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Mariah Carey
A Cinderella story starring the bestselling female musical artist of the millennium. Mariah Carey grew up in a broken home, poor and with no friends. Singing was her salvation. One day, at a music industry party, another musician slips executive Tommy Mottola a demo tape of Mariah. In the limo on his way home Mottola is bored, so he listens to the tape. Mariah’s voice is like liquid gold. He goes back to look for her. But just like in the Cinderella story, she has slipped away.
Mottola follows the tracks of Carey’s slipper and immediately signs her on. In 1990, at 21, she becomes an instant star. Her debut album sells more than seven million copies in the U.S. And she ends up marrying Mottola, her Prince Charming.
Marc Shapiro’s new biography charts this Cinderella story in which Carey becomes the biggest selling recording artist of the 1990s, selling 115 million albums worldwide. Carey is the only musical artist to earn a #1 single every year of the last decade. At the beginning of this decade, fans are anticipating her new movie and soundtrack to All That Glitters (March 2001).
Shapiro’s new book also includes coverage of Carey’s personal her love of cats and dogs, riding horses and roller coasters, and watching Marilyn Monroe movies; her eventual break-up with Mottola, revealed to have physically abused Mariah and kept her prisoner in their mansion; and her recent bizarre behaviour at live shows like her fondness for the striptease.
“This book provides a good overview of Carey’s life and career to date and is easily readable. Her fans definitely will love it.”
— Voice of Youth Advocates, June 2002
Mottola follows the tracks of Carey’s slipper and immediately signs her on. In 1990, at 21, she becomes an instant star. Her debut album sells more than seven million copies in the U.S. And she ends up marrying Mottola, her Prince Charming.
Marc Shapiro’s new biography charts this Cinderella story in which Carey becomes the biggest selling recording artist of the 1990s, selling 115 million albums worldwide. Carey is the only musical artist to earn a #1 single every year of the last decade. At the beginning of this decade, fans are anticipating her new movie and soundtrack to All That Glitters (March 2001).
Shapiro’s new book also includes coverage of Carey’s personal her love of cats and dogs, riding horses and roller coasters, and watching Marilyn Monroe movies; her eventual break-up with Mottola, revealed to have physically abused Mariah and kept her prisoner in their mansion; and her recent bizarre behaviour at live shows like her fondness for the striptease.
“This book provides a good overview of Carey’s life and career to date and is easily readable. Her fans definitely will love it.”
— Voice of Youth Advocates, June 2002
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2001
About the author
Marc Shapiro
127 books76 followersMarc Shapiro is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography, J.K. Rowling: The Wizard behind Harry Potter, and more than a dozen other celebrity biographies. He has been a freelance entertainment journalist for more than twenty-five years, covering film, television, and music for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines.
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April 2, 2010
What an amazing Cinderella story! Mariah is such an inspiration...there really are some that have been able to 'change the stars.'
Love her...loved this portrait of her life...heartbreaking yet encouraging! I was especially touched when she was able to reconnect with her mother. I wish that I could have been able to do that. By the time I found out who my mom was, it was too late...on my!
I enjoyed the movie, Glitter, but have to say that the story in this book is a deeper portrait. Thanks to Shapiro, we have this story to share that truthfully, dreams really can come true...(-:
Love her...loved this portrait of her life...heartbreaking yet encouraging! I was especially touched when she was able to reconnect with her mother. I wish that I could have been able to do that. By the time I found out who my mom was, it was too late...on my!
I enjoyed the movie, Glitter, but have to say that the story in this book is a deeper portrait. Thanks to Shapiro, we have this story to share that truthfully, dreams really can come true...(-:
April 18, 2020
There was some errors throughout the book but I still give it 4 stars because it is probably the best biography of Mariah Carey that is out there right now. Can't wait for her autobiography that's coming out soon.
December 12, 2018
I read this because I am a big fan. I didn't know about her so-called bad attitude that got her in lots of trouble, but also promoted her career. Interesting...
October 12, 2020
It's an interesting story to be sure, though I cannot say I'm a big fan of Mariah Carey's most recent music.
July 15, 2013
when I was a kid I was huge fan of hers I didn't know that they made a book about her. I'm sure that there is some personal facts about her that we shouldn't know in her of course i hope not.
Of course looking at the cover more clearly I was able to figure out that I was able to find out that there was some personal facts in the book about her but she agreed to have them in the book.
I'm glad that she made a life of her own with Nick Cannon.
Of course looking at the cover more clearly I was able to figure out that I was able to find out that there was some personal facts in the book about her but she agreed to have them in the book.
I'm glad that she made a life of her own with Nick Cannon.
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