Word: mariah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIVORCED. MARIAH CAREY, 27, chart-topping singer-songwriter; from Sony Music Entertainment chief TOMMY MOTTOLA, 49; after five years of marriage and a 10-month separation. Carey recorded her biggest hits for Sony labels...
This selection spans various genres of music, with one floor almost entirely devoted to classical music and a separate listening room for songs with a Latin beat. A trip to the second floor yields an impressive collection of 12" vinyls, including selections from Mariah Carey ($9) and the So So Def Bass All-Stars...
...Rose Is Still a Rose, is the 55-year-old singer's first album in seven years and her finest in two decades. Rose, due out March 10, boasts an all-star squad of producers, including Sean ("Puffy") Combs (who's worked with rapper the Notorious B.I.G.), Jermaine Dupri (Mariah Carey, Usher), and Lauryn Hill (of the hip-hop band the Fugees). Still, this is Aretha's show. Numbers like the cardiotonic title track urge female self-esteem; another song, the sweetly epiphanous ballad Love Pang, links the everyday chores of life to recollections of romance. Franklin talked with TIME...
Franklin: [Erykah] Badu is a very good vocalist. I like her wit. She's kind of a cross between Diana Ross and Billie Holiday. Mariah Carey has done some things I like. Her vocals and production have a very tight quality...
Dion seems to have adopted the sound that Mariah Carey abandoned several years back--that crushing, crashing, pomp-and-circumstance style that seeks to swallow the listener up in production and emotion. The main problem with Let's Talk About Love is that Dion's sense of dynamics is only a trifle more refined than Saddam Hussein's sense of international protocol. She doesn't build songs, she demolishes them, she overruns them, like Caesar conquering Gaul. Oh, she tries to rein herself in, but to no avail. The song The Reason starts off gently, then, out of nowhere, Dion...