This section contains the bio of famous Hollywood Actress Mariah Carey.

Mariah Carey Biography :

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969) is a Grammy Award-winning American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, and actress. In 1988 Carey met Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola at a party, where Starr gave him Carey's demo tape. Mottola played the tape and was very impressed with what he heard. Carey and Tommy Mottola had become romantically involved during the making of her debut album. In 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola she became the first recording act to have its first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. , and in June 1993 they were married. Later, following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, 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.

Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. She is the third and youngest child of Patricia Hickey, a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish American extraction, and Alfred Roy Carey (formerly Nunez), an aeronautical engineer of Afro-Venezuelan heritage. Carey's parents took divorce when she was three years old.Carey had little contact with her father, and her mother worked several jobs to support the family. Spending much of her time at home alone, Carey turned to music as an outlet. She began singing at around the age of three. Her mother Patricia was her vocal coach; Patricia began teaching her how to sing after Carey imitated her practicing Verdi's opera Rigoletto in Italian.

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