah Carey
* 1996: Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden
* 1999: Around the World
* 1999: # 1's
* 2007: Divarie