![]() "They all thought I should be made a mockery of for throwing my career down the drain,” O'Connor said in “Nothing Compares,” a documentary about her life released last year. She was set to sing Dylan’s “I Believe in You,” but switched to an a cappella version of “War." Despite the backlash, she expressed no regrets about the controversial “SNL” moment, later calling it the “proudest” moment of her career. Weeks later, O'Connor was loudly booed at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. Joe Pesci, who hosted "SNL" a week later, held up a repaired photo of the Pope during his opening monologue, saying he would've given O'Connor "such a smack" had he been there. Religious groups burned her albums and radio stations pulled her songs. The singer endured enormous fallout from her 1992 “Saturday Night Live” appearance, in which she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II while singing Bob Marley's "War," in protest of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. It was accompanied by a now-iconic music video of O’Connor in tight closeup singing directly into the camera.īut her mainstream success was short-lived. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and was nominated for three Grammy Awards including record of the year. Her haunting performance of the power ballad spent four weeks at No. O’Connor released her debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra” in 1987, and three years later, shot to worldwide fame with her sophomore effort “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.” The album was bolstered by lead single “Nothing Compares 2 U,” an aching cover of Prince’s 1985 song. There’s no point living without him.” Shane was one of O’Connor’s four children. The singer posted a series of troubling messages to her Twitter account in the weeks following his death, writing, “I’ve decided to follow my son. The news comes more than a year after O’Connor’s 17-year-old son Shane died by suicide in January 2022. USA TODAY has reached out to O'Connor's representatives for comment. The vocalist’s cause of death has not yet been revealed. "Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time." “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad," O'Connor's family said in the statement. Sinéad O’Connor, the trailblazing Irish artist and “Nothing Compares 2 U” hitmaker, has died, according to a family statement obtained by the BBC.
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