Mariah Carey, America the Beautiful 

I love this because she didn't have anything at this point , no money , no glam squad , all she had was her voice and that's all she needed

She was simply “Columbia recording artist,” and now she’s “the best selling female artist of all time”

The crowd: I don’t even know who you are Mariah: You will.

“The palace now has a queen, and the goosebumps will continue.” -The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Imagine being in that stadium and hearing Mariah's Carey's voice for the first time...in her vocal prime and it's live.

When she hit the high note, she was like, "it's Mariah Carey, bitches..." Lol. This was probably when she debuted her trademark whistle register, IMO. Like MJ debuting his signature moonwalk.

Her vibrato is to die for... she's got SOUL

This was Mariah's first live televised performance, and she slayed.

Lowest note: F3 Highest belt: F5 Highest whistle: F6 She’s so unintentionally creative, it’s sickening

They didn't expect the whistle register... they're left in awe

That whistle was crystal clear and she sounded utterly effortlessly. God gifted singer.

That stadium wasn't ready for the birth of one of the absolute best singers to ever exist.

"The palace now has a queen"YES! MARIAH YOU RULE IN MUSIC

At the end, you would think that's an applause but really it's the sound of ppl looking for their wigs that were snatched up by Mariah!!

MARIAH: "I need to change the word 'sea' to "sea-AAAAAHHHH" AUDIENCE: "Why?" MARIAH: "Watch, listen and learn."

I love how she added her own flair to this song but didn’t overdo it or make it sound unrecognizable. This is the greatest rendition of “America the Beautiful” ever, imo.

You could tell she was nervous at the beginning but then she killed it and once she hit the whistle note it was OVA.

This was a historic moment. The very moment Mariah Carey first introduced the “whistle note” to the general public. The rest is history. Having this documented is truly something special. Music has never been the same since.

This is live, raw, pure emotions, resonant, vocal suicide and most of all no “let’s get loud!”

Mariah's rendition of America the Beautiful is the standard, just like Whitney Houston's rendition of the National Anthem. The best vocalist of all time.

*WARNING* Mariah is going to blow you away

no words can explain how iconic this performance wow just wow

2:05 the Palace now has a Queen. Whoever that commentator was, He’s a Nostradamus! He knew Mariah is the Queen!

Came here to cleanse my ears from Jennifer Lopez.

The palace now has a queen,, she blew everyone away in there damn

Whitney has the star spangled banner but mariah has america the beautiful

"The palace now has a queen." I'm not sure if there is any better thing to say to follow up that performance than that lol

Came here after watching J'Lo's inauguration performance to remind my ears of what perfection this. Truly the best version ever.

How can someone slay that much in her first TV appearance, and the first time performing to a large crowd? I had fainted.

Everyone was already wowed by her voice.. Then that whistle came along and sealed the deal. Yet not many people know of it which is sad.

No one that night could have possibly known they were witnessing the beginnings of a phenomenal super star! 30 years later and Mariah has had one of the most successful music careers of all time. 19 #1 hit singles and hundreds of millions of records sold worldwide. And to think, it pretty much started with this simple performance. She's an icon. What a voice!

back then: "Columbia recording artist" now: one of the best-selling musical artists of all time billboard's top female performer with 19 #1 hits leading songwriter's hall of fame inductee billboard's top female songwriter and record producer one of the most streamed pre-2000's musical artists named by the Guinness book of world records as the "Songbird Supreme" and the queen of Christmas. SHE. IS. A. LEGEND.

one of her best live performances.

THEY WERE SHOOK!

"THE PALACE NOW HAS A QUEEN! AND 30 YEARS LATER, THE GOOSEBUMPS CONTINUES..!"

I mean, we grew up with this queen as an artistic and musical standard, none of those (produced) billboard "number ones" of today will ever come close.

This makes me want to cry, just knowing it was the beginnings of the world seeing the magic that is Mariah Carey!

In 1990, Mariah's debut song Vision of Love was not #1 yet, it was still at #73 at the Billboard chart in June 2. And this game was at June 5, so basically most people in that stadium didn't know who she was and didn't pay close attention to this precious historic event.

Her vowel modification is out of this world. So good.

Even the announcer had to put some respect on it! “The palace now has a queen” said it all😂😂😂

"The palace now has a queen, and the goosebumps will continue.."

I had to come here after that disgrace Fergie called a National Anthem.

That little black dress she wore to everything in the early days 😂 It was all she had… and of course one of the greatest 5-octave voices ever heard in the world.

I love how agile, full, proud, clear, and POWERFUL her voice sounds here, absolutely unprecedented and original.

I have to listen to this once a week to calm my nerves

My weave is in another octave.

“The Palace now has a Queen” forever gives me chills

The greatest vocalist of all time

I like how the guys are "omg, yasss #slay queen" and then the camera focus them and are like "yeah, whatever" lol

"The palace now has a queen" omg yass

Mariah’s debut single “Vision of Love” was still #73 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time of this performance. This was right after her first televised performance on The Arsenio Hall Show, barely anyone knew who she was

kids this is what you called singing, no effects no auto tune. just pure talent

She done blessed the entire stadium

I was at that game. All I remember when she walked right by me was: nice dress and how does she walk in those heels? Nice performance!

33 years later and still goosebumps 👑

This was her first public major introduction to the world. She said she always wore little black dresses and kept it simple at this point because she really was just starting off and going on nothing but a dream. Now that lady has a career and discography larger than any current popular artist. Well done mariah.

This can't be topped!

This makes me wanna cry and I'm not even American

I remember seeing this on live TV, back in 1990, very, very vaguely. Nobody knew her yet but then she did her trademark Mariah whistle at the end and the rest is history...

