While living in Huntington, neighbors poisoned the family dog and set fire to their car. 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 began singing at the age of three, often imitating her mother's take on Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" in Italian. While her elder sister Alison moved in with their father, Mariah and her older brother Morgan remained with their mother. During her years in elementary school, she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature.
Early life
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey | Early life
Most of the time she was home alone and began singing at the age of three, often imitating  Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" in Italian. She spent much of her time at home alone and began singing at the age of three, often imitating her mother's take on Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" in Italian. During her years in elementary school, she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature. She began writing poetry and lyrics while at school. Carey spent much of her time at home alone and began singing at the age of three, often imitating her mother's take on Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" in Italian She spent much of her time at home alone and began singing at the age of three, often imitating her mother's take on Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" in Italian.
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Olivia Olson
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Los Angeles, California
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Singing the song "All I Want for Christmas Is You
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Mariah Carey
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No. 6 on the "Billboard"
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An American singer-songwriter and actress.
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Huntington, New York
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Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York
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Carey began writing poetry and lyrics while attending Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, where she graduated in 1987. Carey began vocal training under the tutelage of her mother. Though a classically trained opera singer, Patricia never pressured her daughter to pursue a career in classical opera. Carey recalled that she had "never been a pushy mom. She never said, 'Give it more of an operatic feel.' I respect opera like crazy, but it didn't influence me." In high-school, she was frequently absent because of her work as a demo singer; her classmates consequently gave her the nickname Mirage.
Mariah Carey | Early life
While living in Huntington, neighbors poisoned the family dog and set fire to their car. 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 began singing at the age of three, often imitating her mother's take on Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" in Italian. While her elder sister Alison moved in with their father, Mariah and her older brother Morgan remained with their mother. During her years in elementary school, she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature.
Mariah Carey | Early life
Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York, on March 27, 1969 or 1970. Her name was derived from the song "They Call the Wind Maria," originally from the 1951 Broadway musical "Paint Your Wagon." She is the third and youngest child of Patricia (née Hickey), a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish descent, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of African-American and Afro-Venezuelan lineage. The last name Carey was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Núñez, after he emigrated to New York. Patricia's family disowned her for marrying a black man. Racial tensions prevented the Carey family from integrating into their community.
Mariah Carey | Early life
As a child, Carey lived with her mother Patricia in a small apartment on Long Island, New York. They were poor and had to move several times as Patricia found different jobs. As a result, Carey frequently transferred into different schools, and at the age of seventeen, she moved into a small Manhattan studio with other young women to pursue a career in music. She had already begun working on her demo tape with Ben Margulies, a classmate at her school in Huntington, Long Island. During this period, she lived a lifestyle of poverty, often sharing a box of spaghetti with her five roommates and wearing torn shoes.
Make It Happen (Mariah Carey song) | Background
Her work in the Long Island music scene gave her opportunities to work with musicians such as Gavin Christopher and Ben Margulies, with whom she co-wrote material for her demo tape. After moving to New York City, Carey worked part-time jobs to pay the rent, and she completed 500 hours of beauty school. Carey moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, which she shared with four other female students. She landed a gig singing backup for Puerto Rican freestyle singer Brenda K. Starr.
Mariah Carey | Early life
She then enjoyed singing popular music on the order of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Her voice was such that friends and family convinced her to try operatic singing, and beginning at age 16 she began to study for same.
Anita Rachvelishvili | Early life
She recalls that, as a teenager, her mother was able to gauge her mood according to how much singing she was doing. When she was 14, she was given a Billie Holiday album that was the first piece of music to affect her emotionally. She was then opened up to artists such as Patti Smith, Radiohead, and Low, artists whom she still cites as some of her favorites. She never considered a formal career in singing until after she graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a joint honours degree in political science and business, and she never considered becoming an actress until after she established herself as a singer.
Maria Doyle Kennedy | Early life
Marian Boykan was born in 1928 in New York City; her parents were dentist Joseph Boykan and his wife Matilda (Mattie, née Caspe), a former laboratory technician and housewife. As a young girl, she performed ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House, and this influenced her later life where she was often more comfortable speaking before large audiences than in small groups. Although she wanted to attend the Bronx High School of Science, it was at that time only for boys; instead, she went to a girls' school, Hunter College High School. Her parents were unwilling to pay the tuition for private college for her, so she went to Hunter College, an inexpensive local school primarily aimed at training schoolteachers.
Marian Pour-El | Early life and education
Nazarian grew up in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey and attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North for her freshman and sophomore years, before being home-schooled for the remainder of high school years to avoid conflicts with her professional performing career.
