Mariah is known for her fantastic voice. In 2003 The Guinness Book of World Records awarded her the record for “highest note hit by a human”. She hit this note during a live performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Mariah also holds the record for largest vocal range, going from G7 to A2.
Born the daughter of a voice coach and opera singer, Mariah got her name from a lyric in a song. With her mothers vocation it perhaps isn’t surprising that she became a singer when she grew up. Writing all of her own music, Mariah graduated in 1987 from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York and lives the life of a successful musician. Not many know that she started her career working as a waitress (and other such jobs) while trying to get noticed as a singer.
Mariah did get noticed of course; a man from CBS records met her during a party and soon she was handing out demo-tapes. Columbia Records eventually got a hold of one and gave her the chance of a lifetime. She released a self titled album in 1990, followed by another in 1992 and so on; by 1998 she had thirteen number one hits. Mariah, known for her tortuous music tours and hell-bent-for-leather schedule eventually began to buckle, and in 2001 she was admitted into a New York-area hospital and put under psychiatric care after suffering what her publicists reported as a "physical and emotional collapse." Soon after her release she began to change record companies, then go back on tour.
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