Stateside Mariah Carey is a hit-maker, with songs such as Hero, Always Be My Baby and Vision of Love to name a few – in the UK she’s Mrs Christmas thanks to her festive hit…
Now BBC Two honour the Queen of Christmas with a special, All we want for Christmas is Mariah Meets Rylan a special almost-an-hour programme to air this December. Filmed on location in Los Angeles, the multi-platinum record selling, Grammy Award-winning artist Mariah Carey meets Rylan for the first time. Rylan will be quizzing Mariah about life, music, and of course, the festive season as her classic hit All I Want For Christmas Is You celebrates its 30th anniversary.
During her extensive interview with Rylan, Mariah discusses how she came up with the melody for her smash hit Hero, the jobs she had before she was famous, her multiple appearances on Top of the Pops (thankfully Jimmy had long gone by then so she wasn’t mishandled) and her love for the show, her inspirations – including Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and George Michael, working with Jackie Chan and Westlife and her reflections on this year being the 30th anniversary of her single, All I Want For Christmas Is You and album, Merry Christmas.
Plus, Rylan puts Mariah’s English accent to the test and pretends to audition her to be in the BBC’s leading continuing drama, EastEnders.
BBC Two will also celebrate Mariah with an evening of programming that night, including a newly extended edition of Mariah Carey at the BBC.
American singer, songwriter, producer and actress Mariah Carey shot to fame with her 1990 self-titled album, and has since released another fourteen studio albums. She is one of the best-selling artists in history, has five Grammy Awards to her name and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022. Among her many hits are Vision of Love, Hero, We Belong Together and of course, All I Want For Christmas Is You, which is the highest-selling single by a solo female artist in the UK and the most streamed Christmas song in the UK. The song topped the UK Singles Chart for the first time in 2020, 26 years after its release in 1994.
This world exclusive special follows in the footsteps of Cher Meets Rylan.
