Mariah Carey was born in Long Island, New York on March 27, 1970. Her parents are Patricia Hickey (Irish-American) and Alfred Roy Carey (African-American/Venezuelan). Mariah attended Greenlawn's Harborfields High School. In June of 1990 Mariah made her debut with "Mariah Carey" which entered at #73, but on August 4 1990 it reached #1. She is the only artist since the Beatles and Elvis Presley to have so many #1 singles and albums. With "Heartbreaker", the first single from her 1999 album Rainbow, she became the only artist to top the charts in each year of the 1990s, and with "Heartbreaker," she pushed ahead of the as the only artist with the most cumulative weeks spent atop Singles chart. "We Belong Together" from her 2005 album The Emancipation of Mimi became her 16th #1 single and was also her first #1 without any guest aView More