Mariam Nazarian | Early life
She was born in Australia to an Australian mother and British father, both architects. She grew up in England. She studied at Birmingham University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Mariah Gale | Early life
Pitillo was born on January 8, 1966, in Elmira, New York, and grew up in Mahwah, New Jersey. Her parents divorced and her father moved Maria and her sisters, Lisa and Gina, to Mahwah, New Jersey. She attended Mahwah High School, where she was on the track team, before transferring to Northern Highlands Regional High School. She was prevented from attending her high school graduation ceremony after an altercation with her English teacher.
Maria Pitillo | Early life
Hudson was born on September 12, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the third and youngest child of Darnell Donerson (November 7, 1950 – October 24, 2008) and Samuel Simpson (died 1999). She was raised as a Baptist in Englewood and attended Dunbar Vocational High School, from which she graduated in 1999. She cites Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle as her overall biggest influences and inspiration. She has also credited Mariah Carey as being one of her musical "heroes." At age 7 she got her start in performing by singing with the church choir and doing community theater with the help of her late maternal grandmother, Julia.
Jennifer Hudson | Early life
When she was 10, Young M.A started to write rhymes in her schoolbooks. Her mother encouraged her and purchased a karaoke machine, which M.A would set up as a makeshift studio in her closet. In 2010, she graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School.
Young M.A | Early life
She was born in New York City. As a child, she never knew her biological parents; during her infancy, she was left outside the doors of a church with a note pinned to her saying that her name was "Olivia Rockefeller". She was later adopted. She attended the Brentwood Hall School in Westchester County, New York.
Mary Field | Early life
Hupfield grew up in Parry Sound, Ontario. She holds a BA in art history with a minor in native studies from the University of Toronto, and received an MFA from York University.
Maria Hupfield | Early life and education
Cáthia was born in The Bronx in New York City to parents who immigrated from El Salvador. She attended high school at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, in New York City's Manhattan borough, where she was a vocal major and trained in opera, musical theater and learned how to play the piano as a teenager. As a senior in high school, she competed in the Apollo Theater Amateur Night, advancing to the semi-finals. She cites Whitney Houston, Selena Quintanilla, Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey as some of her vocal inspirations in her earlier years.
Cáthia | Early life (before "The Voice")
When I came to America, I found a box of CDs under my parents' bed. It was a surprise to me because I didn't think they listened to music. I found out later that my dad was the one who bought it because there was a discount at his job or something. There were CDs by Ace of Base, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and more—about ten albums. I would put them on and cry because of the way the music made me feel. Mariah Carey's album changed my life. I was learning English through listening to music, which was a powerful connection.
Marieme | Early life
Merryll Saylan was born in 1936 in the Pelham Parkway area of The Bronx borough of New York City. She moved to and lived in Los Angeles in her youth, where she had an early musical education in piano and viola. She attended UCLA right after graduating high school, where she met her first husband, but would drop out. She ended up attending UCLA once again, after first taking some classes at Santa Monica City College.
Merryll Saylan | Early life
He also noted that the singer seems concerned that she had to grow up quicker than was perhaps necessary, in order to live her life in a controlled environment, "Maybe I grew up a little too soon." During the chorus, Carey lightens the mood of the song by singing about having courage to face times of adversity, "But I closed my eyes, steadied my feet on the ground, raised my head to the sky. And though times rolled by, still I feel like a child as I look at the moon. Maybe I grew up a little too soon." Jon Pareles for "The New York Times" wrote that Carey "coos" the lyrics "Maybe I grew up a little too soon" and "That woman-child inside was on the verge of fading/ Thankfully I woke up in time." In an interview with CNN on September 7, 2012, where she was honored by Broadcast Music, Inc.
Close My Eyes (Mariah Carey song) | Composition and lyrical interpretation
Born in Los Angeles, California, Gray grew up in a low income family, moving from place to place. At age 11, she and her six siblings settled in a one-room apartment long-term. She and her siblings were put into foster care, due to her parents drug use. She attended Bret Harte Middle School, where she first played basketball. After middle school she attended Washington Prep, where she played volleyball, track, and basketball.
Reshanda Gray | Early life
Cino, whose family is Italian American, was born in Buffalo, New York. She attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through college.
Maria Cino | Early life
Mercader was born on November 28, 1965, in New York City to Manuel and Gladys Mercader. She studied at Dominican Academy, then at the College of New Rochelle, where she graduated in 1987.
Maria Mercader | Early life
These interviews were not entirely reliable: in one she recollected attending one school on 99th and West End Avenue and later a high school on 85th Street, although the Hardy family lived nowhere near either school, and, more importantly, neither of those schools existed during her childhood. Wherever she attended school, she left around 1896 and, as the oldest child, immediately went out to work.
