Soul Train rolls with Carey
A movie deal. Check. A new jewelry line. Check. Another bunch of music awards. Check. Not a bad week's work for Mariah Carey, who capped a busy seven days - and an amazing year - by taking two top trophies at Saturday's 20th Annual Soul Train Music Awards: Best Female R&B-Soul Album for The Emancipation of Mimi and Best Female Single honors for "We Belong Together".
"This has been the biggest and most successful year of my life," Carey said at the podium. "You know that whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger." The octave-shattering diva has completely rebounded from the near-career-slaying disaster that was 2001's album and movie twofer, Glitter, which led to Virgin buying out her contract because the label considered her a liability.
Carey's Mimi became the top-selling album of 2005 and has earned her a case full of awards: three Grammys, four Vibe Awards, five Billboard Awards, four Radio Music Awards, four World Music Awards and the NAACP Image Award for Best Album. Along the way she also tied Elvis Presley's for the most number one singles by a solo artist with 17. (excerpt from E! Online)
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