Mariah Carey

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01= I'll Be There - Mariah Carey
02= Without You - Mariah Carey
03=Always be my baby
04=Anytime You Need A Friend
05=Hero
06=Vision of Love
07= All I Want For Christmas Is You
08= Santa Claus is coming to town
09= When You Believe
10= My All



Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970)  is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1990, she rose to fame with the release of "Vision of Love" from her eponymous debut album. The album produced four chart-topping singles in the US and began what would become a string of commercially successful albums which solidified the singer as Columbia's highest selling act. Carey and Boyz II Men spent a record sixteen weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995–1996 with "One Sweet Day", which remains the longest-running number-one song in US chart history. Following a contentious divorce from Sony Music head Tommy Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and traversed towards hip hop with the release of Butterfly (1997). In 1998, she was honored as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the World Music Awards and subsequently named the best-selling female artist of the millennium in 2000.

Carey parted with Columbia in 2000, and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records America. In the weeks prior to the release of her film Glitter and its accompanying soundtrack in 2001, she suffered a physical and emotional breakdown and was hospitalized for severe exhaustion. The project was poorly received and led to a general decline in the singer's career. Carey's recording contract was bought out for $50 million by Virgin and she signed a multi-million dollar deal with Island Records the following year. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). The album became the best-selling album in the US and the second best-seller worldwide in 2005 and produced "We Belong Together", which became her most successful single of the 2000s, and was later named "Song of the Decade" by Billboard. Carey once again ventured into film with a well-received supporting role in Precious (2009), and was awarded the "Breakthrough Performance Award" at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Throughout her career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. According to the RIAA, she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums. With the release of "Touch My Body" (2008), Carey gained her 18th number-one single in the United States, more than any other solo artist. In 2012, the singer was ranked second on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Women in Music". Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Carey has won 5 Grammy Awards, 19 World Music Awards, 11 American Music Awards, and 14 Billboard Music Awards and has been consistently credited with inspiring a generation of singers.  Referred to as the "songbird supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is famed for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and signature use of the whistle register.

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I'll Be There - Mariah Carey



I'll Be There - The Jackson 5 song of 1970, starring Mariah Carey in 1992

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Without You - Mariah Carey



Without You is a song by Mariah Carey, produced by Walter Afanasieff and cover the homonymous song by Badfinger, brought to success by cover of Harry Nilsson. Released as the third single from the album Music Box, in the US the single was released January 24, 1994, one week after Nilsson's death on 15 January. The single was promoted as a double A-side with Never Forget You.

Without You peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining in the top 40 for twenty-one weeks and received a gold record. Outside the United States Without You remains the most successful single of Carey. It was the first number one of the singer in the UK, where he remained for four weeks.

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Anytime You Need A Friend - Mariah Carey

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Anytime You Need a Friend is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey, along with Walter Afanasieff, for the third of the Carey studio album, Music Box (1993). The song featuring the singer who informs his friends that whenever they need someone she is always there. A gospel choir accompanies the song, starting about a minute after the start.

In the U.S.A., "Anytime You Need a Friend" interrupted a series of singles that reached all the top-5, entering at number # 45 and reaching a 12th place. Overall though the song got a good success in the radio coming to # 47 in the ranking at the end of 1994 also he reached the 22 on the Hot R & B / Hip Hop Songs.

After the worldwide success of "Without You", the song reached the top-20 of almost all the charts. He reached the top-five in New Zealand and the top-10 in the United Kingdom and Australia. It was the second song of the singer to achieve more success in the UK and the U.S., where the song sold 100,000 copies.

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Hero - Mariah Carey



Hero is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, and in the fourth album of Carey Music Box published in 1993. In the lyrics of the song, the protagonist declares that even if at times you feel discouraged or sad in reality it is all "heroes" in view of inner strength.

The song was released as the second single from the album in late 1993 and became a huge international success. Hero is in fact considered one of the most representative songs of Carey, regularly performed at every concert or event in which it participates. In 1995 the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Female Pop Performance" award then went to Sheryl Crow. However, Hero has won two awards from ASCAP Music R & B, and one for pop music, as well as a BMI Pop Award.

In later years the song has been the subject of numerous cover, some of them very prestigious, such as the one played by Aretha Franklin. Other covers include the famous musical group Il Divo, Rihanna and Natalie Bassingthwaighte. It was also adapted the lyrics in Italian and recorded in 1998 by Annalisa Minetti.

In 2001, the single was released as the only single from the second collection of Carey, Greatest Hits, such medley with Never Too Far single from the album Glitter.

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Vision Of Love -  Mariah Carey



Vision of Love is a song written by Mariah Carey and produced by Rhett Lawrence, for the debut album of Carey Mariah Carey in 1990. This R & B song was released as the first single from the album in the second quarter of 1990 in the US , and only later in the rest of the world.

The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Following the single managed to take first place in Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and several European countries.

Some famous musicians such as Beyoncé and Mikaila said they had begun to produce "virtuoso" voice, after hearing Vision of Love for the first time.

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"When You Believe" is a song from the 1998 DreamWorks musical animated feature The Prince of Egypt. It was written and composed by Stephen Schwartz.

A pop single version of "When You Believe", with additional music and lyrics by writer-producer Babyface, was also recorded for the film by American singers Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for the film's end credits and its soundtrack album. Additionally, the song was featured on Houston's fourth studio album, My Love Is Your Love and Carey's first compilation album, #1's.

The original version of the song, featured in the narrative portion of the film, is performed by Sally Dworsky, Michelle Pfeiffer, and a children's choir. "When You Believe" is described as a big ballad, with meaningful and inspirational lyrics, describing the ability each person has to achieve miracles when they reach out to God and believe.

The song received generally mixed reviews from music critics and experienced moderate success, peaking at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, despite heavy media attention and live promotion. It achieved better charting throughout Europe and other nations, peaking within the top five in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

"When You Believe" was awarded the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 71st annual ceremony on March 21, 1999. Prior to their performance of the song that night, Schwartz left Babyface's name off the nomination submission sheet. He felt that because the additions Babyface added to the song were not featured in the actual film version, he did not deserve writing credits.

However, while Babyface did not receive the Oscar, Carey and Houston performed his version of the song, because they were more familiar with it than the one in the film. Prior to their performance at the Academy Awards, they sang it on November 26, 1998 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, promoting the song, as well as both their albums.

The song featured two music videos. The first and most commonly seen video was filmed at Brooklyn Academy of Music performing arts center. The video features both singers, and begins with Houston and Carey performing in a large auditorium, giving the illusion of a concert. Towards the end of the video, clips of the film are projected onto a large screen at the concert, while they belt out the final verse.

The alternate video was only released on NBC's special, When You Believe: Music Inspired by the Prince of Egypt, broadcast on December 13, 1998. It features a similar synopsis, with both singers performing on a large stage of an old Egyptian pyramid.

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Whenever You Call
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Always Be My Baby
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"Always Be My Baby" is a song by American singer Mariah Carey from her fifth studio album Daydream (1995). It was released by Columbia Records on March 9, 1996, as the third US single and fourth overall.

The song was written by Carey, Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal. A mid-tempo song, its lyrics describe the feeling of attachment and unity the singer feels towards her estranged lover, even though they are no longer together, she says he will always be a part of her and will "always be her baby" even after they move on.

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