Coretti Arle-Titz | Early life
Brosh was born to a Jewish family in France and moved with her family to New Jersey, where she lived variously in Fort Lee, Demarest and Montvale, and attended Saddle River Day School in Saddle River. She graduated "magna cum laude" from Harvard University.
Aline Brosh McKenna | Early life
Maria was born in Allentown, PA in 1962 to Robert David “Bob” Rodale and Ardath Harter Rodale, where she grew up on the family’s farm along with two sisters and two brothers. She went on to attend Muhlenberg College, also in Allentown, where she double majored in Communications and Art and earned her bachelor's degree in 1985.
Maria Rodale | Early life and education
She always played with her make-believe friends and was a happy child. When she was six on June 29, 1949 her baby sister Emerald arrived, and Maria became the middle child over night. She was always a mature child but now she had to grow up really fast. Five children, three of them teenagers practically were too much for her mother. She became her mother’s helper assuming responsibilities being the oldest girl, house chores; cleaning, ironing, sweeping and dusting. She was doing the grocery shopping by her seventh birthday every morning before going to school, as the boys were not to be trusted with cash.
Maria Papapetros | Early life and career
My assimilation to America was all through music. I was teased a lot for my skin color and for being straight from Africa." At the University of Buffalo, Marieme studied journalism and communication, and even studied and interned in feature writing in London, United Kingdom. It was in high schoolwhen a jazz history class played Billie Holiday that she realized what she wanted to become, and did so with a vocal range of several octaves.
Marieme | Early life
Carey was born on February 26, 1942 in Annapolis, Maryland to Stanley Willard Henson Jr. and Thelma Burnell Henson; her father was working as a wrestling instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy. The family soon moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where her father continued his medical studies. Michele was a piano prodigy; she won a national contest at the Chicago Music Festival at age 13, and performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Carey's family eventually moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, where her father practiced as a physician, becoming Fort Collins' first open heart surgeon. She attended and graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1960.
Michele Carey | Early life and education
O'Brien was born on June 25, 1971, and raised in the small town of Dellroy, Ohio. Her parents were hippie musicians, and her middle name Waterfall was based on the Jimi Hendrix song. The family later moved to Los Angeles, where O'Brien appeared in local theaters. Her mother is actress Jackie O'Brien, with whom she appeared in the film "Together & Alone".
Mariah O'Brien | Early life
Haran was born in San Francisco, California, one of eight children in an Irish Catholic family. Her father, James Haran, taught English, film and theater at City College of San Francisco. Her mother encouraged Haran to study dancing and violin, but she eventually turned to singing. In her youth, her favorite singers included Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, and Peggy Lee, and their work influenced her style and choice of material as a professional singer. She was also influenced by Depression-era films that she watched in her youth. Later, they provided material as she wove anecdotes about that period with performances of songs of the time.
Mary Cleere Haran | Early years
Crawford has stated that her childhood was affected by her adoptive mother's alcoholism. At 10, Crawford was sent to Chadwick School in Palos Verdes, California, which many other celebrity children attended. However, her mother sent her from Chadwick to graduate from Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in La Cañada (now the city of La Cañada Flintridge), California, and curtailed Crawford's outside contact until her graduation. After graduating from Flintridge, she moved from California to Pittsburgh to attend Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and then to New York City, where she studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan. After seven years, she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.
Christina Crawford | Early life and education
As was typical of wealthy families, she was educated at home by a tutor.
Maria Bal | Early life and education
As published in Miss Earth's official website, Stephanie described her childhood days as, "It was good, I lived with many nice things. I was studying in my school, and year after year I was learning new things. When I was 9 years old my younger brother was born, and I could support my mom with all the baby work. At 12 I started high school and it was a new and difficult experience because all my colleagues called me giraffe and bullied me. I have a lot friends and I was not affected because I used to study a good grades.
Stephanie de Zorzi | Early life and career beginnings
Gehan started playing her first instrument when she was three years old at Maria Oselia Treatchy, the Italian Nuns School. Since then, she never lived away from music or away of stage and life performance, till she was graduated from college.
Gehan Rateb | Early life
The environment that Maria Rodrigo had growing up was very cultured, and her childhood consisted of being surrounded by high intellects. She acquired her first musical abilities from her father and then piano with Jose Trago and composition with Emilio Serrano. As a child prodigy, at the age of 14 she had already received scholarships to further her studies in France, Germany and Belgium. She ended up going to the city of Munich with the scholarship granted by the Board of Extension of Studies. Maria later served occasionally as a professor at the Royal Conservatory, until 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began.
