Born
the daughter of a voice coach and opera singer, Mariah
got her name from a lyric in a song. With her mothers
vocation it perhaps isn’t surprising that she became
a singer when she grew up. Writing all of her own music,
Mariah graduated in 1987 from Harborfields High School
in Greenlawn, New York and lives the life of a successful
musician. Not many know that she started her career working
as a waitress (and other such jobs) while trying to get
noticed as a singer.
Mariah did get noticed of course; a man from CBS records
met her during a party and soon she was handing out demo-tapes.
Columbia Records eventually got a hold of one and gave
her the chance of a lifetime. She released a self titled
album in 1990, followed by another in 1992 and so on;
by 1998 she had thirteen number one hits. Mariah, known
for her tortuous music tours and hell-bent-for-leather
schedule eventually began to buckle, and in 2001 she was
admitted into a New York-area hospital and put under psychiatric
care after suffering what her publicists reported as a
"physical and emotional collapse." Soon after
her release she began to change record companies, then
go back on tour.
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