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.
Early life
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey | Early life
Racial tensions prevented the Carey family from integrating into their community though she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature in school. Her mother's family disowned her mother for marrying a black man. Racial tensions prevented the Carey family from integrating into their community. 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. During her years in elementary school, she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature. During her years in elementary school, she excelled in the arts, such as music and literature
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She is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
She cites her musical influences as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Etta James, and Luther Vandross.
Pia Toscano | Early life
Maria strongly disapproved of her son's desire to become a professional singer.
Abraham Quintanilla | Early life
As a young girl singing along with The Supremes, Melissa aspired to be more like Mary Wilson rather than Diana Ross because she loved singing harmonies.
Etta Britt | 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
Since then she has hosted a music show for kids for 2 seasons titled "Lets Sing With Kiddy". She has also performed on Mariah Carey wedding renewal ceremony at Reethi Rah resort.
Unoosha | Early life
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Known for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, and signature use of the whistle register, she is referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by "Guinness World Records". She rose to fame in 1990 with her eponymous debut album, released under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, who married her three years later. Carey is the first artist in history to have their first five singles reach number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100, from "Vision of Love" to "Emotions". She achieved worldwide success with follow-up albums "Music Box" (1993), "Merry Christmas" (1994), and "Daydream" (1995).
Mariah Carey | Introduction
Kelly was born on February 13, 1981 in Gainesville, Georgia. He later moved to Atlanta when he was 19, and started doing drag in the ballroom scene. He is biracial.
Mariah Paris Balenciaga | 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
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
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
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
Maria McKee was born in Los Angeles in 1964. She grew up in a bohemian family and is the half-sister of Bryan MacLean, who had been the guitarist and vocalist for the 1960s psychedelic band, Love (he died in 1998 at age 51).
Maria McKee | Early life
Carey Thomas, as she preferred to be called later in life (she was known as Minnie to her family as a child), was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 2, 1857. She was the daughter of James Carey Thomas and Mary Whitall Thomas. She was conceived "in full daylight," because her father, a doctor, thought this would diminish the chance of his wife miscarrying. Her family included many prominent Quakers, including her uncle and aunt Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, and her cousins Alys Pearsall Smith (first wife of Bertrand Russell) and Mary Smith Berenson Costelloe (who married Bernard Berenson).
M. Carey Thomas | Early life
Born in Vienna in 1914, she came to America in 1940. She is the daughter of Egon Bergson and Therese Bergson. She was an actress prior to moving to America.
Maria Bergson | Early life and education
Her grandmother played piano and sang for the USO Troops in Jacksonville, Florida, and her father sang and traveled internationally with the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. She began her modeling career at age 13 winning a Long Island beauty contest. She was the first black Ms. Long Island Pre-Teen and went on to entering and winning beauty contest until graduating from high school. She continued with runway and print ad modeling.
Taborah Adams | Early life
Baharum was born in 1935 in Singapore. She was the sister of another Malay film actress, Datin Saadiah, and the mother of pop singer, Rahimah Rahim.
Mariam Baharum | Early life
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
Carey began dating Tommy Mottola while recording "Music Box", and married him on June 5, 1993. After the release of "Daydream" and the success that followed, Carey began focusing on her personal life, which was a constant struggle at the time. Carey's relationship with Mottola began to deteriorate, due to their growing creative differences in terms of her albums, as well as his controlling nature. On May 30, 1997, the couple announced their separation, with their divorce finalized by the time Mottola remarried on December 2, 2000. Carey was in a three-year relationship with singer Luis Miguel from 1998 to 2001.
Mariah Carey | Personal life
Maria was born in Uganda, raised in both Denmark and East Africa. At an early age while living and going to school in Copenhagen, Denmark, she enrolled in a beauty pageant contest, came up third runner up and has been modeling since then.
Mariah Matovu | 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
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
"Even in those days without microphones, my high piping voice carried all over the square. I have always thought that I inherited my carrying voice from my father." (p. 19)
Mary Martin | Early life
became her mentor.
