US singer Mariah Carey loses mother, sister same day

US singer Mariah Carey has lost his mother Patricia and sister Alison on Monday, August 26.

“My heart is broken that I've lost my mother this past weekend…Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.” She said

The Grammy-winning singer said she felt blessed to have spent time with her mother in the week before her death and asked for privacy.

She gave no further details about either woman’s cause of death.

Patricia, 87, was a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish-American descent.

In Carey’s 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the five-time Grammy Award-winning singer detailed her complicated relationship with her mother, saying it had caused her “so much pain and confusion”.

Carey, 55, said competition had come between them. Professional jealousy “comes with the territory of success, but when the person is your mother and the jealousy is revealed at such a tender age, it's particularly painful”, she added.

But she also spoke of the deep love she had had for her mother, writing in the dedication: “To Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe did the best she could. I will love you the best I can, always.”