Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, and signature use of the whistle register.
She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the U.S. Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks. Soon after, Carey became the only artist ever to have their first five singles reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Vision of Love" to "Emotions".
Meghan Markle Says She Wasn't 'Treated as a Black Woman' Until She Began Dating Prince Harry
etonline.comMeghan Markle is getting candid about growing up as a bi-racial woman. During episode 2 of her podcast titled, the duchess and the songstress broke down their upbringing as women with Black and white parents and navigating a world where it was hard to fit in.
Markle, 41, who has a Black mother and a white father, revealed that the duality of her ethnicity was always acknowledged, until she began her relationship with Prince Harry. “If there’s any time in my life that it’s been more focused on my race, it’s only when I started dating my husband,” she tells Carey. “Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a Black woman.
Because up until then, I had been treated like a mixed woman. And things really shifted." Markle, who began dating Harry in 2016, has been candid about the racism she experienced during their time as senior working members of the royal family and how that impacted their decision to step back from the role in 2020.
Markle admitted that, like, Carey, she has lighter skin, so that always left a gray area. «And I think for us, it's very different because we're light-skinned,» she says. «You're not treated as a Black woman.
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