Maria Antònia Salvà i Ripoll | Early life
Mary Christine Brockert was born on March 5, 1956, in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of construction worker Thomas Leslie Brockert and home renovator Mary Anne. She spent her early childhood in Mission Hills, California. She said that her ethnic heritage was Portuguese, Italian, Irish, and American Indian. In 2005, while visiting Louisiana, she discovered that her paternal ancestors once lived in New Orleans. She took to singing naturally, performing Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song" by age two. When she was eight years old, her parents began sending Teena on auditions which, among other things, netted her an acting role on "The Beverly Hillbillies", credited as Tina Marie Brockert.
Teena Marie | 1956–1978: Early life and career beginnings
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
He was born on 10 January 1928, in Columbus, Ohio.
Richard E. Carey | 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
Martin was born in Weatherford, Texas. Her life as a child, as she describes it in her autobiography "My Heart Belongs", was secure and happy. She had close relationships with both of her parents as well as her siblings. Her autobiography details how the young actress had an instinctive ear for recreating musical sounds. Martin's father, Preston Martin, was a lawyer, and her mother, Juanita Presley, was a violin teacher. Although the doctors told Juanita that she would risk her life if she attempted to have another baby, she was determined to have a boy. Instead, she had Mary, who became quite a tomboy.
Mary Martin | 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
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
Close friends of Maria Lavalle Urbina describe how influential her family and upbringing were to her development.
María Lavalle Urbina | Early life
Born Shirley Ann Agin on October 26, 1922 in the Bronx, New York, United States, Charlot began her singing career at an early age. She moved to Los Angeles as a young girl and quickly found success as a singer, which was followed by acting roles in plays and movies.
Juli Lynne Charlot | Early life
Farrell cites artists Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera as her biggest influences.
Gia Farrell | Early life
This constant involvement in music would lead to her singing career in the mid-1920s.
Helen Humes | Early life
Encouraged by her stepfather, Dr Hamilton Griffin, at 14 she was sent to New York for ten lessons with the actor George Vandenhoff, her only professional training.
Mary Anderson (actress, born 1859) | Early life
She was born in 1930, in Washington, New Jersey. She received a bachelor's degree in music from Murray State University, Kentucky in 1951 and did graduate work at Western Kentucky University.
Mary A. Marsh | Early life
In the early 1980s, her English father (from north London), Ronald, visited Australia. He met and married Rosie's mother Carol, and the family moved to Pontardawe near Swansea when Rosie was four, to be near Ronald's parents who had moved from London to South Wales for work prior to retiring. Ribbons reportedly wanted to be a pop singer since she was eight years old. A big fan of Mariah Carey, she learned to mimic her singing, and also started to write her own songs. She lost interest during her final school year, passing only two GCSEs, English and Drama.
Rosie Ribbons | Early life
in music history and an M.F.A. in creative writing.
Lee Ann Roripaugh | 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
Cino, whose family is Italian American, was born in Buffalo, New York. She attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through college.
Maria Cino | Early life
His performance emboldened her and reinforced her belief that she wanted to pursue a career in acting. She wrote a letter to Branagh asking him for advice. "I explained that my parents didn't want me to act, but that I felt it was my vocation in life," she said. Branagh's sister replied: "Kenneth says that if you feel such a strong need to be an actress, you must be an actress."
Carey Mulligan | Early life
Toh was born in Shanghai, China, in 1940 of a family from Xiamen, the family returned to Gulangyu Island shortly after her birth. In 1948 at the age of 8, she won first prize in the Hong Kong Music Competition and in 1952 at the age of 12 went to Westonbirt School, a boarding school in England.
Patsy Toh | Early life
Grant was born in Quebec City, Quebec.
