Sinéad

Former president Donald Trump’s campaign to retake the White House is under fire from the estate of late pop singer Sinéad O’Connor this week after her iconic No. 1 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U” has been used at the Republican hopeful’s rallies.  The campaign for Trump, who is a lock for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency after blowing past his primary competition, played the song — written by Prince for his band, The Family, and later rearranged in a cover by the Irish singer-songwriter —…

Sinead O’Connor‘s estate has called for the removal of the late singer’s music from Donald Trump‘s political campaign rallies. During recent stops in Maryland and North Carolina in the last week, her defining single “Nothing Compares 2 U” was played during events that O’Connor herself would have adamantly denounced herself. “It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone who she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil,’”…

Sinéad O’Connor’s estate has said she would have been “disgusted, hurt, and insulted” at her version of Nothing Compares 2 U being used at Donald Trump’s political rallies.A joint statement from the late Irish singer’s estate and record label Chrysalis Records demanded the former US president “desist from using her music immediately”.It said O’Connor, who died last July aged 56, lived by a “fierce moral code” and had previously referred to Trump as a “biblical devil”.The statement said: “Throughout her life, it is well…

Cher, Mariah Carey, Sade, Oasis, Lenny Kravitz and the late Sinéad O’Connor are among the acts nominated for the first time for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the organization announced Saturday.Also on the ballot for the class of 2024 are Foreigner, Kool & the Gang and Peter Frampton (all first-time nominees) as well as five acts who’ve previously been up for induction: Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews Band, Jane’s Addiction, Eric B. & Rakim and A Tribe Called Quest. Ozzy Osbourne, who joined the…

Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer-songwriter who shot to stardom with “Nothing Compares 2 U,” died of natural causes in July, the Southwark Coroners Court in London has determined. The medical examiner’s office confirmed her cause of death to The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. “The coroner has therefore ceased their involvement in her death,” according to the office. “No further comments will be made.” Last year, the office had stated there was “no medical cause of death” given, but a direct…

Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor died of natural causes last summer, a London coroner said Tuesday. The “Mandinka” and “Nothing Compares 2 U” hitmaker was found unresponsive at her South London home on July 26 and was pronounced dead shortly after. She was 56. “This is to confirm that Ms O’Connor died of natural causes,” the Southwark Coroner’s Court said Tuesday in a brief statement obtained by the BBC. “The coroner has therefore ceased their involvement in her death.”In July, the coroner’s officer confirmed…

A coroner has determined that Sinéad O’Connor died of natural causes.A brief statement from Southwark coroner’s court in London, the city where the singer-songwriter had been living at the end of her life, said: “This is to confirm that Ms O’Connor died of natural causes. The coroner has therefore ceased their involvement in her death.”O’Connor died in July last year, aged 56. After responding to reports of an “unresponsive woman” in Herne Hill, south London, police said at the time they were not treating the death as…

Sinead O’Connor died from natural causes, a coroner in London has determined. A statement said that the coroner has “ceased their involvement” in O’Connor’s death and no other comments would be made. O’Connor died on July 26 at the age of 56. The singer’s family confirmed her death in a statement but did not share a cause of death. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad,” her family said. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very…

Irish music royalty Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan will be honored at an upcoming concert in New York City this spring. On Monday, Carnegie Hall announced a one-night-only tribute show for the two musicians, featuring the likes of Cat Power, Dropkick Murphys, and David Gray on March 20, with 100 percent of net proceeds going to charity. The event, featured as St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 20, is being billed as “Sinéad & Shane at Carnegie Hall.” Glen Hansard, Amanda Palmer, Eugene Hütz, the…

I first crossed paths with Sinéad at some point in 1985, when she had just collaborated with The Edge from U2 on a song called Heroine. She came to a party at his house and when she walked into the room, wearing this long cape, it was like a beautiful apparition. Everything stopped. She had a presence that was not just about her beauty. It was deeper than that. And then I heard her sing and it was like: “Wow!”I didn’t see her for a good while after that. Then, in 1993, I was working with the director Jim Sheridan on the…