Through her notes on the multifaceted recording process, readers will see the author’s undeniable passion and work ethic as well as her burgeoning self-confidence. Carey openly shares the lurid details of her controlling and emotionally abusive marriage to Mottola in the 1990s. The fearful youngest daughter of a Black father and an Irish Catholic, opera singer mother, Carey and her two siblings braved physical violence, racial prejudice, and emotional trauma within a turbulent household “weighed down with yelling and chaos.” In the late 1980s, her music career began to blossom, especially after she met and fell in love with Tommy Mottola, who was the head of Columbia Records at the time. The mega-selling singer chronicles her life via the “moments that matter.”Ĭarey begins with her early childhood on Long Island in the 1970s, when she used music as a form of escapism and distraction.
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