Singer Sinéad O’Connor has died, Irish media has reported. The Nothing Compares 2 U singer, who shot to fame in 1990 with her biggest hit, was aged 56.
The Irish Times has run the news of her passing on its website this evening . The singer, originally from Dublin, had a career which spanned 10 studio albums. Her song Nothing Compares 2 U, written by Prince, was named the number one world single in 1990 by the Billboard Music Awards.She has three surviving children, but her 17-year-old son Shane passed away last year. The last post on her social media was a picture of him and the tweet: "Been living as undead night creature since. He was the love of my life, the lamp of my soul."
At the age of 20, while recording her first album, The Lion and the Cobra, she became pregnant by her session drummer John Reynolds. They had a son, Jake, and married in 1987. Her first album was hailed "a sensation", reaching gold record status and earning O’Connor a Grammy nomination. Upon the release of her second album – 1990's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got – she had formed the identity with which we’ve come to associate her - in particular, her trademark shaved head.
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