Paying tribute to Irish star Sinead O’Connor. In the past weeks, The Irish Spirit; He lost one of his freest, most emotional, most talented and most creative icons. Irish star musician and singer Sinéad O’Connor, or Shuhada’ Sadaqat, as she chose the name after converting to Islam, passed away at the age of 56. She was not just an artist who made music, but an activist and freedom fighter who used music as a form of expression.
Who is Sinéad O’Connor?
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1966, Sinéad O’Connor spent a childhood in which she was exposed to her mother’s physical violence and criminal orientation. When she was 15 years old, she was locked up in a foster home due to the crimes she committed and skipping school. Years later, he would say that the years she spent there blossomed his music and writing talent.
As an activist who constantly tries to draw attention to issues such as child abuse, human rights, racism and women’s rights, Sinead O’Connor took care not to remain silent on any issue. His spiritual journey, activism and socio-political views; she has also made trauma and mental health struggles part of her music career. His performance on Saturday Night Live in 1992, when he tore up a photo of the Pope to protest abuse in the Catholic Church, made a worldwide impact.
Her first studio album, “The Lion and the Cobra”, released in 1987, entered the charts all over the world. His biggest success was 1990’s “I Do Not Kant What I Haven’t Got”, which sold more than 7 million copies. Throughout her career, she made her music and voice heard in different areas through movie songs, charity concerts, and collaborations with different artists. She was nominated for a Grammy award 7 times and won the Best Alternative Music Performance category in 1991 with “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”.
“For years I couldn’t express how I felt.” says Sinéad O’Connor in an interview and adds: “I think music helps me in this way and that’s why it’s the most powerful tool. It expresses feelings that other people cannot express but need to be expressed. Whether they are aggressive or loving; “If you don’t express these feelings, one day they may blow you up.” Maybe that’s why it is possible to say that from the first years when she stepped into music, she made music like a bomb ready to explode and expressed herself through music, in order not to “blow up”.
Best Sinéad O’Connor songs
Nothing Compares 2 U
Album: “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”, 1990
After Sinéad O’Connor covered this song, for the first time in history, a song by Prince would be identified with another name. O’Connor is known to shed real tears in the video for “Nothing Compares 2 U,” one of the best songs ever written about heartbreak. This increases the emotion of the song even more.
All Apologies
Album: “Universal Mother”, 1994
While the whole world was shaken by Kurt Cobain’s death, names such as Patti Smith and Neil Young mourned her with their own songs lamenting her. The Nirvana song “All Apologies”, performed by Sinéad O’Connor in the same period, made the concept of mourning even sadder than it already was. The song becomes a mourning for Sinéad O’Connor when heard today.
Drink Before the War
Album: “Lion and the Cobra”, 1987
This song, which O’Connor wrote when she was 15 years old, about a man trying to destroy creativity, was actually written for the principal of her Catholic school. Although fans have never dropped the song as one of their favorites, Sinead O’Connor said that she no longer likes it because she likens listening to it to “reading your diary.”
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