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Happy to use her fame for change,
Nothing compares…
ne of Ireland’s most distinctive voices of the last three decades, Sinéad O’Connor has passed.
ne of Ireland’s most distinctive voices of the last three decades, Sinéad O’Connor has passed.
Pic: Lindsey Best for the Washington Post
Found unresponsive at her London flat this morning at 11.18am, the singer was just 56.
More motivated by politics than by pop, O’Connor cut a controversial figure over the years, but such hits as Mandinka and Nothing Compares To U made her a global star.
Happy to use her fame for change, 
O’Connor was outspoken on many issues, speaking up for women’s rights and against the long legacy of abuse left by the Catholic Church. When she began her debut performance on America’s long-running Saturday Night Live back in October 1992 by tearing up a photograph of the Pope, it was a gesture that perfectly summed up the woman’s FU attitude. And the decades ahead.
O’Connor was outspoken on many issues, speaking up for women’s rights and against the long legacy of abuse left by the Catholic Church. When she began her debut performance on America’s long-running Saturday Night Live back in October 1992 by tearing up a photograph of the Pope, it was a gesture that perfectly summed up the woman’s FU attitude. And the decades ahead.Sinéad was a voice in the darkness, shouting against that darkness, but it was always there.
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Over the last 22 years, O’Connor released 10 studio albums, an RTÉ Choice Music Award for Classic Irish Album for her 1990 debut, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, earlier this year saw the singer face a standing ovation with a dedication “to each member of Ireland’s refuge community”.
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