Mariah Carey was born in 1970 to Patricia Hickey and Alfred Roy Carey.

She moved to New York City when she was 17 to fulfil her ambition of becoming a star. Her debut album in 1990 included four number one hit singles and led to Mariah picking up a Grammy award for Best New Artist and Best Female Vocalist. Keen to capitalise on this success, a second album, Emotions came along quickly in 1991. The album topped the charts Carey married Mottola, some twenty years her senior, in 1993. Not letting her marriage slow down her career, her next album Music Box included two more hits singles, 'Dreamlover' and 'Hero'. A Christmas album and 1995's 'Daydream' both did well in the charts and, following her divorce from Mottola, Mariah returned with 'Butterfly' in 1997. Following the first single from her 1999 album, 'Rainbow', Carey became the first artist to top the charts in each year of the 1990s. However, by the turn of the millennium things were starting to go wrong for her Carey signed a contract with EMI's Virgin Records worth a reported $80 million. However, the record-breaking deal was cut short after . Her movie 'Glitter' and accompanying soundtrack were critical disasters which led to her new record company paying her $28 million dollars just to drop her. The stresses of work led to a personal breakdown and in 2001, Mariah sought professional help after posting suicidal messages on her website. However, after an extended break in 2005 her album 'The Emancipation of Mimi' shot to the top of the charts. The album also earned her a Grammy Award This also represented a new period of stability in her personal life, as Carey settled down with her second husband, actor and comedian Nick Cannon, in 2008 after a wedding in the Bahamas. In February 2011, the couple announced that they were expecting a boy and a girl, with twins on the way. Her happiness at home has been reflected in continued musical success, On 30 April 2011, Carey gave birth to twins Monroe and Moroccan Scott.