Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey was born on March 27, 1970, in Huntington, New York, to parents Patricia and Alfred. Unfortunately, her parents divorced when she was only 3 years old. As a result of her Irish, Venezuelan and black descent, Mariah Carey encountered some racial discrimination while growing up.
Mariah Carey was raised in a poverty-stricken home, and her mother was forced to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Conveniently enough, it was Mariah Carey's mom who noticed her daughter's vocal talents.
Mariah Carey's rise to glory began in 1990 with her hit song "Vision of Love." After several follow-up albums, she has grown to become a household name, as well as a diva of our era.
Mariah Carey has been extremely successful as a singer, having cowritten many of her biggest hits and having sold millions of albums worldwide. She may be considered a pop diva, but her singles have crossed over to top the R&B, hip-hop and adult contemporary charts too.
Between 1990 and 2000, she had 15 No. 1 singles on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart; that's twice as many as Janet Jackson during the same period, and more than Madonna, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion combined. Her first four singles all reached the pop summit, while her 1995 duet with Boyz II Men "One Sweet Day," holds the record for most weeks at No. 1; it sat tight for an incredible 16 weeks.
She's also been nominated for countless Grammy Awards. She started winning them from the time of her 1990 debut album, when she won in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "Vision of Love") categories.
As if those accomplishments weren't enough, Mariah Carey continued to receive success as her career progressed. Her 2005 album, The Emancipation of Mimi, debuted at No. 1, and the single "We Belong Together" held the Hot 100's No. 1 position for 14 weeks and was 2005's biggest hit in the States.
Her 2008 album E=MC2, another brilliant success, was Mariah Carey's 11th studio album to date.

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Britney spear's Romance in Sun City

Proximity is all the rumor mill needs to start cranking, as evidenced this weekend when Britney Spears was spotted within Cheeto-throwing distance of her paparazzo ex, Adnan Ghalib. People reports that the comeback-minded, but still conservator-controlled, popster spent the holiday in Las Vegas relaxing with pals -- and minders -- at the Mirage Hotel, the very same place her chin strip-sporting former flame happened to be wandering around. According to the mag, they "did not see each other in public though they were within a few yards of each other several times" on Sunday as a bikini-clad Brit worked on her skin damage tan by the hotel's pool. No word on whether Spears, whose father, Jamie, has the final say on who she can and cannot see, caught up with Ghalib in private. "I don't think it was a coincidence that he was there," a snitch tells E! News. "What are the odds?" When not soaking up the sun and having less-than-coincidental near-misses with an ex, Britney, who may or may not be appearing at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7, made a return visit to Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden and caught Cirque du Soleil's "Love" show.

There are plenty of theories bouncing around over why David Duchovny checked himself into rehab for sex addiction, including the possibility that he stepped out on Téa Leoni, his wife of more than a decade. But an insider hints to Fox News that there may be a more solitary explanation than an affair, namely, a dependence on online porn. So why did the actor invite many an easy comparison to his pleasure-seeking "Californication" character and his "X-Files" alter ego (Mulder, you may remember, had a weakness for pornography) by revealing he's in treatment? Word is, one of his fellow patients sold him out to a tabloid, which was about to run with the story.

If you prefer your romance rumors with a dab of Clearasil and side of geometry homework, then a recent double date should be of particular interest. Us Weekly reports that the Jonas Brothers stepped out for dinner in New York last Thursday with Selena Gomez, 16, and Taylor Swift, 18, who have been linked to 15-year-old Nick and 19-year-old Joe, respectively. In recent weeks, the wholesome teens have bobbed and weaved around the young-love reports, but in surprisingly similar ways. "He's an amazing guy, and anybody would be lucky to be dating him," Swift told People of Joe, who then dodged to Ryan Seacrest, "She's a great girl ... I think anybody would love to go on a date with her." Nick echoed Swift's sentiments to Seacrest, saying of Selena, "Well, she's an amazing girl, and anybody would be lucky to be dating her." Gomez, for her part, has denied the dating chatter, but says she and Nick "bonded" over their purity rings (hers, a gift from her dad, reads "true love waits").

For once, Naomi Campbell has a darn good reason to be miffed. The rage blackout-prone supermodel is displeased over reports that her moneybags Russian squeeze, Vladimir Doronin, surprised her with an $18.5 million penthouse in Sao Paolo, Brazil. "If I want a house, I'll buy my own," she huffs to the London Daily Mirror. "I don't need a man for that."