Through her giggles, one of them replied, 'Oh, Mariah, you used the wrong crayon! You didn't mean to do that!' She was pointing at where I'd drawn my father…I'd used the peach crayon for the skin of myself, my mother, my sister, and my brother. She writes of a formative moment in preschool when an innocent drawing of her family, "not yet fractured," elicited a puzzling reaction from a trio of teachers.
Growing up the daughter of a white mother and Black father left Mariah vulnerable to racism at an early age. I think my success in music scared him because he had no idea about, and seemingly no influence on, how I'd arrived. "I had done astonishingly well as a new artist (who had written her own hit songs), and here my father was, comparing me to arguably one of the greatest musical giants the industry has ever known, with decades of experience and endless accolades and honors to his name! I was immediately thrust back to my childhood, as if my two Grammys were two A's on my report card and he was asking me what had happened to the pluses. "After I had garnered two Grammys within my very first year in the industry, he remarked, 'Maybe if you were a producer you could win more, like Quincy Jones,'" she writes. While detailing her relationship with her perfectionist father, whom she went from seeing every Sunday as a child to very sporadically, Carey reveals that even her early career successes were cause for criticism. I also believe that somewhere inside I knew it was too late to give my brother and sister peace, and my mother her wonderful life, but I could possibly give the world a Christmas classic instead." Of writing her first holiday album, 1994's "Merry Christmas," Carey notes, "Yes, I was going for vintage Christmas happiness. And though it was never not without its issues and fights, it helped foster a deeply abiding love of the holiday that remains a driving force in her life and career. Mariah was just 6 years old.ĭespite the estrangement between her parents, Patricia and Al, who divorced before Carey turned six, and her siblings Morgan and Allison, Christmas was the one time of year her entire family would be together. "One of the cops, looking down at me but speaking to another cop beside him, said, 'If this kid makes it, it'll be a miracle,'" she recalls. The cops arrived and Patricia soon regained consciousness. Unsure if her mother was still breathing as she lay "collapsed in a crumpled pile on the floor…a chilling clarity came to me, just as a soft part of my childhood left." With Morgan having taken off in the car, Carey called one of the few numbers she'd memorized-a friend of her mother's-and asked for help. "My brother had pushed my mother with such force that her body slammed into the wall, making a loud cracking sound." "Suddenly there was a loud, sharp noise, like an actual gunshot," she writes. With one of four sections devoted entirely to her fraught upbringing as the biracial child of divorced parents with two troubled older siblings, Carey recalls one particularly harrowing fight between her mother Patricia and her brother Morgan over the use of her mom's car. While the entire book is required reading for any MC stan, here are the juiciest stories from its pages that you need to know now: "This book is composed of my memories and my mishaps, my struggles, my survival, and my songs," she continues. "Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it's been impossible to communicate the complexities and depth of my experience in any single magazine article or a ten-minute television interview.Īdele Previews Highly-Anticipated New Song ‘Easy on Me' for Fans Live on Instagram
"It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir," she writes in a note printed in the inside of the book jacket. 29, Carey doesn't hold back, revealing (with the help of co-author Michaela Angela Davis) her truth about a fraught childhood, marriages to Tommy Mottola and Nick Cannon, the arrival of Dem Babies - her fraternal twins Moroccan and Monroe - and everything in between.
In the new tell-all, released on Tuesday, Sept. Mariah Carey is telling her side of the story.Īfter three decades in the music industry - much of them spent as a topic of fascination for fans and tabloids alike - the elusive chanteuse has invited the lambs into her world with the publication of her first memoir, "The Meaning of Mariah Carey."
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