Maria Grant | Early life
Maria Mena was born into an artistic family. Her mother is a playwright and her father is a drummer. Both Maria and her brother, Tony, are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story". Her mother is Norwegian and her father is an American of Afro-Nicaraguan descent. Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Mena to write and record her own music. When Mena was nine years old, her parents divorced. She suffered from depression and developed an eating disorder. When Mena was 13 years old, she moved to live with her father. She sang and wrote lyrics as a form of self-soothing.
Maria Mena | Early life
citizen and moved to New York City where she lived for the rest of her life.
María Grever | Early life
Her formal education lasted a meagre two years, though by then she was already able to read and write. As her mother had illegitimate children, her family was excluded from Catholic Church. Nevertheless, she never stopped considering herself a Catholic. For instance, she often made biblical references and praises to God in her diary: ""I dreamt I was an angel. My dress was billowing and had long pink sleeves. I went from earth to heaven. I put stars in my hands and played with them. I talked to the stars. They put on a show in my honor. They danced around me and made a luminous path.
Carolina Maria de Jesus | Early life
Later, she studied with Luigi Vannuccini in Florence, Italy.
Mary Howe (singer) | Early years
& Rakim, the Wu-Tang Clan, The Notorious B.I.G. and Mobb Deep, with whom she collaborated on the single "The Roof (Back in Time)" (1998). Carey was heavily influenced by Minnie Riperton, and began experimenting with the whistle register due to her original practice of the range. She has also called Marilyn Monroe one of her idols. During Carey's career, her vocal and musical style, along with her level of success, has been compared to Whitney Houston, whom she has also cited as an influence, and Celine Dion. Carey and her peers, according to Garry Mulholland, are "the princesses of wails [...] virtuoso vocalists who blend chart-oriented pop with mature MOR torch song." Author and writer Lucy O'Brien attributed the comeback of Barbra Streisand's "old-fashioned showgirl" to Carey and Dion, and described them and Houston as "groomed, airbrushed and overblown to perfection." Carey's musical transition and use of more revealing clothing during the late 1990s were, in part, initiated to distance herself from this image, and she subsequently said that most of her early work was "schmaltzy MOR." Some have noted that unlike Houston and Dion, Carey writes and produces her own music.
Mariah Carey | Influences
The seventh of thirteen children, Giberne was born in Clapton, London in 1802, the daughter of wine merchant Mark Giberne and Rebecca Sharp.
Maria Giberne | Early life
Norah Mary Hutman was born on 29 October 1876, in Ireland. She received her formal education in institutions in around the world, mainly Belgium, Oxford University and Sydney.
Norah Richards | Early life and education
Carey's three-year relationship with Latin singer Luis Miguel ended. In July 2001, Carey suffered a physical and emotional breakdown. She began posting a series of disturbing messages on her official website, and displayed erratic behavior on several live promotional outings. On July 19, 2001, Carey made a surprise appearance on the MTV program "Total Request Live" (TRL). As the show's host Carson Daly began taping following a commercial break, Carey came out pushing an ice cream cart while wearing a large men's shirt, and began a striptease, in which she revealed a tight yellow and green ensemble. Days later, she posted irregular voice notes on her website: "I'm trying to understand things in life right now and so I really don't feel that I should be doing music right now.
Mariah Carey | 2001–2004: Personal and professional struggles, "Glitter" and "Charmbracelet"
She was also given the Susan Steinfeld Award for her excellence in the theatre program.
Maria Manuela Goyanes | Early life
Rosen further exemplified Carey's influence by drawing a parallel with American Idol, which to her, "often played out as a clash of melisma-mad Mariah wannabes. And, today, nearly 20 years after Carey's debut, major labels continue to bet the farm on young stars such as the winner of Britain's X Factor show, Leona Lewis, with her Generation Next gloss on Mariah's big voice and big hair." "New York Magazine's" editor Roger Deckker further commented that "Whitney Houston may have introduced melisma (the vocally acrobatic style of lending a word an extra syllable or twenty) to the charts, but it was Mariah—with her jaw-dropping range—who made it into America's default sound." Deckker also added that "Every time you turn on American Idol, you are watching her children." As Professor Katherine L.
