
Mariah Carey is tired of hiding her secret boyfriend, a music exec, so she decided to introduce him to the world.
The lucky man is Mark Sudack, the one who helped her do a massive come-back with her new album "The Emancipation of Mimi", released in 2005. The album debuted as number one in the U.S. with the highest first week sales of Carey's career, and remained in the top five of the Billboard 200 album chart for twenty-one weeks.
A friend of Mariah told the National Enquirer that the singer "has tried to keep her relationship with Mark under the radar. She guarded the romance fiercely but she's tired of hiding him."
"She considers Mark her lucky charm - and largely responsible for her best-selling CD in years. Mariah is elated - and she'll soon be making good on the promise of her hit 'We Belong Together' when she weds her beau!"
The pop diva has been married to a music exec before - Tommy Motola - for 5 years, from 1993 to 1998, but she considered him no lucky charm at all. On the contrary, she thought his influence almost threatened to destroy her career.
Mariah has recently won an American Music Award for being
the best R&B Soul singer.