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Vote: | A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time. |
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Vote: | Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you. |
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Vote: | I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere. |
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Vote: | I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands. |
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Vote: | I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is. |
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Vote: | I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marvelled at it. |
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Vote: | Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and hopefully bring some enjoyment to other people through what I do is an incrediable felling and I am just really thankfull for it. |
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Vote: | This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me! |
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Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970 in Huntington, New York) is an American popular music singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, diva, actress, and philanthropist who rose to prominence in the 1990s. Carey's music has been influenced by rhythm and blues, pop, gospel, hip hop, dance, and rock and roll. She is credited as having a five-octave vocal range, possibly the greatest range of any popular singer since Minnie Riperton in the 1970s . She makes lavish use of melisma; her vocal swoops and trills are easily recognizable features of her sound.
Surveys have placed Carey as one of the best-selling female recording artists ever worldwide . She was the top-selling recording artist of any kind during the 1990s and her singles have spent more weeks at #1 than any other living artist in Billboard history . Carey's vocal style influenced a generation of singers who came after her, including Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé Knowles as well as many American Idol competitors.
Early life and family, 1970–1990
Carey is the third and youngest child of Patricia Hickey, an opera singer and voice coach of Irish-American ethnicity, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of Venezuelan-African descent. She was named after the song "(And They Call the Wind) Mariah", from the musical Paint Your Wagon. She has no middle name. Carey has a sister named Alison and a brother named Morgan, both of whom are about ten years older than she.
As a multiracial family, the Carey household was met with racial slurs, hostility and even violence. (She claimed in the early days, crosses were burned on their lawn, their dogs were poisoned, their car was blown up, and a shot was fired through the kitchen window during mealtime). Thus, the family moved around the New York area often to find more friendly neighborhoods . The strain on the family led to the divorce of Alfred and Patricia when Mariah was three; Mariah and Morgan stayed with their mother while Alison stayed with their father. Mariah had little contact with her father, except for sporadic visits on weekends but even those dwindled as the years went by; Patricia raised Mariah, often struggling with two or three jobs and continuing to move among different towns on Long Island, but tried to provide a spirited, loving household.
Carey began singing when she was three; her mother realized early on that she had tremendous potential. Carey first performed in public when she was six and first began writing songs when she was in grade school. She attended and graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn but was frequently absent due to efforts to break into the music business . She eventually landed a role as a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr . Then in 1988, Carey met Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola while at a party and gave him a demo tape. He played the tape while leaving the party and was very impressed by what he heard. He returned to the party to find Carey, but she had already left. Nevertheless he tracked her down and signed her to a recording contract . This Cinderella-like story became part of the standard publicity surrounding Carey's entrance into the industry.
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