Music

January, 1994

Charles M. YoungHer Huge Success, her tender age, her marriage to a music biz executive, her choice of a soul repertoire--all this has contributed to the belief that Mariah Carey is a voice of innocence masquerading as a voice of experience. Still, she has amazing vocal cords, and her videos always draw the eye. Compared with Whitney Houston, one of the two great female voices to emerge in the Eighties, she isn't a cynic. And compared with Cyndi Lauper, the other great female voice of the Eighti...

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