Sinéad

At the record label Chrysalis in New York, we had a Wednesday marketing meeting every week. I was a young executive and the president came in and said, “I just came back from England and we signed a super talent.” I think she was 19 – it was Sinéad. This was before she shaved her head. When we heard The Lion and the Cobra it was one of the greatest meetings I’ve ever attended – it was staggering, this record. It came out and we promoted it in a very unorthodox way. The key was getting it to go up the American college…

Popular Irish singer Sinead O`Connor`s final interview will soon be coming out, as the singer passed away recently at the age of 56. In that interview which is part of a documentary, she detailed her musical career, saying that she found music to be a therapeutic experience as well as the many of her surrounding political controversies. This interview was given to Sky TV for a documentary on the singer`s life which will air on July 29, 2023, making this her last ever recorded public appearance. Before that, she had also…

Morrissey has written a vociferous tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor, decrying the media and music industry for a lack of support for the singer.Praising her “proud vulnerability”, he writes on his website: “There is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death – when, finally, they can’t answer back You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you.“The…

‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ is a timeless song that has left a lasting impact on the music industry and the hearts of millions of listeners worldwide. With the tragic passing yesterday of Sinéad O’Connor, the most famous singer of the song, we decided to do a deep dive into its origins and highlight some of the better cover versions that there has been of it over the years.Written by Prince, the song achieved global recognition and critical acclaim after being recorded and popularised by O’Connor in 1990 but she is not the…

Almost from the moment Sinéad O’Connor appeared in the mass public consciousness, she created controversy: her first release, a song called Heroine co-written with U2’s guitarist the Edge for the soundtrack to a largely forgotten 1986 film called Captive, was swiftly followed by the singer causing a furore by expressing her support for the IRA. Years later, she described her comments as “bollocks”, but further uproar would surround O’Connor on a regular basis: about her conversion to Islam (she called non-Muslims…

Nobody could break your heart like Sinéad O’Connor. There was the song, of course – Nothing Compares 2 U. And the video with the single tear falling down her cheek. There was her ethereal beauty; the angelic skinhead. But what broke your heart most of all was the troubled soul – the love, poetry, intelligence, pain and madness, all scrambled and inseparable.Last time I interviewed her, in 2020, she told me she’d been in a psychiatric hospital for the best part of six years. But Sinéad, who died on Wednesday aged 56, would…

TroyThe first single from Sinéad O’Connor’s debut album is intensely personal. Its lyrics weave together depictions of private traumas and the struggle between resilience and self-destruction, anchored by pointed references to Helen of Troy (“Being what I am/There is no other Troy/For me to burn”) via a WB Yeats poem. Panoramic orchestral washes and then prickly keyboards buoy O’Connor’s magnificent voice, leading to a dynamic and measured performance pierced with desire, regret, anger and ferocity, where sharp-edged…

Tributes honoring singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor poured in Wednesday from all corners, following news of the Irish artist’s death. Celebrities from across the entertainment world and political figures praised O’Connor’s musical talent and her knack for calling out injustices. “Really sorry to hear of the passing of Sinéad O’Connor,” tweeted Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s taoiseach, or prime minister. “Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare. Condolences to her family, her friends…

The Irish singer-songwriter died at the age of 56 Sinéad O’Connor’s family confirmed earlier today, July 26, that the Irish singer and songwriter died at age 56. O’Connor’s bold public stances on child abuse, war, and organized religion had made her a controversial figure throughout her career, while her music and uncompromising character also inspired generations of women to challenge the status quo. Trending Following the news of her death, Jamie Lee…

A singer-songwriter of uncommon ferocity and tenderness, Sinéad O’Connor may have been fated to have a short-lived career as a pop star. Her disposition was too mercurial and too empathetic to survive the sustained glare of the spotlight that came her way once her version of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” became an international blockbuster in 1990. O’Connor detonated that stardom when she tore a picture of Pope John Paul II at the conclusion of a 1992 performance on “Saturday Night Live,” a gesture that effectively let…