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On March 27, 1969, Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York. Mariah, who is of Venezuelan and African-American origin and whose parents are an opera singer of Irish descent and an aerospace engineer, started singing when she was just three years old. Later, as a teenager, she worked as Brenda Starr's backup vocalist. Here are intriguing facts about Mariah Carey that you might not have heard. Everyone knows her for the enormous success of "All I Want for Christmas Is You," but she has made many more hit songs.
Since she spent 467 weeks on the Billboard 100, Mariah is the best-selling artist of the 1990s and was named "Artist of the Decade" at the 1999 Billboard Music Awards, making her the most successful performer of the decade. Mariah, who has a total of 19 songs, is also the solo artist with the most number-one singles on the Billboard list, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
Mariah has undeniable singing talent, but she hasn't had much success as an actress. Mariah began taking acting classes in 1997, and by the following year, she had already attended tryouts for several film roles. The Bachelor, a 1999 movie starring Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger, served as her cinematic debut. In "Glitter," her first major part, Carey 'won' a Razzie Award for Worst Actress in a Leading Role due to the movie's dismal box office performance.
In 2009, Mariah released the song "Obsessed," which was written for an unidentified male who was allegedly Eminem. Afterward, Carey's husband asserted that the song wasn't intended to criticize the rapper. Then Eminem responded with a song called "The Warning" (which went viral online as a "Mariah Carey Diss"). Carey's vocals in the song appear to have been recorded at that time while the two were still dating.
