Mariah Carey Biography

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1972 when Carey was still three. After her parents divorce, Carey and Morgan stayed with their mother while Alison stayed with their father. From this point on, she lived away from her father and had little contact with him, except for occasional visits on weekends but even those dwindled as the years went by. Life must go on somehow and so Patricia who raised Carey had to struggle with two or three jobs and continuing to move among different towns on Long Island, but tried to provide a spirited, loving household.

Has from her early age a good vocal quality, Carey began singing when she was three and it happened by accident that her mother realized early on she had tremendous potential. One day when her mother was rehearsing her role of Maddalena in Verdi's Opera Rigolettos, she heard Carey imitating her singing perfectly. Since then, her mother began teaching her how to develop her vocal skills, despite the fact that she was only three years old. So, during the year of 1974, Patricia nurtured her daughter's talent by coaching her at home without trying to force the issue too much. In fact, the intense vocal lessons yes pushed Carey ...

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to make her public singing debut. She first performed in public when she was six; sang for friends, and performed in talent shows and at folk-music festivals. The minor performances kept continuing, 'till 16-year-old Carey entered Oldfield Middle School and started to find a new interest. By that time, she had begun to write her own songs, an activity that really captivated her attention that she didn't concentrate much on her education, would frequently skip classes, write songs instead and dream about becoming a famous singer. When she enrolled at the Harborfield High School, she started traveling back and forth to Manhattan in order to study music with professionals. That's the one and only reason why she rarely showed up for class, because of which she was jokingly named "Mirage" by her high school friends. Hardly wishing to break into the music business, Carey took part-time job after school, singing on demo tapes at Long Island studios.

Before she got her big break, Carey already completed 500 hours of beauty school, worked as a hair sweeper in a salon, and also worked as a waitress and as a coat check girl. In the year of 1986, as to celebrate her ...