Hero!

"There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
if you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away."

Mariah Carey is a well known singer. She is a songwriter (lyrist) in Pop and R & B music, as well as a record producer and actress. She was born on Friday, March 27, 1970 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, to Alfred Roy Carey and Patricia Hickey. She raised there by her mother who was a former Opera singer with the New York City Opera and a vocal coach of Irish American. Her father was an aeronautical engineer of African-American and Venezuelan descent.

Being multiethnic family, the Careys endured racial hostility and violence, causing the family to relocate throughout the New York and Rhode Island areas. While Mariah Carey was three years old, her parents divorced because of the strain in the family. So, her mother worked several jobs to support the family.

Mariah Carey began singing at the age of four and she performed the first time in public during elementary school. She wrote her own songs in Junior high school. She graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York while she was carrying on building her popularity as demo singer for local recording studios.

Mariah Carey is known as Pop diva while obtaining her career in this field. She made her debut in 1990 following the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola to have her first five singles top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Mariah Carey met Mottola in 1988. Mottola was impressed by her songs and married her in 1993.

Mariah Carey made a series of subsequent successful records which consolidated her position as Columbia's highest-selling act.

She is successful in taking control over her image and music after being separated from Mottola in 1997, to force her talent and career forward. So, she introduced and developed elements of hip hop into her album material.

Mariah Carey left Columbia in 2001 and she was dropped by Virgin Records the following year after a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown and the poor reception of Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. But she returned to the forefront of popularity in Pop music in 2005 when she signed with Island/Def Jam.

The World Music Awards named Mariah Carey the best-selling female artist of all time in 2000. She accomplished her commercial targets that year when she has recorded the most US number-one singles for a female artist.

Her song "We Belong Together" is attracting good numbers of audience worldwide, bringing Mariah Carey to the top of the Pop music world.

Music marketing observers consider Mariah Carey as the best-selling Pop female performer of the Ninetieth. The steaming singer Mariah Carey's music performs the content of so many ringtones, and makes great deal of the income potential of this industry.

Audience can hear Mariah Carey's song lyrics in mp3s, music videos, CDs and DVDs, Internet radios, and live performances.