--- title: Watch Mariah Carey Sing with Jussie Smollet on 'Empire' description: Mariah Carey made her debut as a guest star on the third season of 'Empire,' where she joined Jussie Smollett for a duet. canonical: https://time.com/4521586/mariah-carey-empire-song/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-06T18:30:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:24.834Z og:title: Watch Mariah Carey Sing Her Heart Out on 'Empire' og:description: She joins Jussie Smollett for a dazzling duet og:url: https://time.com/4521586/mariah-carey-empire-song/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Mariah Carey Sing Her Heart Out on 'Empire' twitter:description: She joins Jussie Smollett for a dazzling duet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Mariah Carey Sing Her Heart Out on _Empire_ > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 6, 2016 6:30 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 6, 2016 6:30 PM UTC After much anticipation, elusive chanteuse, [future documentary series (read: not reality tv) star](http://time.com/4337905/mariah-carey-mariahs-world-trailer/), and [all-star shade queen](http://time.com/4340106/mariah-carey-jennifer-lopez-nicki-minaj/) Mariah Carey made [her long-awaited debut as the hit singer Kitty for _Empire_‘s third season](http://time.com/4443753/mariah-carey-empire-tv/) on Wednesday night. As expected, the performance was essentially Mariah Carey being her truest self (that is, [a very fabulous diva with full range](http://time.com/4356718/mariah-carey-bathtub-interview-jimmy-kimmel/)) in what might be the most telling case of art imitating life, but the true gem of the night was the duet that she performed with Jussie Smollett, who plays sensitive musician Jamal Lyon on the dramatic show. The track that they sing together, “Infamous,” is [now available to stream](https://twitter.com/AppleMusic/status/783894557519908864), but you can also watch their performance below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4521586/mariah-carey-empire-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4521586/mariah-carey-empire-song/"},"headline":"Watch Mariah Carey Sing Her Heart Out on Empire","datePublished":"2016-10-06T18:30:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:24.834Z","description":"She joins Jussie Smollett for a dazzling duet","url":"https://time.com/4521586/mariah-carey-empire-song/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Culture","Mariah Carey","empire"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4521586/mariah-carey-empire-song/","name":"Watch Mariah Carey Sing Her Heart Out on Empire"}}]}] ```