An 18-year-old Mariah Carey is pictured with a 19-year-old Will Smith in 1988 at the KIIS FM Endless Summer Jam in LA. Smith had been promoting his successful single ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’, whereas MC was preparing herself for a blossoming music career.
The photo, which is featured in the July 19th, 2010 issue of Life & Style magazine, was taken before the legendary songstress hit the big time with her debut single ‘Vision of Love’. It was just two years later that Mariah would take the world by storm as a debuting artist with that accoladed first single.
Vision of Love topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks, and won a Grammy for ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Performance’. From since then, the world was Mariah’s oyster. Picture source.
Mariah is a legend <3 despite her fuck ups recently no one can say shit else.
Vintage Mimi! So 80’s. So cute and adorable.
toya she also won the grammy for best new artist that year as well
mimi is a legend
I LOVE MARIA and toya once again you hit the nail on the head . when you wrote before they are she hit the big times, that just goes to show all people that on a thousand mile journey all of the artist and all of us had to start. and she has gone on to GREATNESS AND SO HAS WILL. it seems to me that theres a lot of people who tends to forget that the baby has to crawl before it walks.
and there a lot of others who looks up to mariah and she seems to embrace that.which shows others who does not understand that people do not just jump up and say i am going to be a great this are that , they just plan their work and work their plans. some goes through so much hard ship not of their own making and often times just give up.
but to make it out there in such a competitive world you have to work , and work and work to get to where you are st a good place in the industry. mariah has proven over and over again that she has staying power and she will give the yougins a run for their money. i have relatives in town from all over and one of my nephews is a internal medical dr. and we was all kicking it last night and i asked him what made him go through all that he has had to go through to be a medical dr. and then stufy further and he said that when he did not pass out in ananomy wheye there was a deceased body thay they had to work on and he was smart in school but he said he was the only one out of several others who did not fait at the sight of the deceased body.
saying all of that to say this about this great lady. in life IF YOU THINK IT YOU CAN DO IT .
MY NEPHEW SAID THAT HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID NOT FAINT ,,,IN ANAMONY AND HE HAS BEEN IN THE MEDICAL BUSINESS EVERY SINCE. HE TOLD ALL OF US THAT HES THINKING ABOUT GOING ON TO STUDY TO BECOME A CANCER SPECALIST. IF YOU WANTS SOMETHING HARD AND BAD ENOUGH YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT NO MATTER WHAT.
ummm gorl….
anyway, I guess Mariah loves her corny rappers lol
She was 18 and wasn’t signed yet. She got signed in November or December of 88. I’m guessing she was there with Brenda K Starr
Wow, I never would’ve thought. Interesting.
She still sounds great, but come on, after 20 years of working on a 24/7 basis, singing to an audience of half a million, night after night, how can people expect her to have the same sounding voice, exactly like the 90s? I mean, she’s a BLOODY HUMAN BEING, not a fuc*** robot!
The world music awards show should create a one off category for ‘The Greatest Female Artist of all time’. Mariah will sure as hell win it!
lmao will looks like the biggest queen there, and no one is checking for manriah…
only stan for pre2000 mimi.
not this newly self discovered tranny>>>
Even tho I can’t stan Dr.Fenty
Will sholl’ does look like a queen! LMAO
Oh & Your really missin’ out Glitter was a GREAT soundtrack
Now movie … that’s another story.
@ drfenty Please don’t let me get on the RETARDianna flopping tour ass. How many dates she canceled? 66?
Oh Dr fenty why would you say such things about Mariah, I thought that after what you go thru defending riri you would undersand how it is for other fans to listen to smack talk like that……. My Mimi is the best!!!!!!!.
Love MARIAH TO PIECES…that was before she got signed, she gettin her hussel on so people would know her name!!!
@HBF8 bish i aint scared of you..
and bishes bin tryna spill my tea for 2 months now..wat makes u think u so special?
NEXT>>
MARIAH IS A DIVA!
….but lately she been slipping on the albums……..gotta say it. ) :
The 2 of them look really good together! And to think how far they’ve both come in their careers since this picture is pretty amazing.
HOW CUTE!!! I wish we could see more pics like this
Will Smith is the by far the bigger celebrity of the 2
LMAOOOOO @playboy
& @dr fenty I was thinking the same thing LOL he look a little questionable in this picture
She looks sought of hoish like she is now. Tommy cleaned her up and when they divorced she went full throttle whore.
@drfenty you don’t even know how to spell my nickname properly. DUMP.
FLOPianna, FAILianna, GOATianna, HASBEENianna…
will smith looks gay
Though her lastest albums haven’t been selling lately, she still delivers great music, seriously! It’s a shame that the public is not embracing it!