Irish singer Sinead O’Connor dies aged 56
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Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, identified for topping the charts world wide with the 1990 tune “Nothing Compares 2 U”, has died on the age of 56, Irish nationwide broadcaster RTE quoted her household as saying on Wednesday.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” RTE quoted an announcement from the singer’s household as saying.
Brash and outspoken – her shaved head, pained expression, and shapeless wardrobe a direct problem to fashionable tradition’s long-prevailing notions of femininity and sexuality – O’Connor modified the picture of ladies in music within the early Nineties.
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She crashed onto the worldwide music scene in the beginning of the last decade together with her mesmerizing model of the tune initially written by Prince, going through straight into the digicam for the music video that has subsequently been considered virtually 400 million instances on YouTube.
Known as a lot for her outspoken views on faith, intercourse, feminism and struggle as for her music, she can be remembered in some quarters for ripping up a photograph of Pope John Paul II throughout a tv look on “Saturday Night Live.”
“Everyone wants a pop star, see?” she wrote in her 2021 memoir “Rememberings”. “But I am a protest singer. I just had stuff to get off my chest. I had no desire for fame.”
O’Connor transformed to Islam in 2018 and altered her title to Shuhada Sadaqat, although continued to carry out underneath the title Sinead O’Connor.
“Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare,” Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar posted on messaging platform X, previously referred to as Twitter, sharing his condolences with “all who loved her music.”
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