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Mariah Carey overcame family tragedy to make new album

Losing her mum and sister on the same day in 2024 was difficult to process for Mariah Carey who opens up on new album, Here For It All. Mariah made peace with her mum before she died but wasn't so lucky with her sister. Rumoured new man Anderson. Paak has helped create new music with a "twist", although she claims they just like holding hands

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Mariah Carey back with first new album in seven years(Image: Variety via Getty Images)

THE seven year wait for an album has nothing to do with Mariah Carey being a diva, she had to overcome tragedy first.

Out now, Here For It All was being recorded when the superstar lost her mother, Patricia Kerry and estranged sister, Alison, who died on the same day last year.

Opening up about the grief she felt Mariah admitted: Going through all that other stuff while making the album, that was difficult. I dont know how I processed it.

I just know that it was extremely difficult for me to navigate and it was tough because I have always had an interesting relationship with my mother.

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Mariah with her late mother Patricia Kerry(Image: ABC)

Mariah wrote about her mother in 2020 memoir describing their relationship as a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration, and disappointment.

A year on from the loss Mariah said: It hasnt been easy, but towards the end, I was with her the whole time. and so I feel better about that. But it was tough. And my sister, I hadnt seen, in years.

And I feel really badly about that as well. But thats cause I tend to have a guilt complex about everything, but its tough my sister had an extremely hard life.

Mariah tackles love and loss on the new LP, and she felt she got closure from her mum before she passed: She said a couple of things to me that were very healing for what I needed.

[Mariah and Anderson - just holding hands]

Mariah with rumoured new man Anderson. Paak(Image: INSTAGRAM)

The new LP fuses Mariahs classic R&B sound with a few new flavours: I would say it still sounds like Mariah, but theres a little twist to it that makes it a little bit different.

Producer Anderson. Paak is a major part of that twist and is rumoured to play a major role in her private life too.

The pair have been pictured together on various locations, often holding hands, not that Mariah is letting anything slip: He just likes to hold my hand. He just grabs my hand. I dont know what hes doing. Hes a hand holding club. Thats what he is.

Sounds like a great title for the next album.

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Mariah's new album has a twist(Image: Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Here For It Alls title track is a special moment for Mariah: The last song on the album I decided first. I was like, The last song was going to be here for it all. And Im gonna make it the title track. Its just something that feels good to me, and I didnt want people to miss it.

But perhaps the albums classic Mariah moment arrives in the form of ballad Nothing Is Impossible during which she talks about surviving a gruesome fall.

It was just how I was feeling about myself and little stuff I had been through, she revealed. And, I mean, nothing is impossible. That one hits me at the heart. Its a feeling that you have to force that you keep within you.

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