Meet the Western Sydney tradie who has scored a hit collaboration with Mariah Carey: 'I can't believe it's happened'

A Western Sydney tradie turned DJ has scored a house music hit with American superstar Mariah Carey. 

Elias Daher, who goes by the moniker DJ e-Lie, turned to music during the covid lockdowns. 

The rising star recently remixed Carey’s 2005 hit Circles and released it online, and it wasn’t long before he received an email from Ministry of Sound (a global music and entertainment company) on behalf of the singer herself. 

‘The song that Mariah Carey is on, we didn’t think she was going to be on it. We were just hoping to redo it,’ Daher told The Sunday Telegraph this week.

‘But she ended up hearing it and she loved it and wanted to be part of it and I can’t believe that’s happened,’ he added. 

Daher said he’s the first Australian to collaborate with the iconic songstress, and one of the first people globally to have Carey feature in a house music tune. 

Elias went on to call Mariah ‘the queen’ and said he’s quitting his job to make more music with Ministry of Sound. 

‘[She] doesn’t really like much so for her to like it and want to feature with a boy who was born in Auburn and raised in Greystanes, it’s a big achievement,’ he enthused. 

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‘She ended up hearing it and she loved it and wanted to be part of it and I can’t believe that’s happened,’ he said of Carey (pictured) in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph this week

On Spotify, his Circles remix has had almost 1.4 million streams and more than 100,000 views on YouTube. 

Elias is also becoming an online star himself, boasting nearly 5,000 followers. 

Earlier this month Elias shared a video to Instagram of Mariah performing the Circles remix on-stage for the first time.   

‘It’s been a pretty surreal week for me but once I seen this video it officially hit me at what I have achieved!’ he wrote in the caption 

‘[She] doesn’t really like much so for her to like it and want to feature with a boy who was born in Auburn and raised in Greystanes, it’s a big achievement,’ he said