瑪麗亞・凱莉
Mariah Carey

context: zh_tw: 凱莉三歲時，她的父母就離婚了。在離婚之後，姐姐愛莉森由父親撫養，而瑪麗亞和哥哥摩根則由母親撫養。凱莉自此和父親分居，再也沒有見過父親一面。凱莉回憶道，在四歲之前，她開始在晚上躲在被窩下面偷偷聽電臺，並跟著一起唱歌，從音樂中尋找內心的寧靜。在小學時，凱莉在她喜歡的科目，如音樂、美術與文學等，取得了較好的成績。但她對其它科目則沒什麼興趣。在幾年家庭貧困後，帕特里夏有了足夠的錢將一家人搬去紐約一個穩定富裕的區域。這之後，凱莉開始創作詩歌，併為這些詩歌作了旋律，奠定了她在高中成為一名創作歌手的基礎。1987 年，凱莉從高中畢業。凱莉擅長音樂，在其母親的指導下能掌握並控制哨音。帕特里夏曾教導凱莉演唱古典歌劇，但由於凱莉對它不感興趣，因此帕特里夏從未強迫凱莉以其為生。凱莉回憶道，她對創作的歌曲一直保密，但帕特里夏 “從來就不是一個愛強迫人的媽媽。她從沒講過‘讓它（歌曲）更有歌劇的感覺’這類話。我十分尊重歌劇，但它真的對我毫無吸引力。” 在高中時，凱莉開始和加萬・克里斯托弗一起寫歌。他們需要一名會彈琴的助手：“我們打給一個人但他沒來，所以我們偶然碰見了本（・馬古里斯），本來到錄音室，但他琴彈得真的不怎麼樣 — 他更像一名鼓手 — 但那一天之後，我們保持著聯絡，我們也突然有點明白怎麼做詞曲創作人了。” 凱莉和克里斯托弗開始在克里斯托弗父親開的一家商店的地下室創作歌曲。他們創作的第一首作品名為 “Here We Go 'Round Again”，凱莉稱這首作品有摩城般的感覺。這之後，他們開始創作完整的樣本唱片。凱莉也搬去了曼哈頓一個單間公寓居住。在那段時間，凱莉去許多餐館上班，但老是做滿兩週就被炒了。雖然凱莉缺錢付房租，但她依舊不改自己音樂夢想，為了完成一張樣本唱片，凱莉經常和馬古里斯工作到深夜。在創作完四首樣本歌曲之後，凱莉開始嘗試將它們送去唱片公司，但屢屢受挫。不久之後，凱莉認識了流行歌手布蘭達・凱・史達。
en: After their separation, Alison moved in with her father, while the other two children, Mariah and brother Morgan, remained with their mother. Carey would grow apart from her father, and would later stop seeing him altogether. By the age of four, Carey recalled that she had begun to sneak the radio under her covers at night, and just sing and try to find peace within the music. During elementary school, she excelled in subjects that she enjoyed, such as music, art, and literature, but did not find interest in others. After several years of financial struggles, Patricia earned enough money to move her family into a stable and more affluent sector in New York. Carey had begun writing poems and adding melodies to them, thus starting as a singer-songwriter while attending Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, where she graduated in 1987. Carey excelled in her music, and demonstrated usage of the whistle register, though only beginning to master and control it through her training with her mother. Though introducing her daughter to classical opera, Patricia never pressured her to pursue a career in it, as she never seemed interested. Carey recalled that she kept her singer-songwriter works a secret and noted that Patricia had "never been a pushy mom. She never said, 'Give it more of an operatic feel.' I respect opera like crazy, but it didn't influence me."While in high school, Carey began writing songs with Gavin Christopher. They needed an assistant who could play the keyboard: "We called someone and he couldn't come, so by accident we stumbled upon Ben [Margulies]. Ben came to the studio, and he really couldn't play the keyboards very well – he was really more of a drummer – but after that day, we kept in touch, and we sort of clicked as writers." Carey and Christopher began writing and composing songs in the basement of his father's store during Carey's senior year. After composing their first song together, "Here We Go 'Round Again", which Carey described as having a Motown vibe, they continued writing material for a full-length demo. She began living in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, which she shared with four other female students. Carey worked as a waitress for various restaurants, usually getting fired after two weeks. While requiring work to pay for her rent, Carey still had musical ambitions, as she continued working late into the night with Margulies in hopes of completing a demo. After completing her four song demo tape, Carey attempted to pass it to music labels, but failed each time. Shortly thereafter, she was introduced to rising pop singer Brenda K. Starr.
