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On Wednesday, Sinéad O'Connor's household announced her decease "with large sadness".
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Minneapolis, US, 1988
The Irish singer-songwriter died astatine the property of 56. Here a enactment of images wage tribute to her unforgettable endowment and unsocial style.
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Image caption,Performing astatine the Metro successful Chicago, 1988
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor was calved connected 8 December 1966 successful the affluent Glenageary suburb of Dublin.
Her debut medium successful 1987, The Lion and the Cobra, was a storming success, earning O'Connor a Grammy information for champion pistillate stone vocal performance.
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Image caption,At Dublin's Olympic Ballroom, 1988
Her follow-up album, the Grammy-winning I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, featured her astir palmy single, a screen of the Prince opus Nothing Compares 2 U.
It was propelled to the apical of the charts successful the UK, Ireland and the US by a haunting video which chiefly featured a close-up of the singer's look arsenic she sang, and - memorably - cried.
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Image caption,O'Connor successful the iconic video for Nothing Compares To You
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Image caption,Glastonbury Festival, 1992
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Image caption,Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, their girl Frances Bean Cobain and Sinead O'Connor astatine the MTV Video Music Awards successful 1993
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Image caption,In performance successful 1997
In 1999, O'Connor was ordained a clergyman successful the Latin Tridentine Church, an autarkic Catholic church, not successful communion with Rome.
Despite her disdain for the Church hierarchy, O'Connor ever maintained she was a practising Christian and a devout Catholic.
Sinéad O'Connor's death
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Image caption,O'Connor successful Lourdes, France, being ordained arsenic a Priest by the Reverend Dr Michael Cox successful 1999
O'Connor was outspoken connected subjects ranging from religion to women's rights and racism, erstwhile tearing up a photograph of Pope John Paul II connected US TV.
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Image caption,O'Connor, with her girl Roisin, during an Anti-Racism objection successful Dublin metropolis centre, successful 2000
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Image caption,Promoting her medium Theology successful New York, successful 2007
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Image caption,On signifier astatine the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival successful Byron Bay, Australia, 2008
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Image caption,West Hollywood, California, 2012
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Image caption,O'Connor astatine location successful County Wicklow, Ireland, 2012
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Image caption,Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2014
O'Connor converted to Islam successful 2018, and changed her sanction to Shuhada' Sadaqat, but continued to execute nether her commencement name.
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Image caption,The Admiralspalast successful Berlin, Germany, 2019
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Image caption,The El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, US, 2020
In January 2022, O'Connor's 17-year-old lad Shane took his ain life.
A twelvemonth later, she received the Classic Irish Album grant for I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got astatine the RTÉ Choice Music Prize successful March 2023.
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Image caption,O'Connor receives her grant astatine the RTÉ Choice Music Prize successful Dublin, Ireland
Tributes person poured successful for the award-winning artist, with vocalist Annie Lennox describing O'Connor arsenic "fierce and fragile" with an "incredible voice".
"May the angels clasp you successful their tender arms and springiness you rest," she added.
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Image caption,Vredenburg successful Utrecht, Netherlands, 1988
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