Mariah Carey | Legacy
A Chelmsford, Massachusetts native, Meghan Toohey started writing music at the age of 5 when her parents bought her a playback organ for her birthday. She is the daughter of an English teacher and a music teacher, which contributed to her love of melody and lyric.
Meghan Toohey | Early life
Maria was born to a father who is a bartender and a housewife mother. Maria came from a very modest family and according to her mother, they did not spoil her that much.
Maria Chudakova | Early life and family
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
At the suggestion of the singers and musicians she worked with, she continued to sing professionally since 2010.
Mohammad Reza Moghaddam | 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
Mariama Jalloh was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. At the age of one she moved with her family to Germany, Bergisch Gladbach, the home of her mother. At sixteen, she began to write her own songs accompanied with her acoustic guitar. Two years later, she gained her first stage experience by performing in a musical.
Mariama Jalloh | Life
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")
Maria was born and raised in Nesna. She taught herself to play guitar and began performing at local concerts at age 14.
Ida Maria | Early life
She was born Mary Ellen Harrison on April 4, 1896, probably in Indiana. She sang in vaudeville and movie theaters in Chicago around 1914. The dancer Vernon Castle introduced her to the theater community in New York City, where she debuted in the Irving Berlin revue "Stop! Look! Listen!" in 1915.
Marion Harris | Early life
After singing for a time in Monrovia, she then left for the United States in 1968 to study journalism.
Miatta Fahnbulleh (singer) | 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
At the age of 16, with both parents' consent, she officially changed her name to Norah Jones. Jones always had an affinity for the music of Bill Evans and Billie Holiday, among other "oldies". She once said, "My mom had this eight-album Billie Holiday set; I picked out one disc that I liked and played that over and over again".
Norah Jones | Early life
Maria Wyke was born in London in 1957 to a Mexican mother and an Australian father. She was educated at Catholic schools and studied classics at Somerville College, Oxford (1976–1980). She subsequently completed her PhD at King's College, Cambridge.
Maria Wyke | Early life
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
When her father discovered her musical talent, he had her sing songs he had written to his mistresses; she found these songs were of poor quality and helped her distinguish between good and bad music. She further developed her repertoire with traditional and rock music on the radio, and recalls singing in competitions at age seven, knowing 300 boleros by eight, and making records by nine.
Tania Libertad | Early life
Baouardy was born on 5 January 1846 (the eve of Epiphany) in the Galilean village of Hurfiesh, later moved to I’billin, in Palestine during the Ottoman Empire, to Giries (George) Baouardy and his wife, Mariam Chahine. Mariam was their 13th child and first daughter, and none of her preceding brothers had survived infancy. She was born after the couple made a pilgrimage on foot to Bethlehem, some 70 miles away, out of desperation after the loss of their children. When they were later blessed with the birth of a daughter, they named her after the Virgin Mary, out of gratitude.
Mariam Baouardy | Early life
Carey is regarded as a pop icon and has been labeled a "diva" for her stardom and persona. She stated "I have had diva moments, and then people can't handle it. I guess it's a little intense, because I come from a true diva: My mother is an opera singer. And that's a real diva, you know - Juilliard diva. And I mean it as a compliment, or I wouldn't be the person I am without experiencing that." In the late 1990s, after separating from Mottola, Carey adopted a more provocative and less conservative image than had been previously seen and began wearing more revealing clothes.
Mariah Carey | Public image
She was born Marian Ann Borris in Detroit, Michigan. She had dreams of becoming a Hollywood actress, but instead moved to New York to work as a researcher for the Republican Party.
Marian Javits | Early life
Doyle was born in Clontarf, Dublin, before moving with her parents, sister, and brother, Feargal, to Enniscorthy, County Wexford, for her father's career as a broker. They eventually settled in Bray, County Wicklow, and she still claims a close, personal connection with the town. She began singing early in life and comes from a family that appreciates "party pieces" and the tradition of gathering friends together with singing. At the age of 9 or 10, she would go to a friend's house every Sunday evening to listen to the top-20 broadcast on the radio. Her first experience singing in public was at one of her parents' parties at the age of 13.
