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Here's a look at the life of Grammy-winning singer and actress Mariah Carey.
Birthdate: March 27, 1970
Place of birth: Long Island, New York
Birth name: Mariah Carey
Father: Alfred Roy Carey, aeronautical engineer
Mother: Patricia (Hickey) Carey, opera singer and voice coach
Marriages: Nick Cannon (2008-2016, divorced); Tommy Mottola (1993-1998, divorced)
Children: with Nick Cannon: Moroccan and Monroe (twins)
It has a vocal range of five octaves.
She supported herself as a waitress and backup singer before signing with Columbia Records.
He has won five Grammy Awards and been nominated for 34.
He is the first artist to top the Billboard charts in four different decades.
1988 – Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola hears Carey's demo tape and signs her to the label.
1990 – Her debut album, “Mariah Carey,” is released. It continues to sell more than six million copies and spawns four number one singles.
1991 – Carey wins two Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Vision of Love” and Best New Artist.
1994 – He joins the Fresh Air Fund board of directors. She supports the fund's Career Awareness Program, which is named Camp Mariah, in her honor.
Summer 2001 – She suffers an “emotional and physical breakdown” and is hospitalized.
September 2001 – Carey stars in a semi-autobiographical film, “Glitter,” and releases an album of the same name. Both the album and the film were neither commercially nor critically successful.
2002 – Virgin pays Carey $28 million to terminate her contract. She later signs a $20 million contract with Island Def Jam Music Group.
2006 – Wins three Grammy Awards: Best Contemporary R&B Album, with Brian Garten and Dana John Chappelle for “The Emancipation of Mimi”, Best R&B Song, with Jermaine Dupri, Johntá Austin and Manuel Seal Jr., for “We Belong Together” and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for “We Belong Together.”
2009 – She plays a social worker in the film “Precious,” directed by Lee Daniels.
March 2011 – Following reports that he accepted a payment in 2009 to perform for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi Carey makes a statement saying she was “naïve and did not know who she was contracted to perform for.” “I feel horrible and ashamed that I participated in this mess.”
2013 – He appears as a judge on season 12 of “American Idol.”
August 5, 2015 – Carey is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
December 4, 2016 – All eight episodes of E! The docuseries “Mariah's World” premieres.
December 31, 2016 – He experiences an audio track malfunction while lip-syncing in front of a live audience on ABC's “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest.”
April 2018 – Carey reveals that she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In an interview in People magazine, she says that she is now in therapy and taking medication for bipolar II disorder, which involves periods of depression in addition to hypomania.
January 16, 2019 – Carey's former assistant, Lianna Shakhnazaryan, files a civil lawsuit alleging she was harassed and tormented by Carey's manager, Stella Bulochnikov. In the complaint, Shakhnazaryan alleges that Bulochnikov physically abused her and urinated on her, and that Carey was sometimes present during his abuse and allowed her to continue. Carey files her own lawsuit against Shakhnazaryan, alleging breach of contract, invasion of privacy and extortion. The case is settled in July 2021 for an undisclosed amount.
December 16, 2019 – 25-year-old Carey's Christmas song, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” reaches No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time.
September 29, 2020 – Carey's memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” is published.
March 3, 2021 – Carey's brother, Morgan Carey, is filing a defamation lawsuit against her, alleging that her depiction in “The Meaning of Mariah Carey” caused him to “intentionally inflict emotional distress.” The lawsuit follows a separate lawsuit filed by Carey's sister, Alison Carey, a month earlier for emotional distress caused by her memoirs.
June 3, 2022 – In a complaint filed in federal court in New Orleans, Andy Stone sues Carey over her 1994 Christmas classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Stone says he co-wrote a song with the same title five years earlier. The complaint states that Stone's attorneys first contacted the defendants in April 2021 about his alleged unauthorized use, but “were unable to reach an agreement.” On November 1, Stone requests to dismiss the case.
June 16, 2022 – He is included in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
November 1, 2023 – Andy Stone refiles his complaint in federal court in Los Angeles for “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Stone alleges copyright infringement and unjust enrichment and is seeking at least $20 million in damages.