Maria Rodrigo | Background and Early Life
Mariam grew up in a 1-room HDB flat with her siblings and parents. Her father was a teacher who used to teach Malay and her mother was a nurse. She attended Raffles Girls Primary School for three years before transferring to Bukit View Primary School. When she was 13 years old, Mariam received a MENDAKI Scholarship from then Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Mariam studied at Raffles Girls' School and Raffles Junior College. Mariam obtained a scholarship to study at Stanford University where she earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) and Master of Science (MS) in electrical and electronics engineering in 2000.
Mariam Jaafar | Early life and education
Kristina realised she could sing at the age of 8, particularly singing Mariah Carey songs who she grew up listening to, along with Destiny's Child, Michael Jackson and Prince. During her adolescence, she wrote a diary about how much she wanted to be a singer. She learned piano at 8 but rejected it for her ambitions at singing. Despite that, she used it for writing songs at 14 but rejected the instrument again. In an interview, she claimed that "I always knew when I wrote them on the piano that they were going to need harmonies and percussion and different sounds that weren't piano.
Kristina Miltiadou | Early life
Her sister Nicky once described her as "very much a tomboy" who dreamed about becoming a veterinarian. As a child, she was friends with actress Bijou Phillips and socialites Ivanka Trump, Nicole Richie and Kim Kardashian. Her mother was a close friend of Michael Jackson, with Hilton remarking in an interview: "I grew up around Michael, and anytime he'd have a music video or a concert, he would always invite my family". Growing up in Los Angeles, Hilton attended the Buckley School and St. Paul the Apostle School, finishing elementary school in 1995. Her freshman year of high school (1995–96) was spent at the Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California.
Paris Hilton | Early life
As published in the Miss Earth' official website, Nicolle describes her childhood years as, "In all certainty, my childhood years were one of the best moments of my life. I recall fondly how much I enjoyed attending school, a place where I was surrounded by friends, positive energy, enthusiasm, and fantastic teachers. I had so much encouragement from my parents, letting me know I could accomplish my dreams and push for higher than what I could imagine. My home was very emphatic about education and I was quite studious as well, and while most of my memories during that time have me dressed in my uniform, I remember every night having dinner with my parents and having my father go over my homework.
Nicolle Velez | Early life and career beginnings
Harrison was born in London to actors Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, and raised in Los Angeles and New York, where he attended the Lycée Français. Subsequently, in Britain, he attended Sunningdale School, Harrow School, and Jesus College, Cambridge.
Carey Harrison | Early years and education
Maria dela Cruz was born on November 13, 1993 in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines to Lew Chaney and Evelyn dela Cruz. Dela Cruz move to the United States at age 4 and spent some of her childhood in Roseville, California. Dela Cruz graduated from Granite Bay High School. She played for her high school's basketball and association football team for three years and four years respectively. She later moved to Idaho to study at Idaho State University.
Maria dela Cruz | Early Life and education
(He later was found to be mentally ill.) This changed Maria from the shy child she was and, as a teenager, she became the "class cut-up", figuring she may as well have fun if she was going to get in trouble either way. Despite this change, Maria continued to get good grades.
Maria von Trapp | Early life
Lowell was born in Huntington, New York, the daughter of geologist James Lowell. She spent her childhood living in several countries, including Libya, the Netherlands, and France. In the US she also lived in Houston, Texas and Denver, Colorado, where her family settled when she was 12. After a year at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she considered majoring in literature, she moved to New York City to pursue modeling, and modeled for such clients as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, and at one point attended New York University. She also studied at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Carey Lowell | Early life
When Maria was six years old, she was characterised as "grave, thoughtful, and quiet, to a degree far beyond her years". Soon after their mother's death in 1821, Maria and her sisters grew up largely with the company of one another, preferring to stay away from society. Maria often read the many newspapers bought into the household by their father and revealed her findings to her sisters. Maria was said to have been a precocious child. According to her father, when he asked 10-year-old Maria "what...the best mode of spending time [was]", she answered, "By laying it out in preparation for a happy eternity." He later said that he could speak with Maria on any popular topic of the day as fluently as with an adult, and regretfully recalled her "powerfully intellectual mind".
Maria Brontë | Early life and education
Born in New York City, New York, Green was raised on the Upper West Side with brother Adam by parents Phyllis Newman, an actress and singer, and Adolph Green, a lyricist and playwright. From an early age she was exposed to major talents of Broadway musical theatre, including Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, and Cy Coleman, all of whom were regular guests in the household. At the age of nine, she starred as Maria in her summer camp's production of "West Side Story", and decided to focus on performing.
Amanda Green | Early life
She was educated at home until the age of 17, when she demanded to go to school. She thence attended evening classes in zoology at Chelsea College of Science and Technology and classes during the day in literature at Bedford College, London.
