Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Referred to as the “Songbird Supreme” and the “Queen of Christmas”, she is known for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, songwriting, and signature use of the whistle register. Carey’s subsequent musical releases followed the trend that began with Daydream.
Carey’s music began relying less on pop and adult contemporary-tinged balladry and instead incorporating heavy elements of hip-hop and R&B. On Butterfly, Carey collaborated with a bevvy of producers other than Afanasieff, such as Sean Combs, Q-Tip, Missy Elliott, Jean Claude Oliver, and Samuel Barnes from Trackmasters.
What ethnicity is Mariah Carey?
Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1969, in Huntington, New York. Carey’s ethnicity is African-American and black Venezuelan-American Her name was derived from the song “They Call the Wind Maria”, originally from the 1951 Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon. 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 she was a classically trained opera singer, Patricia Carey never pressured her daughter to pursue a career in classical opera. Mariah 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.
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