Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970 on Long Island, New York) is an American pop music singer. She is the only female artist to have a #1 song on the US charts in every year of the 1990s, the most Hot 100 #1's of any female artist in history, and also lays claim to only the second song in history ("Fantasy") to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (the first being Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone"). With 61 cumulative weeks at #1, she is also the artist with the second-most weeks spent at #1, beating the Beatles by two weeks and falling only behind Elvis Presley (80 weeks) ... (read more )