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Topic: Grammy Awards and nominations for Mariah Carey


  
  Bio - Mariah Carey Wikipedia Mariah Carey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mariah Carey had little contact with her father, except for sporadic visits on weekends but even those dwindled as the years went by; Patricia raised Mariah, often struggling with two or three jobs and continuing to move among different towns on Long Island, but tried to provide a spirited, loving household.
Carey had participated in theatre workshops as a child and began to study acting again in 1997 6 with acting coach Sheila Gray, but it was not until 1999 that she made her big screen debut.
Carey is a coloratura soprano, credited as having a five-octave vocal range, and her vocal trademark is her ability to hit high notes in the whistle register.
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 Mariah Carey - ExampleProblems.com
Carey co-wrote all of the original compositions on her debut album with songwriter/producers such as Ric Wake, Rhett Lawrence, and Narada Michael Walden, and would continue to co-write nearly all of her material for the rest of her career.
Carey premiered a cover of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There", performed as a duet with Trey Lorenz, on the special; released as a single, it became Carey's sixth number-one hit in the U.S. Carey's critically-acclaimed performance was later released by Columbia on album as the MTV Unplugged EP.
Carey is credited as having a five-octave vocal range; she can cover all the notes from the alto range leading to those of a coloratura soprano [41].
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 Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey's rise to glory began in 1990 with her hit song "Vision of Love." After several successful follow-up albums, she has grown to become a household name, as well as a diva of our era.
Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1970, in Long Island, New York, to parents Patricia and Alfred.
Carey was raised in a poverty-stricken home and her mother was forced to work multiple jobs in order to make ends meet.
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 Mariah Carey ~ Close My Eyes ~ Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mariah Carey, the best-selling female artist of the 1990s, was born on March 27, 1970 in Long Island, New York.
Although always struggling with math, Mariah was born with a sensitivity to life and a way with words that allowed her to be one of the best writers in her school.
Mariah has co-written each of her #1 songs with the exception of the remake of the Jackson 5's "Ill Be There".
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 U2 upstages Mariah Carey at Grammy Awards - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grammy voters, for the first time, honored a contestant on the Fox television smash "American Idol," granting that populist phenomenon a measure of acceptance from the musical establishment.
She won two Grammys in 1990, including the best new artist award, but her career took a downturn in 2001 when the movie "Glitter," in which she starred, and its soundtrack were poorly received.
Carey's eight nominations, including ones in the top three categories (album, record and song of the year), tied her for the most with West and Legend.
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 Mariah Carey News - Q97.9 Hit Music
Mariah Carey is among the artists being honored by the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Recording...
Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott and Ciara were among the winners of the 2005 Lady of Soul...
Mariah Carey may soon have a Broadway musical under her belt.MTV reports that the singer is currently writing a...
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 Mariah Carey Superstar
Mariah Carey was born near Long Island, New York on March 27, 1970.
The result is that Mariah Carey is the best-selling female performer of the 1990s, and the first artist to top the charts in each year of that decade.
Still popular with the fans is any new Mariah Carey gallery that may have the latest pics of Mariah Carey in a bikini, and on the notable music front we have a strong interest in Mariah Carey "We Belong Together." Just don't confuse her with the adult film star, Mary Carey.
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 Mariah Carey revels in glow of eight Grammy nominations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Carey, who just a couple of years ago was considered a dimming star, was reaffirmed as one of music's brightest yesterday as she was nominated for eight Grammy awards, including album of the year for "The Emancipation of Mimi."
Paul McCartney was also nominated in the album of the year category for "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard." The album garnered the former Beatle his best reviews in decades; it also marked his first Grammy nomination in 26 years.
Carey says the reason the album did so well was because she stayed true to her own musical intuition by delivering a strong Randamp;B album instead of listening to the advice of others and going more pop.
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 Mariah Carey, Kanye West lead Grammy nominees - Entertainment - RedOrbit
Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi" was nominated for best album of the year, while the ballad "We Belong Together" made the grade for best record of the year -- a triumph for a woman whose career was all but written off just a few years ago.
The top female awards look to be another run off between Carey and Stefani, who staged a surprise upset at the American Music Awards last month when she was named favorite female pop/rock artist over the hotly tipped Carey.
The eight nominations were a vindication for Carey whose album has been one of the biggest sellers of the year, with worldwide sales of more than 7 million copies, according to her Island Def Jam label.
www.redorbit.com /news/entertainment/324565/mariah_carey_kanye_west_lead_grammy_nominees/index.html   (477 words)