Maria Doyle Kennedy | Early life
Olsen was born on July 22, 1966, in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Maria Olsen | Early life
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
Corday was born in Santa Monica, California. Wanting a career in films, she came to Hollywood while still in her teens and found work as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. Her physical beauty brought jobs as a photographer's model that led to a bit part as a showgirl in the 1951 film "Two Tickets to Broadway".
Mara Corday | Early life
Although the re-release of her 2002 album "Charmbracelet" was issued with a Parental Advisory warning in some territories, "Me. I Am Mariah..." is Carey's first studio album to bear the warning in the United States. Alternate edited versions were also released for the standard and deluxe versions of the album.
Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse | Introduction
Carey was born on May 20, 1916 in Hollister, California.
Bill Carey (songwriter) | Early life
Crazy personal," Henderson continued calling the album's lyrical content an "deliberately confusing innocence with insight, obliviousness with bliss." Carey's voice on the album was described by Elysa Gardner of "USA Today", as "artful melisma, robust belting and decorative high notes." Gardner continued, noting Mariah's use of her "supple middle and lower registers to convey feeling simply and directly."
Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse | Music and lyrics
Maria Farneti was born at Forlì, the daughter of Domenico Farneti and Clementina Babini. She studied voice with Virginia Gazzuoli, at the Liceo Rossini in Pesaro.
Maria Farneti | Early life
Born in 1944 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Angélica María is the daughter of American entrepreneur, Arnold Hartman, and theater producer, Angélica de Jesús Ortiz Sandoval. Following the divorce of her parents at the age of 5, María moved to Mexico City with her mother.
Angélica María | Early life
Annie Burns was from Springfield, Missouri, United States.
Mary Stafford (singer) | Early life
She was proud of her long blond hair, and spent hours before her mirror, posing and arranging her clothes. However, at the age of 16 she was inspired by a mystical vision and began to break out from her sheltered upbringing.
Maria De Mattias | Early years
After New York she traveled to Los Angeles, and produced, performed in, and/or directed numerous theater shows, including the acclaimed and long-running musical ""A...My Name is Alice"".
Maria Burton | Early life and education
Yatrakis was born in Brooklyn Heights to Greek immigrant parents.
Maria Yatrakis | Early life
The memoir became a #1 New York Times Best Seller after its first week of release.
The Meaning of Mariah Carey | Introduction
He had property everywhere. The local movie theater on Main Street and the pool hall opposite belonged to him. Our 10-room, a terracotta-brick house stood high on a hill overlooking the reservation." The family spent summers in Colorado Springs to escape the Oklahoma heat. Life was far from perfect, though, as her father was a binge drinker and her parents often fought about money. Tallchief had five siblings, three from her father's first marriage to a German immigrant: Alexander; Frances (1913–1999); and Thomas (1919–1981), who played football for the University of Oklahoma, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers; Gerald (1922–1999), who was injured in childhood when kicked in the head by a horse and never regained normal cognitive function.
Maria Tallchief | Early life
Diana-Maria Uhlenbrock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Maria (née Riva) and Chris B. Uhlenbrock, a dentist. She attended St. Ursula Academy and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Diana-Maria Riva | Early life
As a young girl, she was "steeped in early jazz—from '20s and '30s recordings by her father's orchestras to '40s and '50s R&B." She was also enamored with country music—including the early George Jones, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Merle Haggard—as she liked "anything that swings."
Catherine Russell (singer) | Early life
It also became Carey's 16th top ten album in the United States. The album debuted at number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it only the second Christmas album to top this chart. Following the birth of her children, Carey began work on her fourteenth studio album.
Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse | Background
There, she studied with Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, then with the highly regarded Ivana Chubbuck at her studio.
Laura Cayouette | Early life