While my family was decorating our Christmas tree this weekend, we of course had to also listen to Christmas music. Mom switched CDs and Mariah Carey's voice filled our house with Christmas spirit. I felt she would be a great person to blog about because of her Hispanic background and also because her Christmas CD is one of my favorites comes this time of year.
Mariah Carey was born March 27, 1970, in Long Island, New York to Alfred Roy Carey, A Venezuelan engineer and Patricia Carey. Mariah is the youngest of three children, and her parents divorced when she was three. At a young age, she always imitated her mother's opera singing and was given singing lessons when she turned four. Carey moved to New York after graduating from Harborfields High School in 1987. There she worked as a waitress and a coat check girl while she continued writing songs and actively pursuing a music career at night.
Her first album was released in 1990 entitled Mariah Carey and included 4 number one best selling songs. Her next album was released in 1992, called Emotions and included 2 number one tracks. Carey has sold around 160 million albums worldwide. She is the third-best selling female artist of all time. With 2008's Touch My Body album, she passed Elvis Presley to become second to The Beatles for the most number one hit singles in the United States.
Carey married actor Nick Cannon in 2008 and gave birth to the couple's fraternal twins on their third wedding anniversary this past year.
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