The death of singer Sinead O’Connor was announced Wednesday by her family. “Police were called at 11:18 a.m. (local time, 10:18 GMT) on Wednesday July 26 after an unconscious woman was reported to a residential address in the SE24 neighborhood,” the capital’s southern postcode, said London police in a statement sent to AFP. “A 56-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene […] The death is not considered suspicious,” she added.
Sinead O’Connor rose to worldwide fame in 1990 with the song “Nothing Compares 2U”, written by American artist Prince. His first two albums, The Lion and the Cobra and I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, were major commercial successes. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead,” her family said Wednesday evening in a statement released by Irish public broadcaster RTE. “His family and friends are devastated. »
In addition to her music, the singer was known for her fight against sexual abuse in the Church and her taste for scandal. In recent years, the singer has poured out her moods on social media, threatening her former associates with legal action, pouring out her physical and mental health problems, sharing her suicidal thoughts and indulging in her complicated relationship with her family and their children.
By 2022, his 17-year-old son Shane had taken his own life. Sinead O’Connor was then hospitalized after indicating on social networks that she was also thinking of suicide. We saw her recently in a video posted in early July on an account of the social network Twitter, renamed X, where she said she wanted to prove that she was indeed the holder of this account and spoke of her pain after the suicide of her son. She also said that she had moved to London, and after 23 years of absence, claimed to want to finish a new album.
