“Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka seem to have broken up,” published a few days ago “People”, a reference medium in the USA for confirmations of new loves, but also divorces and separations. According to the magazine, the singer had not accompanied her partner of seven years since her “Merry Christmas One and All” tour began last October. Additionally, a source close to the pop diva confirmed to the magazine that Carey would be spending Christmas in Aspen with her two children, Monroe and Moroccan, born from her relationship with Nick Cannon in 2011, but without Tanaka. Another reference media in these matters today was PageSix, which fully confirmed the separation and a source close to the former couple reported the reasons: the age difference between the two played an important role in the decision. Tanaka, 40, and Carey, 54, want different things. He wanted to expand the family, she didn't.
This discreet breakup marks the end of a seven-year relationship that began in 2016, although Carey and Tanaka had previously worked and known each other for ten years. A relationship that was initially viewed with suspicion: firstly because of the 14-year age difference between the two and secondly because Tanaka was one of the artist's dancers and also became his manager shortly after the departure began.
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The media at the time was critical of Tanaka's character, warning that it could be a complete disaster for Mariah's career, which was in crisis in 2016, ahead of her reappearance as the Christmas Queen. They compared the situation to what Britney Spears experienced with Kevin Federline, as Tanaka was also a dancer and knew nothing about portraying a superstar of Carey's stature. However, over time the waters calmed down and the relationship received the approval of the press and media, which was always very critical of everything related to the artist. Contrary to what it may have seemed at the beginning, Tanaka remained in a discreet background, as could not be otherwise in the hands of a diva of Carey's stature.
Little was known about Tanaka's love life before Carey, but Mariah's life has been in the public domain since the beginning of her career. She married Tommy Mottola, President of Sony Music, and they were married from 1993 to 1998. It was his first marriage, and Mottola was also responsible for launching his music career. They met at a party in 1988. “The relationship really came about through intense collaboration. I mean, a situation arose where the… “We worked very hard 24 hours a day, seven days a week to make the first album, which took a year and a half or more,” Mottola himself explained in an interview in 2013 about this friendship, which of course developed into something more . When they said yes, he was 44 years old; She is 23. Over the years, Carey herself has criticized that relationship, calling it toxic and abusive: “I had no freedom as a human being. It was almost like being locked up,” the singer said in an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine.
After her divorce, the singer had a short romance with Mexican singer Luis Miguel, which lasted from 1999 to 2000. She later married comedian and television host Nick Cannon in 2008. Cannon confessed that the artist was the great love of his life, but the incompatibility of personalities ruined their marriage: “Imagine if Trump and Putin had to live in the same house,” he told the Los Angeles Times in reference to their marriage. They divorced in 2016 but welcomed twins Moroccan and Monroe Cannon in 2011. Following that divorce, Carey was engaged to Australian businessman James Packer: a brief relationship and an even shorter engagement that also ended in 2016.
During this time, she began her last relationship to date, the one with Tanaka, which, like the diva's greatest performances, seems to end right around Christmas.