Travel Tip: Pop Culture and Cinema in United States
Mariah Carey

After having utterly transformed herself in the extraordinary Lee Daniels film, Precious, Mariah Carey is back on the road. She is in the second week of her six week “Angels Advocate” Tour across North America - her first major tour since The “Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour” of August-October 2006.  The opening act on the “Angels Cry” Tour is RydazNrtist, a new R&B group signed to Nick Cannon’s NCredible Entertainment.  (Since mid-January, the tour has played through MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, CT; Fox Theatre in Atlanta; Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, FL; and Fox Theatre in Detroit.

The international superstar has completed her 13th studio album, Angels Advocate, a brand new collection of newly remixed duets with some of her favorite artists, performing Mariah’s favorite songs from her #1 R&B album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (released September 2009). Angels Advocate will be released on March 30th.

In advance of the Angels Advocate album release, two new Mariah Carey singles are on the way this week - “Angels Cry” featuring fellow Island Def Jam artist Ne-Yo and “Up Out My Face” featuring Nicki Minaj. New videos for both tracks were co-directed by Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey.  Both videos premiere at search site VEVO.com on Thursday, January 28th, followed by Friday debuts on MTV and BET.