Nickname: Mirage, Mimi
Birthdate: March 27, 1970
Birthplace: Long Island, NY, USA
Height: 5'9"
Worked a variety of odd jobs to support herself, including hat/coat-checker, hostess, hair sweeper in hair salons, and waitress. She stated that she got fired from all her jobs because of her attitude and was concentrating of becoming a backing singer and mixing demos.
Father is Black Venezuelan-American, mother is White Irish-American.
The only female artist to have 16 #1 songs in the US Hot 100 chart.
Made her singing debut, age 20. [1990]
According to her spokesperson, Mariah suffered a physical and emotional breakdown, and spent the next couple weeks recovering in a Connecticut mental hospital. [25 July 2001]
Signed a $100,000,000 million deal with Virgin Records for her next four albums. [2001]
Mariah Carey's songs have spent more weeks at Number 1 in the Billboard charts than any other artist in history. Sixty-one weeks total, the previous record was fifty-nine weeks held by the Beatles. [2001]
Single 'One Sweet Day' holds the record for the single staying most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (a record 16 weeks)
Is the most successful female singer-songwriter of all time, with 16 #1 hits and more than 150 million records sold worldwide.
Her paternal Venezuelan grandfather's name was Francisco Nuñez. He changed his last name Nuñez to Carey after moving to New York City; he hoped an American name would help him make a good life in the US. He took the name Carey from his biological father. Francisco's mother Margarita Nuñez was with a man named Carey, but they were not married.
The Guinness Book of World Records awarded her the record for highest note hit by a human in their March 2003 edition for hitting the G7# note during a live performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner". This note was previously considered beyond human range. Incidentally, she also holds the record for largest vocal range; she can hit a note as low as A2.
With "Heartbreaker," the first single from her 1999 album Rainbow, she became the first artist to top the charts in each year of the 1990s.
Some of her prestigious awards include 2 Grammies, many American Music Awards, Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" Award and the World Music Award for "World's Best Selling Female Artist of the Millennium" to name a few.
When "We belong together" reached #1 on the Billboard charts she became the most popular female artist in the history of the American charts with 16 #1 hits.
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