Rememberings: Sinéad O'Connor

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Rememberings, then, is a tremendous catalogue of female misbehaviour. Music memoirs tend to follow similar trajectories of ambition, success and depravity followed by regret and redemption. But O’Connor doesn’t do regret, and redemption isn’t required – at least not by her. She wanted to make a living as a performer but her idea of success wasn’t the same as other people’s. “I define success by whether I keep the contract I made with the Holy Spirit before I made one with the music business,” she explains. “I never signed anything that said I would be a good girl.” The writing is conversational and reveals O’Connor as self-deprecating, pragmatic and a sharp observer. She's funny, too In 1996, O'Connor provided guest vocals on Broken China, a solo album by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd. [84] She made her final feature film appearance in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy in 1997, playing the Virgin Mary. [85] In 1998, she worked again with the Red Hot Organization to co-produce and perform on Red Hot + Rhapsody. [86] 2000s O'Connor at the "Music in My Head" festival in The Hague, 2008 Born in south Dublin in 1966, O’Connor – whose debut Grammy-nominated album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in 1987 – catapulted to fame with a haunting cover version of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U, which sold millions of copies. The music video has been viewed on YouTube more than 400m times. Hanratty, Dave (8 September 2019). "Reaction to Sinéad O'Connor on Late Late shows we still have a long way to go on empathy and mental health". Joe.ie. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020 . Retrieved 13 September 2019.

O'Kane, Maggie (3 May 1993). " 'I fit in here,' Sinéad O'Connor says of her return to Dublin". The Guardian. McCabe, Allyson. Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters, University of Texas Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-4773-2570-4. Many considered that O’Connor was vindicated by subsequent revelations about Vatican cover-ups of sexual abuse scandals.O'Connor was nominated for four awards at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards and won for Best Alternative Music Performance. She refused to attend the ceremony or accept her award, and wrote an open letter to the Recording Academy criticising the industry for promoting materialistic values over artistic merit. [43] At the Brit Awards 1991, she won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist, but did not attend the ceremony. She accepted the Irish IRMA in February 1991. [62]

Browne, David (2 August 2023). "Phoebe Bridgers Remembers Sinéad O'Connor: 'It's Abuse to Be Told to Shut Up and Sing' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 10 August 2023. Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam". BBC News. 26 October 2018. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021 . Retrieved 26 October 2018. Morse, Steve (20 June 1997). "Sinead O'Connor shows gentle side". Tampa Bay Times . Retrieved 3 April 2022. Irish Times (29 July 2015). "The Secret Lives of Father Ted". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2015 . Retrieved 24 October 2023. O'Connor spent the following months studying bel canto singing with teacher Frank Merriman at the Parnell School of Music. In an interview with The Guardian, published in May 1993, she reported that the lessons were the only therapy she was receiving, describing Merriman as "the most amazing teacher in the universe". [63]

France, Lisa Respers (8 September 2017). "Sinead O'Connor sits down with 'Dr. Phil' ". CNN. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017 . Retrieved 16 September 2017. Humphreys, Joe (27 April 1999). "Ordination conducted by Tridentine bishop once of harbour police". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016 . Retrieved 3 August 2023. Wilkinson, Bard (26 October 2018). "Sinead O'Connor converts to Islam and changes name to Shuhada' ". CNN. Archived from the original on 7 July 2021 . Retrieved 1 June 2021. Along with music, motherhood and spirituality are the most important aspects of her life. Her ongoing, life-long spiritual quest (she may have waged war against the Catholic Church, but she’s an ordained priest in a breakaway sect, deeply interested in Rastafarianism, and has most recently converted to Islam…) is something I cannot relate to at all, which is probably why I didn’t enjoy the memoir quite enough to say “I liked it”. The book seems almost to be written for her own benefit rather than for a wider audience—it’s full of what are essentially short tributes to her collaborators, lovers, husbands, children, and their fathers, and it reads like an attempt to put misunderstandings aside.

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