Miriam Rothschild | Early life
Maria Dahvana Headley was born June 21, 1977 in Estacada, Oregon. After graduating from Vallivue High School in Caldwell, Idaho, She attended New York University, where she studied dramatic writing at the Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program.
Maria Dahvana Headley | Early life
Mulcahy was born in Rockville Centre, New York on October 21, 1952. She was the only daughter in her family and attended Catholic school as a child. She received a B.A. in English and Journalism from Marymount College of Fordham University in Tarrytown, New York.
Anne M. Mulcahy | Early life and education
She cites her musical influences as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Etta James, and Luther Vandross.
Pia Toscano | Early life
Cordell was born in Brooklyn, New York. She moved to England, then France, in order to begin her childhood education. "My father's business took him to India when I was a baby," she said, "Then we went to France, and when I was 7 years old I was thrust into a French boarding school." She later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Cathleen Cordell | Early years
Kavanagh was born in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland. Her father was a singer and a saxophonist. She often sang songs at family parties as a child. Her influences include Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Blood, Sweat and Tears, all of whom she listened to from a young age, as well as Bonnie Raitt.
Niamh Kavanagh | Early life
She says she hated school, didn't feel like she fit in and "didn't really get along with anyone", and had no desire to attend college after finishing high school. At age 16 she convinced her parents to allow her to move to Nashville to pursue a career in music. She played open mic nights as often as possible and made connections in the music business. She later moved to Los Angeles in further pursuit of a career in music.
Maty Noyes | Early life
She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn that has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. Aged 18, she moved to her father's home in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others.
Lena Horne | Early life
She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for her postdoctoral research, where she continued her work on ageing and the function of the prefrontal cortex with Mark D'Esposito.
Maria Natasha Rajah | Early life and education
As a teenager, she was educated at Woldingham School in Surrey. Her interest in acting sparked from watching her brother perform in a school production of "The King and I" when she was six. During rehearsals, she pleaded with his teachers to let her be in the play. They let her join the chorus. While enrolled in Woldingham School as a teen, she was heavily involved in theatre. She was the student head of the drama department there, performing in plays and musicals, conducting workshops with younger students, and helping put on productions. When she was 16, she attended a production of "Henry V" starring Kenneth Branagh.
Carey Mulligan | Early life
Marian Cleeves was born in Glendale, California to Dr. Montague Cleeves and Rosa Marian Wamphler Cleeves as the sixth and last child in the family. Her father was an English physician and her mother a Latin teacher at Berkeley High School. Diamond grew up in La Crescenta. She was educated with her siblings near home at La Crescenta grammar school, Clark Junior High, Glendale High School and finally Glendale Community College, before going to University of California, Berkeley. She played tennis at Berkeley, earning a letter.
Marian Diamond | Early life
Her older brother and sister took piano lessons, but Tori did not need them. From the time she could reach the piano, she taught herself to play: when she was two, she could reproduce pieces of music she had only heard once, and, by the age of three, she was composing her own songs. She has described seeing music as structures of light since early childhood, an experience consistent with chromesthesia: At five, she became the youngest student ever admitted to the preparatory division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She studied classical piano at Peabody from 1968 to 1974.
Tori Amos | Early life and education
Though both her parents were orthodox members of the Society of Friends, Thomas' education and European travel led her to question those beliefs and develop a love for music and theater, both of which were forbidden to Orthodox Quakers. This religious questioning led to friction with her mother. Thomas initially attended a Society of Friends school in Baltimore. Minnie had a strong childhood relationship with her cousin, Frank Smith, Hannah Smith's son. The two were almost inseparable until Frank's sudden death in 1872. Minnie became deeply depressed, moving her parents to send her, along with her cousin, Bessie, to the Howland Institute, a Quaker boarding school near Ithaca, New York, in October, 1872.
M. Carey Thomas | Early life
Christina McGeehan was born in New Jersey. She attended Kutztown University, majoring in music.
Ryat | Early life
Franklin was born in Des Moines, Iowa and raised in Fresno, California. She considers Lawrence Bohanon to be her dad , as she never met biological father, Rodney Allen Heard. Franklin grew up attending church and loving music. She started singing at age two, inspired by Bohanon, who played bass guitar in local bands. She also had a passion for acting and dance. When Franklin was eight, she began performing in plays at the Fresno Memorial Auditorium. She was in the concert choir at Central High School, where she was bullied. At fifteen, Franklin became motivated to leave Fresno to pursue a career in entertainment, after her aunt moved to Los Angeles.
Farrah Franklin | Early life
Behruzi was born in 1945 in Tehran to a prominent clergyman. She completed high school and, despite being married at 15, studied at university. She had a son, who was killed in the Iran–Iraq War.
