Mariah Carey
Birth Place:
Long Island, New York, USA
Birth Date:
March 27, 1970
Race or Ethnicity:
Irish, African, Venezuelan
The American singer was born to an Irish mother named Patricia Hickey and a father of Venezuelan and African heritage named Alfred Roy Carey. Mariah stated in an interview that her mother is a third generation Irish American.
She also mentioned on Lopez Tonight that she has a Venezuelan great grandmother on her father’s side. Unfortunately, her bi-racial family was the target of racial slurs and hostility while young Mariah was growing up.