Music Box Tour
| Tour by Mariah Carey | |
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| Associated album | Music Box |
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| Start date | November 3, 1993 |
| End date | December 10, 1993 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 6 in North America |
| Mariah Carey concert chronology | |
The Music Box Tour was a mini concert tour in 1993 by American recording R&B artist Mariah Carey, in support of her Diamond-certified album, Music Box. It is Carey's first headlining tour, visiting six cities in North America. The outing started on November 3, in Miami, Florida and ended on December 10, in New York City.
This was Carey's first tour. She had not done a lot of public singing in her early years in the music industry (partly due to stage fright) and she had become a big star with two top-selling albums and five number one singles before she ever gave a significant performance before a live audience. That had come in 1992 on the MTV Unplugged television program, which got a good reception. Then in July 1993, she had given a concert before a largely private audience in Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York, which was used to make a NBC television special and later the Here Is Mariah Carey video release. Thus in late 1993, she decided to conduct a short United States tour to promote her album Music Box, which had been released two months previously. This meant, however, that she would be starting at the top of the venue scale, playing her first real concerts in arenas, rather than working her way up from smaller venues as is more customary.
Thus, Carey's opening concert at the Miami Arena before 15,000 people drew national media attention. Carey later related that "I was OK until I had to walk up this ramp on to the stage and I heard this deafening scream and it was kinda like everything in my life, this whole incredible whirlwind I'd been going through, it had all been leading up to that insane moment and there I was.... And then they killed me. Not the audience – they knew it was my first show, they were very supportive. I got really bad reviews, though. Well, there were a lot of critics out to get me: this girl's sold all these albums, she's never toured, let's get her. So they did. I turned on the TV in bed that night and the CNN guy was saying, 'The reviews are in and it's bad news for Mariah Carey.' It really hurt me a lot."
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