Mariah Carey is a renowned American singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director and also an actress. Her career was initiated in the year 1990 when she came under the sway of Tommy Mottola, the executive of Columbia Records and became the first recording act to have its first five singles to top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. In the period of her post-marriage with Mottola in 1993, the finest specimen of Carey’s excellence was perceived. It witnessed a series of hit records and thus established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. She was termed as the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United State, to the Billboard magazine.

In the meantime after witnessing several slumpses in 2002, Carey signed with Island Records and after an unsuccessful period, she thought it wise to shape her career in a new fashion and  returned to the forefront of pop music in 2005. Though in the year 2000, she was hailed as the  best selling pop female artist of the millennium by the World Music Awards. She has a unique creadit of recording the most U.S. number-one singles for a female solo artist (seventeen), and has thereby earned five Grammy Awards. In addition to her excelled commercial accomplishments, she is widely known for her vocal range, power, melismatic voice style and extensive use of the whistle register. Though she has been criticised from time to time and the most severe has been that Carey's efforts to showcase her vocal talents have been at the expense of communicating true emotion through song.

Except as a glamour queen, Carey is a philanthrospist who has donated time and money to organizations such as the Fresh Air Fund. It was in the early 1990s when she became associated with the Fund and is the co-founder of a camp located in Fishkill, New York that has set its obective towards enabling inner-city youth to encourage them to embrace the arts and introduce them to their career opportunities and thus frame their lives in reference to those . The camp came to be known as Camp Mariah "for her generous support and dedication to Fresh Air children". It was at this time she received a Congressional Horizon Award for her youth-related charity work. She is well-known in the entire nation of the United States of America for her work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation engaged in the granting of the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses, and in November 2006 she was awarded the Foundation's Wish Idol for her "extraordinary generosity and her many wish granting achievements".