Mariah Carey's reputation as a diva Mariah Carey (b. 1970) is one of the most worldwide famous and best-selling female singers in pop music industry who has been on stage since the early 1990s. As a pop diva Mariah has earned a contrasting reputation. The pop star can be considered as an extraordinarily talented person who with the power of her voice can "convey the emotional nuances of the music to her audience" (Moohan, 2008, 163) and has extravagantly behavior and claims. Among the essential factors which allowed Mariah Carey to gain her diva status there is a complex of qualities: her significant voice, her songs authorship, image development, presentation in video clips and on the media. First of all, it is important to point out that the singer possesses an exceptionally beautiful voice, high soprano (Vincent, 2017), with the ability to sing in an outstanding way as she can reach the higher notes than most of other singers. Her "husky speaking voice" presents a profound contrast to her high singing voice, that consequently creates, as recorded, "a vocal range spanning five octaves" …show more content…
In one of the interviews she tells the story about her talent and particularly whisper singing discovery crediting her mother, an opera singer (Desantis, 2017), with her progress in singing (Mariahxlambily, 2017). That is to say the pop star most probably followed the pattern of her mother in her desire for building a career as a singer. Later, at the age of 23, Mariah Carey married her Columbia Records boss Tommy Mottola, 20 years her senior, who had seen the young singer's potential to become a top-star. Their meeting marked Mariah's rise to fame as he turned out to have made her "career development a top priority" (Rollingstone, 2017). So Carey's marriage to a successful and influential man brought her into the music industry and established her reputation as a
Someone who is revolutionary is never forgotten and Selena Quintanilla’s legacy thrives as though as she’s still alive.We all know who Selena was, a young, talented Mexican-American woman who was transformative and let’s not forget about Jennifer Lopez portraying her in the movie “ Selena”. She was a cutting edge singer that broke the standard ways of Tejano. Today pop culture performers resemble her style and some even say she was a huge inspiration for them."I think she is a legend and I admire her. She was so talented. Even though she didn't know who I was… I was still so excited that I got the opportunity!"( Beyonce). Her career began as a child and from there she blossomed into a woman that would change the music scene forever. An amazing human being was taken from this world way too soon, but she was an unforgettable talent that had accepted who she was, and represented
Something that rose her fame very much was when her song “Carousel was featured as the song in the TV show American Horror Story: Freak Show. Melanie also gained a lot of fame in 2015 when she released her album Cry Baby. Many people who did not know Melanie before this album began liking her and enjoying her music. Several people do not actually know that Melanie was on The Voice. She appeared in season 3 and was on team Adam. She did not win the show, though she made it to week 5. Melanie has worked very long for her fame and has come extremely far because of her hard work and
INTRODUCTION Attention-getter: She won more than 30 singing and dancing competitions as a child, she was born in Houston Texas on September 4th, 1981, she is an actor and outstanding singer. Can you guess who I’m talking about yet? If not, I am talking about Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter also knowns as Queen B or just Beyoncé. I started listening to Beyoncé’s music at a
Fantasia Barrino personality development falls under the personality theorist by the name Karen Horney. A key concept of Horney’s theory is neurotic trends. Neurotic trends are three categories of behaviors and attitudes toward oneself and others that express a person’s needs (Duane & Sydney, 2009). The neurotic types are character strategies that individuals create to cope with the anxiety-hostility conflict (Horney, 1937). The three trends are movements that are used dealing with people. The movements are toward, against, and away from other people. Karen Horney She fits in all three movements. Fantasia Barrino fits in with the movement against other people which is the aggressive personality. The aggressive personality is defined as behaviors and attitudes associated with the neurotic trend of moving against people, such as a domineering and controlling manner (Duane & Sydney, 2009). As a child she motivated others with the singing voice that she have. At her childhood age she had the aggressive personalities. Her personality was motivated to better different people that where in her life during her childhood stage. She grew in up poverty during her late adolescence years. But she had the admiration to get out and she the world that she can make it in life. She
Madonna’s main objective was to set an outstanding image for herself. She always makes her music a number 1 priority. Her personality demonstrates a vision of her music, we can see how the music can play. Nothing, only does her personality represent her music, but it’s a gateway to her actions. Madonna started
Motivating, captivating, innovative, these are some of the words among others that describe the influence Stevie Nicks has had on music and popular culture. Nicks has continued to charm audiences worldwide with her natural ability to inspire and touch the hearts and minds of fans worldwide. Nicks ' music allows her to reach out to people as if she were their own friend, writing and performing songs with melodies about themes of affection and suffering. By speaking honestly about her personal hardships, many fans acknowledge Nicks as an encouragement to lifting them to overcome their own challenges. Nicks ' musical individuality has continued to express her identity to this generation. Throughout her distinctive image and experience to create and sing wholehearted songs, or using her fame to encourage charitable
Two women from two different backgrounds have so much in common yet they are so different. One grew up in Houston, Texas while the other grew up in Saint Michael, Barbados. Even though these two women have had very different up bringing the one thing they have in common is their great voices. These two women’s background, musical style, and other career ventures make them both two of the best female artist in their field.
