Mariah Carey is an American R&B singer,

songwriter, record producer, and actress. a series

of hit records established her position as
Columbia's highest-selling act. According to
Billboard magazine, she was the most successful
artist of the 1990s in the United States.
She was born on March 27, 1970 in Huntington,
Long Island, New York. After her parents' divorce,
Carey had little contact with her father, and her
mother worked several jobs to support the family.
Carey spent much of her time at home alone and
turned to music to occupy herself. She began
singing at around the age of three, when her
mother began to teach her after Carey imitated her
mother practicing Verdi's opera Rigoletto in Italian.
- 1990
Carey co-wrote the tracks on her 1990 debut album Mariah
Carey. The album reached number one on the U.S.
Billboard 200 chart. Critics rated the album highly, and
Carey won Grammys for Best New Artist, and for her debut
single, "Vision of Love“ Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance
- 1993
Carey and Tommy Mottola had become involved
romantically during the making of her debut album, and in
June 1993, they were married.
- 1994
In late 1994, Carey released the holiday album Merry
Christmas. It contained cover material and original
compositions such as "All I Want for Christmas Is You",
which became Carey's biggest single in Japan and, in
subsequent years, emerged as one of her most perennially
popular songs on U.S. radio. Critical reception of Merry
Christmas was mixed, with All music calling it an
"otherwise vanilla set pretensions to high opera on 'O Holy
Night' and a horrid danceclub take on 'Joy to the World‘. It
became one of the most successful Christmas albums of
all time.
-1995-1996
In 1995, Columbia released Carey's fifth album, Daydream,
which combined the pop sensibilities of Music Box with
downbeat R&B and hip hop influences
A remix of "Fantasy", became her biggest-selling album in the
U.S., and its singles achieved similar success. "Fantasy"
became the second single to debut at number one in the U.S.
and topped the Canadian Singles Chart for twelve weeks; "One
Sweet Day" (a duet with Boyz II Men) spent a record-holding
sixteen weeks at number one in the U.S.; and "Always Be My
Baby" was the most successful record on U.S. radio in 1996,
according to Billboard magazine.
-1997
Carey and Mottola officially separated in 1997 . Carey's next
album, Butterfly, yielded the number-one single "Honey", the
lyrics and music video for which presented a more overtly
sexual image of her than had been previously seen.She stated
that Butterfly marked the point when she attained full creative
control over her music. The album was a commercial success
although not to the degree of her previous three albums and
"My All" (her thirteenth Hot 100 number-one) gave her the
record for the most U.S. number-ones by a female artist
1998
In 1998.. The song "When You Believe", a duet with Whitney
Houston, was recorded for the soundtrack of The Prince of
Egypt and won an Academy Award .
1999
Rainbow, Carey's seventh studio album, was released in 1999
and comprised more R&B/hip hop–oriented songs, many of
them co-created with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
"Heartbreaker" and "Thank God I Found You" reached number
one in the U.S.
2002
In 2002, Carey released the album Charmbracelet, which she
said marked "a new lease on life" for her. Sales of
Charmbracelet were moderate, and the quality of Carey's
vocals came under severe criticism. The Boston Globe
declared the album "the worst of her career, revealing a voice
no longer capable of either gravity-defying gymnastics or soft
coos", and Rolling Stone commented, "Carey needs bold
songs that help her use the power and range for which she is
famous.
2003-2004
"I Know What You Want", a 2003 Busta Rhymes single on which
Carey guest starred, fared considerably better and reached the
U.S. top five; it was also included on Columbia's release of The
Remixes, a compilation of Carey's best remixes and some new
tracks. That year, she embarked on the Charmbracelet World
Tour and was awarded the Chopard Diamond award for selling
more than 100 million albums worldwide. She was featured on
rapper Jadakiss's 2004 single "U Make Me Wanna", which
reached the top ten on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop cha.

2005
Carey's tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi
contained contributions from producers such as The Neptunes,
Kanye West and Carey's longtime collaborator, Jermaine Dupri
. The album earned Carey a Grammy Award for Best
Contemporary R&B Album, and the single "We Belong
Together" won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best
R&B Song. "We Belong Together" held the Hot 100's number-
one position for fourteen weeks. Subsequently, the single
"Shake It Off" reached number two for a week, making Carey
the first female lead vocalist to have simultaneously held the
Hot 100's top two positions.
2007
By spring 2007, she had begun working on her eleventh studio album,
E=MC². Asked about the album title's meaning, Carey said "Einstein's
theory? Physics? Me? Hello! ...Of course I'm poking fun.“ Two weeks
before the album's release, on April 2, 2008, "Touch My Body", her first
single from the album, became Carey's eighteenth number-one single
on the Hot 100, pushing her past Elvis Presley into second place for
the most number-one singles among all artists in the rock era,
according to Billboard magazine's revised methodologyCarey is now
second only to The Beatles, who have twenty number-one singles
2008
On April 30, 2008, Carey married actor/comedian/rapper Nick Cannon,
at Carey's private estate on Windermere Island in The Bahamas. In
October 2008, Carey was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of
Fame.
2009
Carey performed "Hero" at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball after
Barack Obama was sworn in as America's first African-American
president on January 20, 2009. On July 7, 2009, Carey - alongside Trey
Lorenz - performed her version of the Jackson 5 hit "I'll Be There" at
the memorial service for Michael Jackson in the Los Angeles Staples
Center.