Mariah Care's mother Patricia and sister Allison on the same day over the weekend the US singer has said in a statement my heart is broken that I've lost my mother this past weekend Carrie said on Monday sadly in a tragic turn of events my sister lost her life on the same day 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 Patricia 87 was a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish American descent in K's 2020 Memoir the meaning of Mariah Cary the five-time Grammy awardwinning singer detailed her complicated relationship with her mother saying it had caused her so much pain and confusion Carrie 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