It appears that once a year a famous person is reamed because of a technical malfunction or a fan gets upset and the issue of who lip syncs is in the news. As the world knows, it was Mariah Carey who got the cold shoulder from fans around the world after technically difficulties left her unable to follow her own songs.
Attention material: She is the most popular female artist since 2006 when she started as a country singer; she has won many Grammy Awards, Kids Choice Awards and People’s Choice Awards with her incredible talent. She is generous, creative and successful; this could be no other than our beloved Taylor Swift.
4) Gaga’s launch as an artist up to 2009 was a success. Her talent and unique personality opened doors for her. Since it was hard to get new artist music on radio, Gaga began touring in small venues so as to gain popularity. She gained a huge fan base as well through optimizing social media cites and Gaga’s team organized some interviews with about 50 popular music bloggers. As a result the interviews reached
Most people dream of being famous, but only a few ever achieve this goal. Adele had always wanted to make music, but she never imaged that she would become famous. On her long journey to fame, Adele had to overcome doubt, problems with her personal life, and challenges with her career. Throughout her life, Adele had something to overcome, but with the support of people who cared about her, Adele achieved her goals in life. Adele is now a famous pop star still rising to fame.
Founded dead in her London apartment, Amy Winehouse who was a five time Grammy award winner known to have battled with alcoholism and drug addiction, has left a huge impact on the music industry especially on me not just by her repetition that everyone known about her before her death but what led her to her death and some of her songs that effected so many people life. Therefore, she, the legendary diva will be my choice for this essay. A diva use to mean an opera singers but now mostly a day it is a female singer is famous for her contralto vocals, charisma, reputation and her music. She knows how to express and show her feeling, Amy Winehouse was famous for her strong voice that showed her feelings by writing some of her own songs and her talent in how to blend in music types together, but despite all that she was famous of being strong fighting women and that’s exactly what a diva should be.
In the current music industry, the normalization of the over-sexualization of women makes the whole society focus on female performers’ body image rather than their music. Many female singers, especially pop stars, confront the challenge between sex-positivity and eroticism. After the likes of oversexualized female superstars had become the new definition of pop music, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins changes the way that the music industry markets female acts. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, the 28 years old singer is known for her soulful voice and meaningful songs that consistently top the charts. As the first artist having two titles in the top five of both the U.K. singles and album charts since the 1960s, Adele conveys a simple and powerful
Rihanna is "singer's powerful voice". She is a confident and distinctive voice. I believe that anyone who has listened to music she loved her, and overlook the color of her skin. Music style is Hip-Hop and R&B. Video Hits in the channel is Music video " Diamonds ". So RihannaVEVO have to subscribe for up to 18,352,726.
Successful strategies are based on several common elements, such as: 1)Simple, consistent long-term goals 2)Profound understanding of the competitive environment, 3)Objective appraisal of resources, and 4)Effective implementation (Grant, 2010). As our case study shows, Madonna has had a firm grasp on these elements. Her long-term goal to be the greatest female performer is very simplistic and long term. Her understanding of the competitive environment is exceptional, throughout the years she understood exactly the direction that music was taking. In the 1980's she understood that dance clubs and DJ's were the future and if she wanted to break into the industry she needed to start there. In the late 1980's and into the 1990's she utilized sex and seduction to keep in public's eye. By the late 2000's she understood that music was going away from the recorded format and the money to made was in live performances. Madonna has understood throughout the years that as the industry was constantly changing that she would need to as well to stay relevant. She has been successful at promoting her strengths, while shadowing her weaknesses. Madonna has developed her image throughout the years to