Mariah studied at Greenlawn's Harborfields High School.
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Career
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1990
Carey exiting Shepherd's Bush Empire after promoting her single "Vision of Love" on Wogan.
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1995
American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey and husband, American music executive, Tommy Mottola, attend the 'Salute to American Heroes Gala'.
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1998
Carey at the Edwards Air Force Base during the making of the "I Still Believe" music video.
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1999
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2005
Carey, pictured with former Island Records head L.A. Reid, at the release party for The Emancipation of Mimi.
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2010
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Carey performing at a concert.
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2013
Carey performing on Good Morning America.
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2014
Carey attending the 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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2014
2124 Broadway, New York, NY 10023, USA
Queen Of Christmas, Mariah Carey performs her holiday smash hits at the Beacon Theatre.
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2016
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Mariah Carey attends the M.A.C Cosmetics Mariah Carey Beauty Icon Launch at Baccarat Hotel.
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2016
Manhattan, NY 10036, USA
Mariah Carey performs during the New Year's Eve Countdown at Times Square.
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2016
Manhattan, NY 10036, USA
Singer Mariah Carey performs during New Year's Eve 2017 in Times Square.
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2017
665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
Mariah Carey performs onstage during the AHF World AIDS DAY Concert and 30th Anniversary Celebration featuring Mariah Carey and DJ Khaled at the Shrine Auditorium.
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2017
Manhattan, NY 10036, USA
Mariah Carey performs during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve at Times Square.
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2017
3400 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
TV personality Nick Cannon, Moroccan Scott Cannon, singer Mariah Carey and Monroe Cannon at Nickelodeon's 2017 Kids' Choice Awards at USC Galen Center.
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2017
835 Washington St, New York, NY 10014, USA
Mariah Carey and her children Moroccan and Monroe attend the Mariah Carey concert after party at Sugar Factory American Brasserie on Ocean Drive.
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2017
4 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York, NY 10001, USA
Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka perform in Concert - New York, New York at Madison Square Garden.
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2017
Bellevue, Washington, USA
Global Icon Mariah Carey Announces Mariah Carey Christmas Factory During The Grand Opening Of Sugar Factory American Brasserie.
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2017
Bellevue, Washington, USA
Global Icon Mariah Carey Announces Mariah Carey Christmas Factory During The Grand Opening Of Sugar Factory American Brasserie.
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2018
777 Chick Hearn Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
Mariah Carey performs onstage during the 2018 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater.
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2018
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Mariah Carey performs live during her All I Want For Christmas Is You tour at Motorpoint Arena on December 09, 2018 in Nottingham, England.
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2018
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Mariah Carey performs live during her All I Want For Christmas Is You tour at Motorpoint Arena.
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2018
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA
Recording artist Mariah Carey attends the 19th Annual Post-Golden Globes Party hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures and InStyle at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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2018
777 Chick Hearn Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
Mariah Carey performs onstage during the 2018 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater.
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2019
660 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA
Mariah Carey performs onstage with Monroe Cannon and Moroccan Cannon during the Caution World Tour at Fox Theater.
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Carey performing "Hero" live during the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball for President Obama.
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Mariah Carey and Usher have been good friends for years.
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Beyoncé Knowles and Mariah Carey are as good of friends as two divas can get.
Mariah Carey performs onstage during the AHF World AIDS DAY Concert and 30th Anniversary Celebration featuring Mariah Carey and DJ Khaled at the Shrine Auditorium.
TV personality Nick Cannon, Moroccan Scott Cannon, singer Mariah Carey and Monroe Cannon at Nickelodeon's 2017 Kids' Choice Awards at USC Galen Center.
Recording artist Mariah Carey attends the 19th Annual Post-Golden Globes Party hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures and InStyle at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Recording artist Mariah Carey attends the 19th Annual Post-Golden Globes Party hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures and InStyle at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Recording artist Mariah Carey (L) and Bryan Tanaka attend the 19th Annual Post-Golden Globes Party hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures and InStyle at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Recording artist Mariah Carey (L) and Bryan Tanaka attend the 19th Annual Post-Golden Globes Party hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures and InStyle at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Recording artist Mariah Carey attends the 19th Annual Post-Golden Globes Party hosted by Warner Bros. Pictures and InStyle at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Recording artist Mariah Carey (L) and Bryan Tanaka attend the Clive Davis and Recording Academy Pre-GRAMMY Gala and GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Jay-Z.
Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She rose to prominence after releasing her self-titled debut studio album Mariah Carey in 1990; it went multiplatinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Under the guidance of Columbia Records executive and later husband Tommy Mottola, Carey continued booking success with follow.
Background
Mariah Carey's family history and background are diverse. Her late father, Alfred Roy Carey, was an aeronautical engineer of Venezuelan heritage, while her mother Patricia Hickey is of Irish American ancestry.
The couple married in 1960, when racial tensions in America were at their height, and interracial relationships were frowned upon within many quarters. Unsurprisingly, race featured strongly during Mariah's early childhood growing up in Huntington, New York City. “It's been difficult for me, moving around so much, having to grow up by myself... my parents divorced,” she recalled in Mariah Carey Revisited. “And I always felt kind of different from everybody else in my neighborhoods. I was a different person ethnically. And sometimes, that can be a problem. If you look a certain way, everybody goes ‘White girl’, and I'd go, ‘No, that's not what I am.’”
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.
Mariah Carey is a devout Episcopalian who credits God for her success.
Politics
Carey is an original Obama supporter and has made donations to the liberal organization, Moveon.org.
Views
Carey doesn’t know much about politics, but at least she’s woman enough to admit it. It might be why she has very little to say about political issues. However, speaking about the effect Obama’s 2008 campaign had on her, she said:
I can relate a lot to so many of the stories he tells. Clearly I am not the political analyst of the ages, but this is something that hits me on a deeper level than anything I’ve ever experienced growing up.
She has stuck with Obama over the years and has even contributed to his 2012 campaign.
One might question Carey’s political sensitivity, though, as she is one of a short list of artists who has performed for human rights-violating, third-world dictators for quite a bit of money. In Carey’s case, she performed for the Gadhafi family before they were overthrown by a NATO-backed popular uprising
Quotations:
'You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'
'If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.'
'Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.'
'I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.'
'I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.'
Personality
Freud might look at in terms of Mariah Carey’s personality is the idea of and how Mariah Carey might have show cased some signs of this. Mariah Carey didn’t really see much of her father after her parents divorced and her mother worked a lot. Mariah might have interpreted this as her mother having to overcompensate for her father’s not being around and found a subconscious need for an older father like figure in the house. Mariah might have exemplified projection. Projection is taking unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else. From a psychoanalytic perspective, Mariah’s not having a father like figure in the house might have forced her to project her desires for a father like figure into her marrying a man much older then her who seemingly treated her like a daughter figure. Mariah Carey has often described Tommy Motolla as ‘restrictive’. Mariah Carey was quoted as saying ”Maybe it’s for my own good that I wasn’t “allowed” to do those things, but that’s not how it felt. It felt suddenly like I had a strict father..”. This quote really makes it seem like she was projecting her lack of a father figure sort of desires onto her husband, Tommy Motolla.