I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got was a distillation of O’Connor’s prayerful sense of music and her fury over social injustice. Her second studio album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, went double platinum in 1990, partly because of a hit love song written by Prince: “Nothing Compares 2 U.” O’Connor came to the attention of U2’s guitarist The Edge, and she got herself signed to the Ensign/Chrysalis label. But a nun gave her a guitar and she began to sing, on the streets of Dublin and then with a popular Irish band called In Tua Nua. O’Connor started making sounds in a home for juvenile delinquents, after a childhood spent getting booted out of Catholic schools and busted, repeatedly, for shoplifting. “So much of child abuse is about being voiceless, and it’s a wonderfully healing thing to just make sounds.” “I grew up in a severely abusive situation, my mother being the perpetrator,” O’Connor told NPR in 2014. And throughout her early life, Sinéad O’Connor was resilient. The album’s title, The Lion and the Cobra, refers to a verse from Psalm 91 about believers, and the power and resilience of their faith. It was her head, bald as an eaglet, and her wrists locked defensively across her heart. The cover to her first album, released in 1987, was so striking - not just because of her beautiful face. But even in a crowd that included Tracy Chapman, Laurie Anderson and the Indigo Girls, O’Connor stood out.
Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”Īlternative radio in the late 1980s rang with the voices of female singers who defied commercial expectations of what women should look like and how they should sound. The statement said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. The cause and date of her death were not made public. O’Connor’s recording of “Nothing Compares 2 U” was one of the biggest hits of the early 1990s. Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer known for her intense and beautiful voice, her political convictions and the personal tumult that overtook her later years, has died.
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