  
 Grammy Awards and nominations for Mariah Carey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American singer Mariah Carey has received five Grammy Awards and a total of thirty-one nominations since the start of her career in 1990.
Carey won her first two awards in 1991, and at the 1996 show she had been nominated in six categories.
She did not win any awards that year, and it marked the last time that she attended a Grammy Awards ceremony until 2006, when she was nominated for eight awards, the highest number of nominations that she has received for a single year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Awards_and_nominations_for_Mariah_Carey   (690 words)

  
 Mariah Carey has visions of love from the Grammys - Boston.com
The last time Mariah Carey received a batch of Grammy nominations, she endured one of the most humiliating experiences of her career as she was shut out all six times while a worldwide television audience watched her mood darken throughout the ceremony.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The last time Mariah Carey received a batch of Grammy nominations, she endured one of the most humiliating experiences of her career as she was shut out all six times while a worldwide television audience watched her mood darken throughout the ceremony.
Carey, 35, shares the lead with rapper Kanye West and soul singer John Legend, and is the only person nominated in all three key categories of record, album and song of the year.
www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/02/06/mariah_carey_has_visions_of_love_from_the_grammys?mode=PF   (741 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | The fall and rise of Mariah Carey
But Carey has fought her way back to the very top, leading the Grammy nominations and scoring last year's best-selling album in the US with The Emancipation of Mimi.
The Mariah Carey story started when a demo cassette by the New York-born daughter of an opera singer was heard by Sony Music's US president, Tommy Mottola.
Carey says that the secret to her renewed success is the fact she no longer feels the need to please critics or label executives.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4690602.stm   (715 words)

  
 Mariah Carey has eight Grammy nominations under her belt - Muzix
This years Grammy is special for her as she’s the only artist nominated in all three major categories of record, album and song of the year.
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 Carey, West top Grammy nominations - The Boston Globe
Still, the story of this Grammy season is Carey, whose career seemed derailed by well-publicized emotional troubles, a laughable movie debut in 2001's ill-conceived vanity project ''Glitter," and the severing of her high-profile deal with Virgin Records, which gave Carey a $28 million payoff just to go away.
Now, Carey, a two-time Grammy winner (though she hasn't picked up an award since 1990), is having the last laugh with one of the year's biggest albums.
Grammy perennials U2 -- the band's won 16 awards since 1987's landmark ''Joshua Tree" -- received five nominations, including best album for ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." And Bruce Springsteen's ''Devils and Dust," the title track of his latest album, received a song of the year nomination.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/12/09/carey_west_top_grammy_nominations   (882 words)

  
 Mariah Carey wins three early Grammy Awards - General - RedOrbit
Carey, along with rapper Kanye West and R&B newcomer John Legend, leads the contenders with eight nominations each.
Carey, who had won only two Grammys to date in her career, was honored for female R&B vocal performance and best R&B song, both for the tune "We Belong Together," and for contemporary R&B album for her comeback release "The Emancipation of Mimi."
The only award Carey lost was for traditional R&B vocal performance, where Aretha Franklin won for "A House is Not a Home." This marked the 17th award of her career.
www.redorbit.com /news/general/384652/mariah_carey_wins_three_early_grammy_awards/index.html?source=r_general   (569 words)

