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...betting big that a pack of new Latin music stars can cross over and tap the vast English-speaking market. "I have no crystal ball, but my gut tells me that Latin music can be the next big reservoir of talent for mainstream superstars," says Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola, whose company is spending millions hiring market-savvy producers like Puff Daddy and David Foster to help Latin pop join country and hip-hop in the American mainstream...
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...
...Dreamlover, have always encouraged such extravagant imaginings. But in this case, it's hard to avoid connecting the video--which Carey helped script--to her real life. In May, after four years of marriage and five multiplatinum albums together, Carey, 27, split from her husband, Sony Music president Tommy Mottola, 47, who had personally guided her career...
...weeks later, Carey fired her longtime manager, Randy Hoffman, and attorney, Alan Grubman, both of whom happen to be close associates of Mottola's. "I've grown up," she explains. "It's been a gradual process of gaining creative control." So who can resist seeing Honey as a metaphor for Carey's personal declaration of independence? Well, actually, Carey herself. "It's just a James Bond spoof," she insists. "The actors weren't meant to be Tommy or anybody else...
...about doing a movie. "It's a great way to release different creative energy," Carey says of acting. Her music is also changing--away from touchy-feely ballads to more collaborations with hip-hop artists. And her lyrics are more personal, perhaps because her separation from Sony honcho Tommy Mottola has given her more to write about. She also finds she's more written about. "Every time I meet someone now or just talk to them at a party," she says, "people speculate...