Mariam Behruzi | Early life
Chase was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Los Angeles at two and a half years old. She had a brother, Joseph, and a sister, Leonora (later Leonora Panich). Chase began playing piano by ear at the age of three, and had absolute pitch. She grew up in Boyle Heights, L.A., and studied with Victor Trice, Olga Steeb and Richard Buhlig. She won many piano competitions, and at 13 had her own weekly national radio recital show. She graduated from Roosevelt High School at 17, then attended the Juilliard School of Music in New York on a fellowship.
Mildred Portney Chase | Early life and career
Gatland was born Maria McGuire, to a middle-class family, and lived in the suburb of Churchtown, Dublin. She was one of four siblings (two brothers and a sister). She was educated at St. Anne's School and then University College Dublin, where she studied English language and literature.
Maria Gatland | Early life
She frequently sang and acted in musical theatre as a child. Perri claims to have learned to play piano and guitar because she missed hearing music being played in the house when she moved away. According to Perri, whenever she played the guitar or piano, she would sing and "all of a sudden these songs would appear."
Christina Perri | Early life
Now I'm basically Scots-Irish". Ricci's family moved to Montclair, New Jersey, where she grew up attending Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, Montclair High School, and Morristown–Beard School. She later attended Professional Children's School in New York City. Her siblings are Rafael (born 1971), Dante (born 1974), and Pia (born 1976). Ricci's parents separated when she was a preteen. She has been vocal about her childhood in interviews, particularly her parents' divorce and turbulent relationship with her father.
Christina Ricci | Early life
Eve Marie Shahoian grew up in Oakland, California. She was considered a child vocal prodigy who began performing regularly in the 1980s on television, concerts, symphony, and musical theater. She attended Holy Names University in Oakland and graduated in 2004 with a master's degree in Vocal pedagogy.
Eve Marie Shahoian | Early life
Maria Louise Ewing was born in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. the youngest of four daughters. Her mother, Hermina M. (née Veraar), was Dutch and her father, Norman I. Ewing, was an American of Native American, African American and Scottish ancestry. She graduated from Detroit's Finney High School in 1968. Ewing later studied in Cleveland, Ohio and New York City.
Maria Ewing | Early life and education
As a child, he attended the exclusive Noble and Greenough School. In 1913, when he was 14 years old, his parents decided it was time to send him to Boston's foremost prep school, St. Mark's School, from which he graduated in 1917.
Harry Crosby | Early life
Her family moved frequently because of her father's diplomatic obligation, and lived in places including Illinoi, Beijing, Taiwan and Perth. She began performing at a Christmas Eve Celebration in Illinois, Chicago in 1991 as she was pushed to sing alone on stage by her parents. She recalled the memory on an interview and stated that "It's the night I knew I was going to be a performer". As a child Neonomora suffered from what she calls an ‘ugly-duckling’ period in her life; she was the victim of junior high school bully and her love of music was the major reason she was targeted by bullies.
Neonomora | Early life
Bruce was born Shirley Levy in Manhattan, to Beatrice and Harry Levy. She had a sister, Marilyn. Because of her family's moving, she attended Jamaica High School, Girls' High School, and New Utrecht High School before graduating from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York. Although she studied violin for eight years, she never took singing lessons.
Carol Bruce | Early years
Shea's parents were Irish immigrants. His father was a handyman, and his mother was a stay-at-home mom. At one point he, his parents and siblings all shared a one-bedroom apartment in Sunnyside, Queens. He graduated from Xavier High School in New York City in 1986, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business economics from the State University of New York at Oneonta.
Dermot Shea | Early life and education
Sumner Salter, of Syracuse, New York. Becoming an orphan at an early age, her education was assumed by her aunt and adopted mother, Mrs. Gilbert Lincoln, who sent her to Europe to study piano and composition as a foundation for later vocal study, including the Berlin Music Conservatory, as well as music masters in Paris and Milan, and tutors in India and England. Upon her return to America, Psrcello made her home in New York City. She studied at New York University (graduate woman's law class), and took courses or lectures at Columbia University in New York.
Marie Parcello | Early years and education
Taborah was born on May 30, 1964 in Long Island, New York, U.S. as Taborah Annette Adams. She is the youngest child born to parents Elaine Sutton and George Adams. She has a daughter, two sisters, two half-sisters, two step-sisters and two step-brothers. At age four she began taking dance lessons at the Venettes Cultural Workshop in Wyandanch, New York. She studied tap, African, modern, jazz and ballet for fourteen years, often taking lessons with Maurice and Gregory Hines and Frank Hatchett at Broadway Dance. She also took charm and voice lessons. Taborah was introduced to a variety of music at an early age.
