Not Another White Girl Trying to Sing Black
Mariah Interview in Ebony , March 1991 Mariah Carey: 'Not Another White Girl Trying to Sing Black' Daughter of Black father and White mother is hottest new artist By Lynn Norment Mariah Carey has a score to settle. Last summer, soon after her debut recording started racing up the record charts, she says a music critic referred to her as "another White girl trying to sing Black." Carey, indisputably the hottest new artist of the year, was infuriated. And now, here at a luncheon at Lola's restaurant in Manhattan, she has the perfect opportunity to set the record straight and "tactfully" correct the erring critic. "I'm not a White girl trying to sing Black," the 20-year-old singer says in an interview soon after. "My father is Black and Venezuelan, my mother is Irish. That makes me a combination of all those things. I am a human being, a person. What I am not is a White girl trying to sing Black." Though barely out