  
 48th Annual Grammy Awards | Facts | Trivia | Awards Show | Nominations | Nominees | Winners | Performance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The 48th annual Grammy Awards are coming in February 2006 so we wanted to bring you some facts and figures from the years past.
The Grammys were originally launched to ward off the threat of the rock 'n roll explosion.
The record for the most nominations in one year is held by two artists - Michael Jackson was nominated 12 times in 1983 and Babyface was nominated 12 times in 1992.
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 The Envelope.com: Is eight enough?
Daring rapper Kanye West, veteran diva Mariah Carey and soulful newcomer John Legend led the way Thursday with eight nominations each for the 48th annual Grammy Awards, an acknowledgment of the powerful confluence of hip-hop and RandB as the sound of pop music in 2005.
Carey, whose career seemed all but over a few years ago, is also nominated for best album for "The Emancipation of Mimi," a weave of urban ballads, hip-hop beats and dance-floor hits.
Carey is the only nominee named in all three of the marquee categories: best album, song and record of the year.
theenvelope.latimes.com /awards/grammys/env-grammynomstory8dec08,0,5378999.story?track=widget   (625 words)

  
 MSN Music - 2006 Grammy Awards
NEW YORK -- Mariah Carey's comeback came full circle Thursday as she was nominated for eight Grammys, including album of the year for "The Emancipation of Mimi" and song and record of the year for her torch ballad "We Belong Together."
Carey's eight nominations tied John Legend and Kanye West.
U2, nominated for five awards, was also represented in the album of the year category for "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb." Besides Carey and West, other nominees in the category were Stefani for "Love.
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 Torres Talking: Mariah Carey Leads Grammy Nominations - HUH?
There's something wrong with a world where Mariah Carey is nominated for the top reward in all of music (album of the year Grammy).
Your beef is with hip-hop, not mariah and kanye.
Lets be honest she has not been nominated for a grammy for quite sometime.
mike.spaces.live.com /Blog/cns!1pG4qKNdtRA5Nl-UhvZI_1rQ!4819.entry   (1003 words)

  
 Mariah Carey 'Emancipates' Her Career, With Eight Grammy Nominations, She's Enjoying the Moment - CBS News
Kauffman reported that not so long ago, Carey's career was in a nose dive and she was released from her record company.
Many music writers are calling Carey's success the biggest comeback in pop music but the singer says she never thought it was over for her.
With eight Grammy nods, Mariah Carey's career comeback is undeniable.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/06/grammys/main1283749.shtml   (687 words)

  
 Mariah Carey and 2 Others Lead Grammy Nods - New York Times
Mariah Carey had good reasons for her big smile as she helped announce the nominations for the 48th annual Grammy Awards at a New York news conference today.
Singer Mariah Carey was onstage for the 48th annual Grammy Awards nominations at Gotham Hall today in New York City.
Beyonce Knowles was nominated in six categories, among them Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group; in that category, her duet with Stevie Wonder on the Luther Vandross song "So Amazing" competes with "Cater 2 U" by Ms.
www.nytimes.com /2005/12/08/arts/music/08cnd-grammy.html?ex=1291698000&en=32caecf07e1d57b2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (766 words)

  
 Mariah Carey
Mariah was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital the night of April 3, 2000 for dehyrdation and complications from food poisoning.
Mariah will also star in and record the soundtrack for Columbia Pictures' "All That Glitters." The movie is based on an idea of Mariah's about a singer who is discovered by a DJ whom she becomes involved with and eventually leaves when her success challenges his need for control.
Mariah was honored at the Congressional Award Foundation’s fl-tie benefit in Washington, D.C. on April 21, with the 1999 Horizon Award.
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 CNN.com - U2 is the big Grammy winner - Feb 9, 2006
(CNN) -- Mariah Carey may have received much of the pre-show attention, but U2 was the big winner Wednesday night at the Grammys, taking five awards -- including two of the biggest, album of the year and song of the year.
After the song of the year award, Bono explained the odd album title was a reference to his father, Bob, the "atomic bomb" of the title.
However, all her awards were presented before the Grammy telecast -- with 100-plus categories, most Grammys are awarded before the show -- and her time on air was limited to a performance of "We Belong Together" followed by "Fly Like a Bird."
www.cnn.com /2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/08/grammy.awards/index.html   (1016 words)

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