Mariah Carey from the song "They Call the Wind Maria", originally from the 1951 Broadway musical "Paint Your Wagon." When Carey was three, her parents divorced. 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
Close My Eyes (Mariah Carey song) Close My Eyes (Mariah Carey song) "Close My Eyes" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey for her sixth studio album "Butterfly" (1997). It was co-written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff. While Carey solely wrote the lyrics to the song, both she and Afanasieff composed its music. They also produced and arranged the song together. A downtempo piano led song, the lyrics in "Close My Eyes" revolve around negative experiences in her life, including indirectly talking about the relationship between her and ex-husband Tommy Mottola. In September 2012, Carey revealed that it is one