Taborah Adams | Early life
She also studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina and at the University of California, Los Angeles in California.
Janet Hsieh | Early life and education
Maria describes her childhood days via Miss Earth official website as, "I grew up in a small community called Hyltebruk where I went to school. I spent much time and was very active in various sports activities. I practiced tennis, floor ball, soccer and gymnastics. Almost all of my friends I met through these activities, I hung out a lot with them because we had the same interests. I really liked being out in nature, I had a private garden plot when I was little which I took care of all by myself. I remember I used to take the bike when my parents gave me my weekly allowance down to the store where I bought the seeds to grow carrots, radishes and various flowers." She also adds, "When I was little I was a silent and shy girl, the girl who always let everyone go ahead of her, the girl who always let people do better than me, the girl who never dared to do anything.
Maria Taipaleenmäki | Early life
Ariana Rockefeller was born to David Rockefeller, Jr. and Diana Newell Rockefeller. Her hometown is Cambridge, Massachusetts, but she split most of her childhood between New York and Maine. She attended the Ethel Walker School, an all-girls boarding school in Connecticut. Rockefeller interned at the United Nations. She later graduated from Columbia University with an AB in Political Science in 2009.
Ariana Rockefeller | Early life
Mary Brosnan was born in 1906 in New York. She attended the Sacred Heart Convent school and studied art at the National Academy of Design school.
Mary Brosnan | Early life
Fitzgerald grew up in Freehold Township, New Jersey. She attended Freehold High School, in Freehold Borough, then enrolled at Montclair State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications studies. Her parents are Ralph and Linda Fitzgerald; she also has a sister named Kim, and a brother named Joe.
Michele Fitzgerald | Early life
Hamilton was born in Savannah, Georgia. The youngest of three sisters. She sang in a church choir and admired the music of Mariah Carey. Nivea admitted to being shy in a BET “Finding Nivea” interview. She said, “I never wanted anyone to hear me sing... my parents would turn down the radio [and I would automatically stop].”
Nivea (singer) | Early life
Thornton graduated from Camelback High School in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2003. She is of Mexican American descent through her mother, Elia, and African American descent through her father, Theolph Thornton. Thornton has an older sister named Nichole Thornton. Her talent was first discovered at a Papago Elementary School talent show when she sang Mariah Carey's remake of Badfinger's "Without You".
Melody Thornton | Early life
Ramsey was born . She is an only child who grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. She was using computers early, having a website in high school during the 1990s. She attended a performing arts high school, and studied graphic design in college, after trying acting but finding it emotionally painful, and even "abusive". She moved to New York City in 2009 with her future husband when he got a scholarship to study law at St. John's University.
Franchesca Ramsey | Early life and education
Mary Corinne Quintrell was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, the daughter of Thomas Quintrell and Emma Brewer Quintrell. She moved to the United States with her parents as a child, and grew up in Cleveland. She was the first girl to graduate from Cleveland Central High School, in 1857. Among her schoolmates were Mark Hanna and John D. Rockefeller.
Mary Corinne Quintrell | Early life and education
O'Connor was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first child of six to Marie Roberts O'Connor and Raymond O'Connor. She grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her mother graduated from the University of Connecticut and was a forward on the women's basketball team. She had a career as an RN and after earning her MS at Fairfield University, became a nursing professor. Her father Raymond graduated from Fairfield University where he was President of the Glee Club and later earned his MS. He had a career teaching science in Fairfield, Connecticut public schools.
Mary Anne O'Connor | Early life
She started performing at weddings, church choir and charity events. When Aaliyah was five years old, her family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she was raised along with her older brother, Rashad. She attended a Catholic school, Gesu Elementary, where in first grade she was cast in the stage play "Annie," which inspired her to become an entertainer. In Detroit, her father began working in the warehouse business, one of his brother-in-law Barry Hankerson's widening interests. Her mother stayed home and raised Aaliyah and her brother. Throughout Aaliyah's life, she had a good relationship with Rashad, who recalled Aaliyah having a beautiful voice as a child.
Aaliyah | Early life
She had $25 in her bank account; her parents "vowed not to spend a penny on [her] college education". She graduated as co-valedictorian with a 4.16 grade point average and was accepted by Georgetown University, where she planned to major in government and African-American studies.
Brooklyn Owen | Early life/education
Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia in 1969 and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating with a Master of Music degree from the University of Canterbury. She completed further studies in the USA, gaining a Master of Arts from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was also a lecturer. Her teachers have included Stephen Hartke, Erica Muhl, James Hopkins, and Morten Lauridsen in Los Angeles, and Joseph Schwantner and Samuel Adler in New York City.
