Just in case you do not know who this is, it is Mariah Carey, and it is also the first time she ever appeared on a card - or technically, a sticker.
Her hit song, "All I want for Christmas is You" is one of the most played songs of the modern era, and one of the biggest selling singles ever. It was first released in October 1994, simply as the first single from her forthcoming Christmas album. Instead of that it has been number one in every decade, and is very likely to be playing in a background near you this Christmas too.
Now this card is half of the entire full length portrait, which occupies the album space for cards 22 and 23. And here it is. And just for good measure, cards 24 and 25 are also of her, similarly two separate images with only three borders, which, when placed together, forms in to a whole full length portrait.
A checklist of the entire set of these stickers can be found at The Trading Card Database/SH95 - and we are certain it will awaken lots of memories for those of us whose musical era this was.
As for me, I note the cards of Green Day, Nirvana, and U2 (or Bono, anyway). Though sadly there are not many actual card images shown from this set. On which note you do have to sign up to the site in order to donate your scans, but it could be something some of us, including me, may be willing to do, to lend a hand, in the cartophilic spirit?
Anyway I have done some checking and it appears the first Panini "Smash Hits Collection" was a set of 144 stickers issued in 1984, but that was four years after Panini first embraced the music world with their 1979 "Rock and Pop Collection". So I have to wonder why they left the scene and then returned to it? Any ideas....?