Mariah Carey: The Emancipation of Mimi
CML call number: CD/POPULAR/Carey
Artist website: http://www.mariahcarey.com/
Winner of the Grammy for best contemporary R&B album; the song "We Belong Together" won best female R&B vocal performance and best R&B song. Worth checking out even if you are not ordinarily into this kind of music. Some of the songs definitely improve with repeated listening.
According to She's a Rebel by Gillian G. Gaar (781.66/Gaar): "A day after graduating from high school in 1987, Carey moved to Manhattan to pursue a singing career . . . eventually landing a job doing backup vocals for Brenda K. Starr. In 1988, Starr brought her to a Columbia Records party, where Carey handed a demo tape . . . to Tommy Mottola, then a Columbia executive. Mottola played the tape on the way home and was impressed enough to return to the party and look for Carey. She was quickly signed to the label. . . . In 1993, she married Mottola. . . . [S]he separated from Mottola in 1997 (they later divorced) and changed her management team. . . . Carey became the only artist to have had a number 1 hit in every year of the [1990s]" (pp. 458-459).
Artist website: http://www.mariahcarey.com/
Winner of the Grammy for best contemporary R&B album; the song "We Belong Together" won best female R&B vocal performance and best R&B song. Worth checking out even if you are not ordinarily into this kind of music. Some of the songs definitely improve with repeated listening.
According to She's a Rebel by Gillian G. Gaar (781.66/Gaar): "A day after graduating from high school in 1987, Carey moved to Manhattan to pursue a singing career . . . eventually landing a job doing backup vocals for Brenda K. Starr. In 1988, Starr brought her to a Columbia Records party, where Carey handed a demo tape . . . to Tommy Mottola, then a Columbia executive. Mottola played the tape on the way home and was impressed enough to return to the party and look for Carey. She was quickly signed to the label. . . . In 1993, she married Mottola. . . . [S]he separated from Mottola in 1997 (they later divorced) and changed her management team. . . . Carey became the only artist to have had a number 1 hit in every year of the [1990s]" (pp. 458-459).
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