Maria Grenfell | Early life and education
Bottrell was born in London, Ontario. She began singing in her family's band at age eleven. At age 17 she left school to start a career as a singer.
Marie Bottrell | Early life and education
Barrymore grew up on Poinsettia Place in West Hollywood until the age of 7, when she moved to Sherman Oaks. In her 2015 memoir, "Wildflower", she says she talks "like a valley girl" because she grew up in Sherman Oaks. She moved back to West Hollywood upon becoming emancipated at 14. Barrymore attended elementary school at Fountain Day School in West Hollywood and Country School. In the wake of her sudden stardom, Barrymore endured a notoriously troubled childhood. She was a regular at the racy Studio 54 as a young girl, and her nightlife and constant partying became a popular subject with the media.
Drew Barrymore | Childhood
Carey has said that from childhood she has been influenced by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and R&B and soul musicians such as Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin. Her music contains strong influences of gospel music, and she credits the Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar and Edwin Hawkins as the most influential in her early years. When Carey incorporated hip hop into her sound, speculation arose that she was making an attempt to take advantage of the genre's popularity, but she told "Newsweek", "People just don't understand. I grew up with this music." She has expressed appreciation for rappers such as the Sugarhill Gang, Eric B.
Mariah Carey | Influences
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and as a child moved with her family to Lakewood, New Jersey where she learned the piano. While at school, she began writing poetry and song lyrics.
Beverly Ross | Early life
U.S. Representative Tom Rooney and former Florida State Representative Patrick Rooney Jr. are her cousins. After graduating from Fox Lane High School in 2003, she went to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in South America for four months as part of the Traveling School, an open learning environment. She attended George Washington University for a year and then transferred to New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she studied psychology, international social policy and nonprofits, graduating in 2010.
Rooney Mara | Early life
She stayed at the Colegio until she finished her elementary education.
María Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo | Early life and education
Katorah Marrero was born on April 3, 1992, in New York, New York. Her mother is Jamaican, and her father is Puerto Rican. Her father was incarcerated when she was 1 and spent approximately 10 years behind bars and was not released until she was 11. With the absence of her father, Young M.A grew close to her brother, Kenneth Ramos, and her mother. When Marrero was 7, her mother decided to relocate to Chesterfield, Virginia, as it provided better school facilities and also her children would remain away from the violence of East New York. In Virginia, she started to play tackle football.
Young M.A | Early life
Temtchine grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in New York City. She studied at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Chloe Temtchine | Early life
Farris was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the daughter of Larraine (Wall) and Richard Farris, both of who had musical talents and aspirations, and named Dionne for their favorite singer Dionne Warwick. Farris was raised in Bordentown, New Jersey by her single mother, whose side of the family introduced her to the musical acts that shaped and influenced her. Farris was a huge fan of Diana Ross as a child – one of Farris’ fonder memories was attending a Ross concert in Manhattan at the age of eight, being lifted by her uncle onstage, and getting kissed by the superstar.
Dionne Farris | Early life
While at Howland, Minnie decided to dress as a man in the school's opera, which made her mother very upset, for it was "repugnant to her taste." It was here that Miss Slocum, a teacher at Howland, influenced Minnie to study education, rather than medicine. Thomas hoped to enter Cornell University to pursue further education, but met with her father's objections. After a great deal of pleading from both Thomas and her mother, her father relented.
M. Carey Thomas | Early life
Todd Carey was born and raised in Winnetka, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. He is the first of two children born to Christine, a teacher/fashion designer, and Richard, an attorney. Growing up, his mother would not let him or his sister watch television but would encourage Carey's interest in music. His mother was a former musician, having attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for music education. His father was also a music lover and collected music, introducing Carey to artists like Stevie Wonder and Miles Davis at a young age. Carey's own interest in music began as a child and he credits Elvis Presley, The Beatles for inspiring him to learn to play guitar.
Todd Carey | Early life
Born Maria Helen Bella Avenila Santamaria on September 17, 1949, Reyes was the elder of two children. Her early years were difficult. At age fifteen, she ran away from her home and was known to skip school to join singing contests while in high school at Santa Isabel College. After studying Fine Arts at St. Scholastica College, she joined the Circus band, which would lead her to overnight success.
Didith Reyes | Early life
She attended Hollywood School for Girls, a private school in Los Angeles.
Irene Mayer Selznick | Early life
Francis Preparatory School in Queens before attending St. John's University. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II, where he earned the honor of being the youngest Naval Captain during the war. He served as captain of an oil tanker transporting gasoline for the Army between England and France.
Martin T. Carey | Early life