Mariah Carey News Archive (Group 1, Page 9)

✦ Her father is half Venezuelan and half African-American, while her mother is Irish-American.
✦ Was honored at the VH1 Save the Music Foundation's 10th Anniversary Gala on September 20, 2007 for her dedication to VH1's Save the Music Foundation, which aim is to improve the quality of education in America's public schools through music.
✦ Rarely showed up for class, because of which she was jokingly named "Mirage" by her high school friends.
✦ Usually credited as Songbird, MC, or Mimi.
✦ Before becoming an actress, she already completed 500 hours of beauty school, worked as a hair sweeper in a salon, and also worked as a waitress and as a coat check girl.