Mariah Carey

By Marc Shapiro

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 life: 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550224441
• ISBN13: 9781550224443
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

A Great Book !

If you don't know anything about how great Mariah's story is .. then this book is for you, and if you know everything about Mariah's story except the little details .. then this book is for you too :)Buy it im sure you're gonna love it!

Best Mariah Biography Yet!

I am a huge Mariah Carey fan and I own just about every book and biography on her. This particular one by Marc Shapiro is by far my favorite of them all! It's so full of detail and has many many behind the music type stories in it that keep your interest to its fullest. Also there are many great pictures inside that are cool to look at! I like this book so much that I had Mariah sign it when I got the chance to meet her a couple of months ago. She said she didnt particularly like the book, but she'd sign it anyways. I think its because it goes so deep into personal issues that maybe she didnt have a say in what was being written since it is "unauthorized." Its still my favorite by far!

Great Mariah Book.

I got this book as a gift from a friend. It talks about mariah's life from when she was born until she started with the whole Glitter thing. This book has some nice full page color pictures but they could be better and some great other ones. In this book there is also her discography, videography, and has a list of all the awards she won. Every Mariah fan should buy this because it may have a bit of information you don't know. GREAT BOOK BY A GREAT AUTHOR.

Un-describable

I really Loved the book by Marc, it shows a side of Mariah we always wanted to know, and with her in the hospital right now, we understand all the work that she does for all of her fans and we trully admore her for all of her stuff, everything, this book shows and tell all of mariahs backstage pass things that she has to go through and things that she has went through as a child, this is a book to buy and to rmemeber! Mariah is the Goddess od the 21st century, and the 1990's Decade......

5 stars for an awesome Mariah book!

I finished this book so quick, I couldn't put it down! This is highly recommended to all the Mariah Carey fans! The biography takes the reader all the way up until now - even talks a bit about "Glitter" and Mariah's new single "Loverboy." If you're a Mariah fan, you need to buy this book! You'll get excited when reading about MC's famous life story - and what an incredible one it is! Rock on Mariah!