qas: question: zh_tw: 凱莉在推銷她的樣本歌曲受挫後，被介紹給誰？
en: To whom was Carey introduced after failing to market her demo tape?
answers: zh_tw: text: 布蘭達・凱・史達
en: text: Brenda K. Starr

context: zh_tw: 1995 年 10 月 3 日發行的《夢遊仙境》融合了《音樂盒》的流行樂感情，受其 R&B 和嘻哈風格影響。專輯的第二首單曲《甜蜜一日》是受大衛・科爾去世的啟發創作的。歌曲在百強榜榜首位置待了創紀錄的 16 個星期，成為史上佔據榜首位置時間最長的歌曲之一。《夢遊仙境》成了她在美國最暢銷的專輯，也是她個人繼《音樂盒》後，第二張獲得 RIAA 鑽石銷量認證的唱片。專輯再度讓她在日本成為唱片最暢銷的國際藝人，銷量達 220 萬張，全球銷量最終達到 2500 多萬張。從口碑上看，專輯被封為凱莉迄今為止最棒的專輯：《紐約時報》提名它為 1995 年最佳專輯之一，並寫道：“最佳的剪輯將甜美的 R&B 引向結構精煉的新高峰...... 凱莉的歌曲創作向前邁進了一大步，變得愈發放鬆、性感，對砰動的陳詞濫調減少依賴凱莉再度選擇啟動名為夢遊仙境世界巡演短期世界巡演，共設七站，日本三站，歐洲四站。。” 門票發售時，凱莉在日本最大體育場東京巨蛋的三場演出的全數 15 萬張不到三個小時便售罄，打破了此前由滾石樂隊創下的紀錄。
en: Following Music Box, Carey recorded a duet with Luther Vandross; a cover of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross's "Endless Love", and began working on an unknown project throughout the summer of 1994. In October, Billboard announced that she would release a holiday album later that year.  Carey's album Merry Christmas was released on November 1, 1994 and eventually became one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time, with global sales of over 15 million copies. Upon its release, the album's first single, "All I Want for Christmas Is You", was described as a "holiday standard" and considered "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon." Commercially, it became the world's 10th best-selling single by December 2018, with global sales exceeding 16 million copies. By the end of the holiday season of 1994, Carey and Afanasieff had already begun writing material for her next studio album which would be released late the following year.Released on October 3, 1995, Daydream combined the pop sensibilities of Music Box with downbeat R&B and hip hop influences. Critically, the album was heralded as Carey's best to date; The New York Times named it one of 1995's best albums, and wrote, "best cuts bring R&B candy-making to a new peak of textural refinement [...] Carey's songwriting has taken a leap forward and become more relaxed, sexier and less reliant on thudding clichés." The album's second single, "One Sweet Day", a collaboration with R&B group Boyz II Men, remained atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a record-breaking 16 consecutive weeks, becoming the longest-running number-one song in history. Daydream became her biggest-selling album in the United States, and became her second album to be certified Diamond by the RIAA, following Music Box. The album sold 2.2 million copies in Japan alone and eventually reached global sales of over 25 million copies.Due to the album's success, Daydream and its singles were respectively nominated in six categories at the 38th Grammy Awards. Carey, along with Boyz II Men, opened the event with a performance of "One Sweet Day". However, Carey did not receive any award, prompting her to comment "What can you do? I will never be disappointed again. After I sat through the whole show and didn't win once, I can handle anything." Following her awards ceremony disappointments, Carey opted to embark on the Daydream World Tour. It had seven dates, three in Japan and four throughout Europe. When tickets went on sale, Carey set records when all 150,000 tickets for her three shows at Japan's largest stadium, Tokyo Dome, sold out in under three hours, breaking the previous record held by The Rolling Stones.
qas: question: zh_tw: 哪一張是凱瑞在美國最暢銷的專輯？
en: what becames carey's biggest selling album in the US?
answers: zh_tw: text: 《夢遊仙境》
en: text: Daydream