Thanks to Sieraaj Ahmed for remind me. Happy birthday wish to Mariah Carey from all your South African fans. We love you - and we wish you a super duper day! May all your dreams and wishes come true…
For all the fans make sure you have Mariah playing on repeat in your car, your PC, your mp3 player, hifi or whatever you use to listen to music. And wherever you can call a radio station and request Mariah.
Nelson also recently recorded a song called “What a Difference a Day Makes” to benefit radio personality Don Imus’ Cattle Ranch For Kids With Cancer and co-wrote “Right to Dream” for the film “Tennessee” with Mariah Carey. “She’s a sweetheart,” Nelson says, “and she can really, really sing. It was no more left field than working with Julio Iglesias.”
Read the full article here: Billboard
The Irish boyband Westlife are currently in South Africa on a promotional tour for their new album, Face to Face. An hour ago, I phoned in to talkshow “3 Talk” on SABC 3 and got the honor of talking to Westlife. I tried really hard to squeeze Mariah into the question (even though the telephone staff hinted to me not to focus the question only on Mariah but I did it anyway). Me: “I just want to let them [WestLife] know that they have amazing voices. I’ve been a really big fan from 2000, especially the “My Love” song. My question is with the song that they’ve sung with Mariah Carey, “Against All Odds,” what have they picked up and learned from her? I know she’s a huge mega star and they did say she’s basically the biggest star they collaborated with. And what other advice do they have for upcoming singers?”
Noleen, host: “Alright Evasen, thank you very much, what have you learned from Mariah Carey?”
Shane: “How professional she is.”
Mark: “Yeah, she’s very professional, I think you know she’s kind of blasted with so many rumors of her being quite stroppy and bitchy or whatever, you know all we can speak of is our personal experience with her that she was very nice, very professional, very hard-working. She worked till 6 o’ clock in the morning with us in the studio, you know, she sat there with us and made up harmony, she’s a real artist if you know what I mean, she’s not just somebody that people make her voice sound amazing by computer and stuff. She’s really involved.”
Noleen: “Yes she is, I mean her voice is incredible.”
Shane: “Incredible, yeah incredible.”
Mark: “And we learned that no matter how big you get, it’s an important quality to remain friendly and down to earth in your nature ’cause she is.”
Kian and Nicky basically agreed. Listen to an audio here…