Sinead O’Connor, the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer, has died at the age of 56, according to The Irish Times.
She released 10 studio albums during her record-setting career.
Her rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” was named the number one world single in 1990 at the Billboard Music Awards. The won a Grammy the following year for her album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.”
O’Conner changed her name in 2018 after she decided to convert to Islam.
The Irish songstress hitmaker in January 2022 lost her 17-year-old son, who she said, “decided to end his earthly struggle today and is now with God.”
As she continued to grieve the loss, O’Connor’s management team released a statement announcing she was cancelling all her scheduled gigs and will not be performing for the rest of the year.
In October 1992, when the singer shredded a pic of Pope John Paul II onstage while performing on “SNL.”
The stunt got the Grammy winner exiled from NBC for life and also booed offstage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert a few weeks later.
At the time, O’Connor said she had torn up the photo to protest sexual abuse of children by the Catholic Church. However, she recently revealed that the story goes much deeper.
“My intention had always been to destroy my mother’s photo of the pope,” she said. “It represented lies and liars and abuse. The type of people who kept these things were devils like my mother.”
O’Connor is survived by three children. Her son, Shane, died last year at 17.
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