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.
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Mariah Carey
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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
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
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 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
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
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
Grant was born in Quebec City, Quebec.
Maria Grant | 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
Annie Burns was from Springfield, Missouri, United States.
Mary Stafford (singer) | 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
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
Gina was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles.
Gina Carey | 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
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
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 cites her musical influences as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Etta James, and Luther Vandross.
Pia Toscano | 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
Freire was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
María Freire | Early life
Later, she studied with Luigi Vannuccini in Florence, Italy.
Mary Howe (singer) | Early years
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
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
Cino, whose family is Italian American, was born in Buffalo, New York. She attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through college.
Maria Cino | 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
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
Jordana was born and raised in Old Bridge, New Jersey. She grew up listening to New Kids on the Block and Whitney Houston. She wrote her first song at age seven; by the time she was in her teens she was already writing songs for her high school's musicals. She moved to New York City at 17 and continued to write and play around the city.
Elisa Jordana | Early 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
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
Olsen was born on July 22, 1966, in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Maria Olsen | Early life
Quarles was born in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1991 she moved with her mother to Los Angeles, California where she continues to live and work.
Christina Quarles | 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
Carey was born on May 20, 1916 in Hollister, California.
Bill Carey (songwriter) | Early life
She was born and raised in Harlem, New York City.
Maxine Lewis | Early life
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
He was born on 10 January 1928, in Columbus, Ohio.
Richard E. Carey | Early life
Little is known about Anna Maria Lane's early life, though it is believed she may be from New Hampshire. By 1776, she had married John Lane.
Anna Maria Lane | Early life
citizen and moved to New York City where she lived for the rest of her life.
María Grever | 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
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
Trainor was born in San Francisco, California. She attended San Diego State University, where she studied broadcast journalism.
Mary Ellen Trainor | Early life
Born Patricia Mary Donnelly in Durand, Michigan, she was a singer in grade school and on radio programs, and she began singing with a band soon after she finished high school. She also worked as a model for Hudson's department store.
Patricia Donnelly | Early years
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
On June 20, 1902, Powers was born in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. At 17, Powers left home to study singing in Milan, Italy.
Marie Powers | Early life
Charles was born in London as Maria Zena Schneider, the daughter of David and Celia Schneider.
Maria Charles | Early life
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
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
became her mentor.
Maria Antònia Salvà i Ripoll | Early life
in music history and an M.F.A. in creative writing.
Lee Ann Roripaugh | Early life
Yatrakis was born in Brooklyn Heights to Greek immigrant parents.
Maria Yatrakis | Early life
Plunkett was born to an Indian mother from Uganda. Plunkett grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Plunkett began writing music when she was a child in Massachusetts. Plunkett attended Kenyon College.
Half Waif | Early life
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
Stewart was born in Los Angeles, California.
Lynne Marie Stewart | Early life
Mary Ellen Carroll was born in Danville, Illinois.
Mary Ellen Carroll | Early life and education
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
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
Lewis was born in New Zealand on the South Island before moving to the Gold Coast, Queensland.
Maria Lewis | Early life and education
Maria was born in Boone County, West Virginia, where she continues to reside. She is a Cherokee native. Her family has lived in the West Virginia for generations, and she comes from a long line of coal miners.
Maria Gunnoe | 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
Marion Donoghue was born in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Daniel Charles Donoghue.
Lady Marion Chesham | 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
Born to John Cornelius (an engineer) and Mary Alice (Hughes) Carey in New Brighton, England, Carey was brought to the United States as a baby and lived in California, becoming a naturalised citizen in 1955.
Mary Virginia Carey | Biography
I had to make my exit and say 'Mariah, you need to redefine yourself, that's fine. I'm here doing what I do and if and when you want to come back and do it again, I'm here. "My All" was written in Carey's home-studio in upstate New York, and was recorded in Afanasieff's recording studio in San Francisco. After she presented him with the melody she had developed in Puerto Rico, he began playing chords on the piano, while Carey sang the tune and directed him. After they produced the chorus, Carey wrote the lyrics, while he added a drum groove to the basic melody.
