Singers with a Five Octave Vocal Range - Mariah Carey, Robert Wyatt, Minnie Riperton, Violetta Villas, Linda Lewis, Tamia, Morten Harket (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Mariah Carey, Robert Wyatt, Minnie Riperton, Violetta Villas, Linda Lewis, Tamia, Morten Harket, Jean Carne, Romina Arena, Sherlie Matthews, Shanice, Romeo Johnson, Annie Haslam, Divine Brown, Cupid. Excerpt: Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American R&B/pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records including "Dreamlover," "Hero," "Without You," "Fantasy," "One Sweet Day" and "Always Be My Baby" from the diamond albums Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995) and released the holiday standard "All I Want For Christmas Is You" from the best selling Christmas album of all time Merry Christmas (1994), established her position as Columbia Records' top-selling act. Following her separation from Mottola in 1997, she introduced elements of hip hop into her album work, to much initial success, but when she left Columbia in 2001 her popularity was in decline. She signed an unprecedented $100 million deal with Virgin Records, only to be dropped from the label and bought out of her contract in the following year. This radical turn of events was due to the highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception that was given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. In 2002 Carey signed a $24 million deal with Island Records, and after a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of pop music in 2005 with her album The Emancipation of Mimi. The album became her best-selling album in the 2000s and its single, "We Belong Together," became her most successful solo single of her music career and was also award...