From “a Colombia recording artist” to “Best Selling Female Artist of All Time” You just witnessed a birth of a legend, “The palace now has a QUEEN” 👸🏼

1:55 rare footage of two grown black men getting SCALPED! "the palace now has a queen" and mariah's career not even started yet.

HOW TF IS THIS VOICE EVEN REAL. Ugh this is why we need to show more respect for mariah. She's a living legend

She had an interview 2 weeks ago and she said that she's thankful of the announcer proclaiming her as the queen.

Reading her book now. So much emotion. What was going on in her mind, she had nothing but her VOICE , her dream, her kind heart . Such an angel.

.....and a star was born just like that....the rest is history

Mariah Carey herself just retweeted this video👏👏👏👏

That C5 at the end was the most resonant note i ever heard my god she’s the GOAT

If Whitney owns Star Spangled Banner, Mariah owns America the Beautiful

Mariah's voice, is just unimaginable. It is a masterclass. Nobody has a voice and has a vocal technique like her. Just nobody.

she said that a lot of her classmates didn't know she can sing so I guess we know where she was when she was not going to school.

When I sometimes feel low or discouraged, I get on RU-vid and watch this Mariah performance. I may not have her talent or skill, and that’s fine. It’s not even about that. It’s about a young girl, with a lot of nerve, believing in her abilities, at the very beginning of her career with hardly anything at all, just a lot of hope and belief in herself, and absolutely wow-ing a stadium full of people - and probably herself at the same time. I watch it to feel as hopeful and inspired as she probably felt that night many years ago. And finally realizing, that with determination, some nerve, and perseverance, maybe a dream can come true!

The guys looking at each other and shaking their heads like 'damn' is a MOOD AF

I can't believe I'm having to remove comments from this thread. If people can't enjoy a great performance by a gifted young vocalist without turning it into a forum for silly arguments, personal attacks, etc., what does that say about us? Get a life, folks. If you have to get mad, get mad about something sensible, e.g., about good people starving, being blown to bits, etc.

No one can beat her version of this, mariah carey is the real queen.

Had to clean my ears after listening to JLO version today

And the stadium realized they had just heard the best vocalist of all time sing

Who does that in 90's??? She really opened the door for these new artists today..

Clearly, the audience didn't know what was coming for them. Here comes a light-skinned shy girl, with a black woman's powerful voice. Her voice here seemed to me like a blank canvas, like the basic blue print of her style of singing, which she, as the years went by, developed by adding more color to it,?melisma. Sometimes I'd play all her songs from the early 1990s to present, and its evident there the changes her voice underwent, from the whispery humming and intentional vocal breaks, the buttery head voice and her resonant chest voice, to the powerful growls and even the crystal clear whistle register which became her trademark. It's a joy watching these videos.

Who’s here after reading about this in her book?!

I know that everyone is always JUST talking about her whistle notes... BUT, dude her runs.. Yeah her runs are also beyond PERFECTION... She is both the queen of whistle AND runs.. Or show me different

that whistle, it is so naturally done mariah is legendary

There has yet to be another singer in their prime that can out sing Mariah in her prime. She's simply iconic !

she talked about this performance in her book wow. love everything about this performance.

Her voice sounds so gospel and old school r and b.....love it....so flawless and she adds that opera high note.....gorgeous.....

It's very cool that Mariah herself tweeted this video as a Memorial Day tribute! I'm glad that she or her people discovered it. I've always felt it was a remarkable performance, especially considering it was Mariah's first appearance on the national stage.

this performance is one of her bests, man i wish she would have sang the national anthem in the emotions or daydream era. this performance is legendary among the lambs but it was at the beginning of her career and very little know about this, imagine her singing the anthem with prime vocals in her popularity prime as well. i think i get why she stood away from the anthem though despite being queen of the 90s. she was already compared so much and pinned up against whitney all the time. and after whitney's iconic super bowl 91 performance of the anthem, mariah would've only been compared to that! honestly, mariah was always really good at staying in her own lane and making her own shit! she was able to reach acclaim and become legendary without stepping on other diva's shit. whitney made the anthem hers, so i get why mariah avoided it like the plague.

Had to come and cleanse my ears after that inauguration performance 🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

She did this in my homestate!! Sadly they tore down the arena but I’m glad we have this footage

This was the birth of the legend Mariah Carey like the commentator said *"The palace now has a queen and the goosebumps will continue over the hill"* and you could see that the audience and the players were all shooked when she did those runs but when she hit that whistle note everyone had to turn their heads to see if what they heard was real or not! THEY KNEW THAT IT WAS THE BIRTH OF A LEGEND! I've heard after this performance people stormed to stores and bought her CD of "Vision of Love" and she topped the charts! I'm 19 but I wish I was born in that time to actually experience this legend in her true glory.

can you imagine being home one day watching this like "wait...i think that girl was in my beauty school class and she just stopped showing up..." lmfao i would have DIED

This is really iconic, look at how her career EXPLODED into the stratosphere, she is the biggest celebrity ever, or at least very close.

This should have been released as a single

I like the resonance at the ending. Like a waving echo

You could hear the audience burst with applause after the first big belt. I heard an interview from 99 and she was talking about how she watched this performance and was basically blown away.

She talks about this in her book. So badass

That’s my Mariah from the first time I ever heard her voice until forever. I’ll always be for Mariah!

I can watch this over and over and over and over and over and over again.

she can be singing the phone book to me and I'd probably still love it, queen

seeing the players reacting is awesome cause they were standing so stoically but they couldnt contain it. I love that song.

A young Mariah with curly hair....Appearance of an angel with a voice of an angel.