What's bigger; Mariah Carey's voice, or Mariah Carey's hair in this picture? Yet another person who seems to have been a natural-born star, we believe that Carey's hair here is all her own - although wearing a huge hairpiece for a yearbook photo would be precisely the sort of larger-than-life behavior we've come to expect from this one-of-a-kind diva. Unbelievably, Carey was subjected to racist bullying when she was growing up, because her father is African-American. We think it's safe to say that she's had the last laugh over the bullies.
Very rarely has there been a pop singer with an octave range as large as Carey's. Whether she's singing one of her more hip-hop influenced songs like 'Honey' or the softer 'Endless Love,' you're never in any doubt about who's singing from the moment she opens her mouth. All of us think about Carey every single Christmas; people will still be singing 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' fifty years from now.