Why Mariah Carey matters

Chan, Andrew, 1986- author.

Book 2023

"Mariah Carey is immediately known for two things: a stratospheric, five-octave vocal range and massive success on the charts (she has more Billboard no. 1 singles than any other solo artist). As Andrew Chan points out in this book, that fed easily into the narrative around an artist who came of age in the excess-riddled 1990s -- and was married to Sony CEO Tommy Mottola. Chan, though, is digging deeper into her catalog and her biography to argue...

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