Dolores O'Riordan

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Dolores O'Riordan (2010)

Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan [ dəˈlɔːɹəs oʊˈɹɪəɹdən ] (born September 6, 1971 in Ballybricken , County Limerick , † January 15, 2018 in London ) was an Irish singer and songwriter . She became known as the lead singer of the rock band The Cranberries .

Life

O'Riordan grew up as the youngest of seven siblings in her birthplace, where she also sang in the church choir. She later moved to nearby Limerick . In 1990 she became the front singer of the band The Cranberries , which at the time was still called Cranberry Saw Us , and became an important songwriter there. The singer, who claims to have suffered from an eating disorder , depressive episodes and the consequences of sexual abuse in her childhood , began psychotherapy after a nervous breakdown in 1994. That same year she married Don Burton, the former tour manager of Duran Duran . The couple moved to a farm in Kilmallock near Charleville in 1998 .

In September 2003, her mother-in-law became seriously ill, so Burton and O'Riordan moved to Howth , near Dublin . Under these circumstances, O'Riordan could not continue to work and the cranberries parted. Shortly afterwards, her mother-in-law died. In 2007 O'Riordan started a solo career. She also collaborated several times with other artists such as Zucchero , Luciano Pavarotti and Jam & Spoon . Your first solo album Are You Listening? was published in 2007. It sold 300,000 copies worldwide. In 2008 she was one of the ten winners of the European Border Breakers Awards (EBBA) who were honored for their successes abroad at the Midem in Cannes . From 2009 she worked again with the cranberries . At the time she had moved her center of life to Buckhorns (on Buckhorn Lake ) in Peterborough County , Canada , where she and Burton had owned a house since 1994.

In 2011, O'Riordan's father died. After a suicide attempt in 2013, the singer was found to be suffering from bipolar affective disorder . In September 2014, Burton and O'Riordan split. The three children together stayed with their father in Canada after the divorce, while O'Riordan moved to New York City , where she initially lived in hotels. In November 2014, she was temporarily arrested at Shannon Airport after injuring a stewardess on a transatlantic flight and later spat on and assaulted a police officer. In December 2015, she pleaded guilty in Ennis District Court ; her lawyer pointed out that she was in poor mental health at the time of the incident. Since 2015 she has been working with Andy Rourke and her new partner Olé Koretsky on the music project DARK, whose first album was released in 2016. The following year, the last album of the Cranberries appeared with O'Riordan as the singer.

O'Riordan's Catholic faith also influenced her musical work. In 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2013 she performed at the Christmas concert in the Vatican and in 2004 sang the theme song Ave Maria for the film The Passion of Christ .

On January 15, 2018, she drowned in a hotel bathtub in London at the age of 46 . She had been in the British capital for studio recordings. During the autopsy, alcohol poisoning of 3.3 per mille was found. In addition, prescribed drugs were found, which are said to have played no role in death. The responsible forensic doctor classified the event as an accident. O'Riordan was buried on January 23, 2018 in her birthplace Ballybricken.

Dolores O'Riordan (2012)
Dolores O'Riordan (2012)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Are you listening?
  DE 39 05/18/2007 (4 weeks)
  CH 10 05/27/2007 (8 weeks)
  UK 28 05/19/2007 (2 weeks)
  US 77 06/02/2007 (1 week)
No baggage
  DE 77 09/04/2009 (1 week)
  CH 25th 09/13/2009 (4 weeks)

Discography as a solo artist

Albums

  • 2007: Are You Listening?
  • 2009: No Baggage

Singles

  • 2007: Ordinary Day
  • 2007: When We Were Young, only as a promo single because the responsible record company, Sanctuary Records , went bankrupt shortly before it was released
  • 2009: The Journey
  • 2013: Senza Fiato feat. Negramaro

more publishments

Web links

Commons : Dolores O'Riordan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JC Wells : Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Harlow (England): Pearson Education Ltd. (2000), p. 232.
  2. ^ Pronunciation of Dolores O'Riordan in English . From forvo.com, accessed January 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ Johanna Bruckner: It remains a song that makes you cry . On January 15, 2018 from sueddeutsche.de, accessed on January 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Barry Egan: Dolores O'Riordan: The demons that linger in her life . On November 22, 2014 from belfasttelegraph.co.uk.Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Experience counts as Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan goes solo. (No longer available online.) Independent.co.uk, May 4, 2007, archived from the original on April 22, 2009 ; accessed on January 22, 2018 (English).
  6. ↑ Craig McLean: Back in the swing . April 21, 2007 from telegraph.co.uk, accessed January 22, 2018.
  7. ↑ Jane Stevenson: Ex-Cranberries singer planning to live here full-time ( Memento from January 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 22, 2018, from thepeterboroughexaminer.com on September 2, 2009.
    Cranberries reunion lures O'Riordan from Ontario cabin. (No longer available online.) Cbc.ca, August 28, 2009, archived from the original on September 3, 2009 ; accessed on January 22, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ Caroline Sullivan: Dolores O'Riordan obituary . On January 16, 2018, from theguardian.com, accessed on January 22, 2018.
  9. ^ Barry Egan: 'People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul, but an empty hole '- Barry Egan speaks to Dolores O'Riordan . November 16, 2014 from independent.ie, accessed January 22, 2018.
  10. ^ Gordon Deegan: Dolores O'Riordan pleads guilty to air rage offenses . From irishtimes.com on December 16, 2015 , accessed January 15, 2018.
  11. ↑ Michael Kelly: Irish bishop recalls Cranberries' musician for her faith, inspiration . January 17, 2018 from cruxnow.com, accessed January 22, 2018.
  12. ↑ Dolores O'Riordan died by drowning due to alcohol intoxication, inquest hears rte.ie, on September 6, 2018
  13. ^ Farewell to Cranberries singer O'Riordan , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, January 21, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2018.
  14. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
The cranberries
Michael Gerard Hogan • Noel Antony Hogan • Fergal Patrick Lawler • Dolores O'Riordan


Studio albums

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? • No Need to Argue • To the Faithful Departed • Bury the Hatchet • Wake Up and Smell the Coffee • Roses • Something Else • In the End

Singles

Zombie • Ode to My Family • Ridiculous Thoughts

personal data
SURNAME O'Riordan, Dolores
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Riordan, Dolores Mary Eileen (full name); Burton, Dolores (temporarily married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH County Limerick
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 2018
Place of death London