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Condolences go out to Mariah Carey, as her father Alfred died of cancer on July 4th at his New York home, according to the New York Daily News. "She´s grateful that she had a chance to spend these weeks with him," her rep said. Mariah returned to Capri on Sunday to continue recording her first CD for Universal Music. Her rep said a memorial service is being planned.
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Mariahs father sadly passed away on Fourth of July. Mariah lost contact with her father when growing up, but had recently re-established it. This is what she says about her father: When I was younger, I saw him every week and after that I didn´t see him for a long time. We don´t have much in common. My father is an engineer, he is very mathematical, while I can hardly count. I resemble my mother more. She is also a singer and she support me very much in my desire to sing and entertain. But awhile ago I contacted my father again and that was very nice. Probably you see things different when you age. My father´s mother is African-American, and my father´s father is Venezuelan. I don´t think a lot of people would be able to understand it. When I was with my father, people would look at us like, "Whose child is that?" And my mother is very fair, so I obviously look more ethnic. Although it wasn´t as extreme as when I was with my father, because it´s different when people look at a black person and they see them with someone that you don´t know what they are."