Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor † (December 8, 1966 - July 26, 2023 [aged 56]), better known professionally as Sinéad O'Connor, was an Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. She was best known for her singles "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1990), off her 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. She created her YouTube channel on January 30, 2009.
==Personal life==
O'Connor was born on December 8, 1966, in Dublin, Ireland, to parents John Oliver "Sean" O'Connor and Johanna Marie O'Grady. Her mother Johanna passed away in 1985 after getting in a car accident. Her elder brother Joseph O'Connor is a novelist. She married her first husband music producer John Reynolds in 1989, who she had her first son Jake (born in 1987). They later divorced in 1991.
O'Connor revealed in a 2000 Curve interview that she was lesbianhttps://www.curvemag.com/blog/interviews/curves-20th-anniversary-retrospective-sinad-oconnor/, and later said in 2005 that she was "three-quarters heterosexual and a quarter gay."https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-59078220110831
On January 6, 2022, O'Connor's 17-year-old son Shane was reported missing. He was found the next day dead by suicide. She suffered mental health issues after she lost custody of her son in 2013, which she was admitted to a hospital for a week after his death.https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-hospital-intl-scli/index.html
==Death==
On July 26, 2023, O'Connor was found dead at the age of 56 in her Hernie Hill, South London apartment. An autospy report in 2024 later confirmed that the cause of her death was due to natural causes.https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0109/1425563-sinead-death/ Celebrities such as P!NK, Janelle Monaé, and Phoebe Bridgers paid tribute to her death.
==References==
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