Mariah Carey – Know her Better

Mariah Carey – Net Worth

With a net worth of $520 million, Mariah Carey is one of the highest paid female performers, of all time.  With more than 200 million record copies sold, she is one of the best-selling artists of all-time.  Though Carey has been frequently compared to powerful  vocalists like Celine Dion and Whitney Houston, she is more of an-all rounder writing her own songs and even composing her material.

Helping Mariah Carey’s net worth is her meteroic success in the 90s, when she signed up with Columbia Records for her debut album ‘Mariah’. She became the first and only performer to have first five singles hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. One of the most famous Christmas songs ‘ All I want for Christmas’ that released in 1994 has continued to be a huge earnings boost to Mariah Carey, earning her more than $60 million, to date.  Another single ‘One Sweet Day’ is the longest running number one single in US history

In 2000, when Carey signed a $100 million contract with Virgin Records,  for 5 albums. It is another thing that she released only one album called ‘Glitter’.  A signficant chunk of  her earnings are through live performances.  People reported that Mariah Carey also received $5 to $10 million in financial settlement when her engagement with billionaire James Packer, fell through.

A bit later to enter the world of celebrity endorsements,  Carey plunged in by 2006 and began to endorse Intel Centrino brand of PCs and also promoted ring tones for brands like Motorola and Pepsi.  Like Britney Spears, Mariah Cary also launched her own perfume line in 2007, called ‘M’ which earned her $150 million.

The rise of Mariah

According to RIAA(Recording  Industry Assocation of America), Mariah Carey is the third best-selling female artiste of all time, behind Madonna and Barbra Streisand. Mariah Carey is a famous American singer, lyricist and record producer. Although she started her career in the music industry, she has also worked in a few movies. She is considered to be one of the most prominent singers of the 21st century. In the two decades of her career in the industry, Carey has established herself as a vocal virtuoso and has sold more than 200 million copies of her music across the world, making her one of the most successful music artists of all time.

Carey is known to bring a fresher, newer brand of music with every album she releases. She is known to possess an impressive five-octave vocal range and masterfully hits notes upto the 7th octave. Majority of her musical styles include R&B, Hip Hop, Pop and  Motown soul. She is known to be America’s third best selling female artist. She has won as many as 19 World Music Awards, 14 Billboard Music Awards, 11 American Music Awards and 5 Grammy Awards.

Early Life and Education

Carey was born on March 27, 1970 in Huntington, New York to Patricia Hickey and Alfred Roy Carey. While her father is of Afro-Venezuelan and African American descent, her mother is Irish. The family’s last name Carey was adopted by her grandfather when the immigrated to USA. She has an older sister named Alison and a brother named Morgan. Her parents divorced when she was three years old.

Carey attended Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York where she first tried her hand at song-writing and melodies. She graduated in 1987. It was during her high school years that she recognized music as her calling and did not study further. Instead, she started writing songs, collaborating with Gavin Christopher.

Career Rise

Carey rose to fame in 1990 with her debut album “Vision of Love” which produced four singles that topped all musical charts in USA. After her debut album, she produced many commercially successful albums which helped her establish herself as the highest selling musical act for Columbia Records. In 1995–96, Carey and the R&B group Boyz II Men created musical history by spending a record sixteen weeks with a top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for their hit single “One Sweet Day”, which still remains America’s longest-running, number-one song. In 1997, Carey moved to hip hop with the release of her album Butterfly. In 2000, Carey was signed by Virgin Records America for a $100 million recording contract, but following health issues her career saw a decline for a few years. She made her comeback, making her way back to the top of all musical charts in 2005 with ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’, making it America’s best-selling album and the second-best selling album across the globe. Her song ‘We Belong Together’ from the album was named the best song of the decade of the 2000’s.

Besides music, Carey has also worked in a few movies and television shows and generally received good reviews. She also served as a judge on American Idol Season 12.

Mariah Carey – Young Pictures

Past Relationships

Carey dated and later married Tommy Mottola, an American music executive on 5 June 1993, but their relationship suffered due to constant creative differences in their musical collaborations and due to his controlling nature. She divorced him in 1998 and started seeing singer Luis Miguel. The relationship lasted for three years from 1998 to 2001.

Carey married actor, comedian Nick Cannon on April 30, 2008 in The Bahamas. Together the couple have two children, fraternal twins Monroe and Moroccon, whom she delivered via Caesarean section, also on April 30, 2011. The couple divorced in 2016. On January 2016, Mariah Carey began dating billionaire James Packer only to split with him in October, the same year.

Mariah Carey – Boyfriend Brian Tanaka

Bryan Tanaka, hailing from Washington, was Mariah’s backup dancer on ‘Adventures of Mimi Tour’ in 2006. She started dating Tanaka, post her split with Packer.  Over a period of time, Tanka who began working as a backup dancer for Beyonce, grew up the ranks and became Carey’s creative director.

Home

Carey and Packer lived together in plush rental property in Los Angeles, California. At a monthly rent of $250,000, the property boasts of an elevator, eight bedrooms, and a dry sauna.

Post her split with Packer, Mariah Carey moved to a rented mansion in Los Angeles. This is an 8-bedroom Mediterranean mansion sprawling across 10,000 square feet, with a price of $35,000 per month.  It belongs to  a Saudi royal.

 

Mariah Carey – Height (Comparison)

The prolific entertainer is 1.73 meter  or 5 feet 8 inches tall. Mariah Carey’s height can be compared with Katy Perry who is 1.7 meters tall and Beyonce who is 1.69 meters tall.