My All | Recording
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
Mitzeva graduated in 1957 from the National School of Music Sofia, Bulgaria.
Maria Mitzeva | Early life
Anhayla was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and began singing at the age of 5. She started writing music on the piano in middle school and credits her mother as a being a musical influence. Anhayla attended Virginia Commonwealth University and studied accounting.
Anhayla | 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
She was born in Coonabarabran, Australia and is a descendant of the Gamilaraay people of northern New South Wales.
R e a (artist) | Early life
Norah Drewett was born in Sutton, London in 1882. She studied piano under Alphonse Duvernoy at the Conservatoire de Paris, with composer Bernhard Stavenhagen in Münich, and with Leonid Kreutzer in Berlin.
Norah Drewett de Kresz | Early life
Morffitt claims the song personally helped him get through difficult moments when "the answers seemed so far away". Following her taped performance of "One Sweet Day" at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California during The Adventures of Mimi Tour, Carey described the song's importance to her and her fans:
Hero (Mariah Carey song) | Composition and lyrical content
Farrell cites artists Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera as her biggest influences.
Gia Farrell | Early life
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
Born and raised in Rome, New York, at age 16 she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she began her music career, and then relocated to Austin, Texas in 1982.
Christine Albert | Early life
Johnson grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She got her start singing in church.
Rebekah Johnson | Early life
Perez de Tagle was born in San Francisco, California, and is of Filipino ancestry.
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle | Early life
Harriet Medley was born in Brick Lane, London, the daughter of Edward Medley (a baker) and Harriet Sanders Medley.
Harriet McIlquham | Early 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")
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
Mary Ann Crawford was born in Girard, Illinois.
Mary Ann Crawford | Early life
Dalya was born August 3, 1918 in New York City.
Jacqueline Dalya | 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
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
Born in Perth, Western Australia.
Shazalee Ramlee | 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
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
Frederick was born in Burbank, California in 1947. She was raised in Florida, but later moved back to California where she attended Palos Verdes High School. She began writing her own songs on guitar and piano from the age of 15.
Robin Frederick | Early life
In 1988, an 18-year-old Mariah Carey moved out from her mother's house in Long Island and into an apartment in Manhattan. She had composed a four-track demo tape with her writing partner Ben Margulies while she was attending high school. As 1988 progressed, Carey struggled to impress record executives with the tape and had failed in securing a record deal. She worked several jobs, including as a waitress and coat-checker, in order to pay for studio sessions with Margulies to make changes to the demo. After several months, Carey befriended singer Brenda K. Starr, and soon became one of her back-up vocalists.
Someday (Mariah Carey song) | Background
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
Strahm was born on October 10, 1990, in a suburb of Detroit. She began writing songs at age 11 but did not share them with anyone until she was 17. At age 21 she chose to move to Nashville after college to pursue music as a career.
Fleurie (musician) | Early life
Marian Adele Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Stephen Longfellow and Marianne Preble Longfellow. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was her uncle. Her grandfather, William Pitt Preble, was a judge and diplomat.
Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue | Early life
Ryan was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received an honors BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at The Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting School.
Marja-Lewis Ryan | 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
From 1922 she lived in Yaroslavl, where she taught school and attended Writers' Union meetings; her poetry began to be appreciated there.
Maria Petrovykh | Early life
Foy was born in Los Angeles, California.
Mary Foy (librarian) | 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
Browne was born in San Luis Obispo, California, She attended Los Angeles City College.
Kathie Browne | 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
Gladys Shaskan was born in Lawrence, New York to George Fried and Fannie Shaskan. She began writing at an early age. Her first efforts were primarily poetry and before graduating from high school she had had several items of her light verse published by Walter Winchell and other newspaper columnists. After high school, she moved to Manhattan, enrolling at Columbia University and working for a time as an actress and dancer. She began writing song lyrics in the late 1930s. Correspondence between Kelly Tucker, Editor of "Where – New York" and David Malone, "Talk Back" of BBC in Belfast shows that "Talk Back" did a one hour documentary about Gladys Shelley.
Gladys Shelley | Early life
Monica Ross was born in Lancashire, England, on 26 November 1950.
Monica Ross | Early life