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Mariah Carey is riding high on the album charts again with her new release “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” and an upcoming role in the acclaimed film “Precious,” but she hangs on to the childhood trauma of being the product of a mixed-race relationship, her mother being Irish American and her father half black and half Venezuelan. Her mother, the songbird recently told The Guardian newspaper, “is among the whitest people I know,” and also intensely proud of her ethnicity. “White people have a difficult time with (mixed race). It’s like, my mother’s white — she’s so Irish, she loves Ireland, she’s like, yay, Ireland! Waving the flag and singing ‘When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.’ And that’s great. I appreciate that and respect it,” says Carey. But growing up with a black father often resulted in plenty of confusion and hurt feelings, she added. “There’s a whole other side of me that makes me who I am and makes people uncomfortable. My father identified as a black man. No one asked him beca
Pop superstar Mariah Carey’s new album might be called “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel”, but she charmed everyone at a press conference in Seoul, Tuesday. Wearing a fitted black mini-dress and knee-high boots, Carey made her grand entrance at the press conference with a flurry of camera flashes lighting up the room. “Annyeonghaseyo,” Carey said, smiling at the room full of local and international reporters at the Rose Hall of the Grand InterContinental Hotel, Samseong-dong, southern Seoul. “I’m very excited to be back here in Korea after six years. I always said I wanted to see my fans and experience different things in Korea again,” she said. She arrived Monday evening in Seoul to promote her 12th album. “Yesterday, at the airport, we were tired, but when we saw the fans there, and the fans were beyond supportive. I feel like I have a family all over the world, and here is part of my family too,” she said. Asked about how she came up with the album’s title, Carey said she originally co
Mariah Carey reveals how she hangs on to the childhood trauma of being the product of a mixed-race relationship, her mother being Irish American and her father half black and half Venezuelan. » Full Story on IrishCentral.com Sources: IrishCentral.
