Sinéad O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who was known as much for her private struggles and fierce expressive music, has died at 56.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” the singer’s family said in a statement reported Wednesday by the BBC. The cause of her death was not disclosed.
Sinead O'Connor Passes Away
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar expressed his condolences on the singer's demise. "Her music was loved around the world and her talent was unmatched and beyond compare," he wrote.
Kareena Kapoor also took it to her Instagram stories sharing the news article and quoting "Nothing compares to you... you Legend."
While many Twitter fans have been posting the news offering their condolences and grieving the iconic sensation's death with the hashtag of one of her song references Nothing Compares 2 u. One Twitter user Michelle M. with the user name of @chelleMurt posted a blurred image of a girl in a uniform claiming in her Twitter post to be Connor's schoolmate in Blackrock, Dublin.
I went to the same school as Sinéad in Blackrock, Dublin - I remember her so clearly. She was incredibly quiet, thoughtful, gentle, witty, and stunningly, naturally beautiful. She was fearless and fragile - and completely unique. May she find peace at last. #SinéadOConnor 1/2 pic.twitter.com/3DL7idRTdE
— Michelle M. (@chelleMurt) July 26, 2023
Connor was always publicly vocal about her mental health issues. In 2017, Connor also shared a video of her on Facebook from a motel room in New Jersey where she said to have been living, talking about her being diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, a chronic mental disease, saying that she is staying alive just for the sake of others, and if it was up to her, she'd be "gone."
Connor's teenage son died last year from suicide after which the singer Tweeted "No point of living without him" while her last Tweet on July 17 was for all the mothers who lost their children to suicide.
Known for her fierce and expressive music and her shaved head, Connor was best known for the controversy from NBC's Saturday Night Live show where she tore a photograph of Pope John Paul II. Connor was also in the news for a feud with singer Frank Sinatra for refusing to allow the star-spangled banner in one of her shows and accused Prince of physically threatening her. The singer also refused to accept the Grammy awards as she said it was too "commercialised."
In 2018, she announced of converting to Islam and changing her name to Shuhada Sadaqat Davitt but she continued to use Sinead O'Connor as her professional name.
She was a star from her 1987 debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” and became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,” shattering charts from Europe to Australia and was heightened by a promotional video featuring the grey-eyed O’Connor in intense close-up.
Connor proved that an artist could refuse to compromise and still manage to touch the hearts of millions with some of her famous songs like Nothing Compares 2 U, I Do Not Want I Haven't Got, and many more.
While talking to Independent Newspaper in 2013, Connor said music saved her as she didn't have any other abilities, and there was no leaning support for girls like her in Ireland at least in those times... it was either jail or music saying she got lucky.
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