Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad O'Connor (2014)

Shuhada 'Sadaqat , known as Sinéad O'Connor ( ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnɚ ; * December 8, 1966 in Glenageary in what is now County Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown as Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor ) is an Irish musician and singer .

Life

Sinéad O'Connor was born near Dublin in 1966, the third of five children ; one brother is the writer Joseph O'Connor . As a child, she said she was regularly physically abused by her mother. When she was eight years old, her parents separated. In Catholic-Conservative Ireland at the time, divorce was not yet possible and in the event of separation, children were generally assigned to the mother. Her father became a dedicated campaigner for Irish divorce law. In 1979 Sinéad moved out with her mother Marie O'Connor to live with her father and his partner.

She was later expelled from school and jailed for shoplifting; she finally had to attend a boarding school run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity , who were involved in numerous scandals in Ireland that only became public after 1990 because of violence and child abuse (cf. e.g. scandal about the Dublin Magdalenenheim ). According to her, she was abused by clergy as a child. At the age of 16 she left boarding school to study singing and piano. Her musical role models included Aretha Franklin and The Smiths . She also worked as a waitress. Her first band was called Ton Ton Macoute (derived from the name of the former Haitian secret police Tonton Macoute ).

In 1983 she signed a contract with the music label Ensign Records in London , and in 1987 her first album The Lion and the Cobra was released . The single Mandinka made waves in the independent scene, the music video with a bald woman no less. At that time she married "her" drummer John Reynolds , from whom she divorced in the early 1990s after the legal reform. Her first child comes from the relationship with Reynolds.

The big breakthrough came Sinéad O'Connor in 1990 with their second album I Do Not Want What I Have not Got and the single cover version of Prince rhythm songs Nothing Compares 2 U . The song made it to number 1 on the charts in Germany . In the same year she declined to perform in New Jersey because the American national anthem should be sung before her performance. Frank Sinatra simply commented on her refusal: "I kick her ass!" O'Connor told journalists that she hoped she did not meet Sinatra; after all, she couldn't hit an old man. The organizers waived the national anthem that evening, but later refused to ever work with it again. In the same year she appeared in Roger Waters ' performance of The Wall on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. There she sang the song Mother .

In 1991 she turned down four Grammy Awards . With her controversial appearances and statements she continued to cause different reactions; for example, she sympathized with the PIRA and rejected the clerical Catholic Church. During an appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 1992 , she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on American television in front of running cameras . During this appearance she sang Bob Marley's song War , but replaced the word “racism” with “ child abuse ”. She protested against the denial of child abuse cases in the Catholic Church . At that time she withdrew from the music business for a short time because of social hostility and began to study opera singing in Dublin .

On October 16, 1992 Sinéad O'Connor performed at Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert (hosted by his record company, Columbia Records ) at Madison Square Garden , New York , and was booed about the incident on Saturday Night Live . She then deviated from the set list and instead of a song by Bob Dylan sang the title War angrily and unaccompanied , which also earned her little sympathy from the audience. She was then given a comforting hug by the event host, songwriter Kris Kristofferson . He dedicated the song Sister Sinéad to the singer on his CD Closer to the Bone (2009) .

In the 1992 novel adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( Stormy Passion ) , O'Connor took on a small role; she played the author Emily Brontë , who appears as a narrator.

In 1994 her album Universal Mother was released .

On March 10, 1996, O'Connor's second child was born. The father is the Irish journalist John Waters. The EP Gospel Oak with six tracks was released in 1997, with almost no public notice. In the same year she played in The Butcher Boy (German title: Butcher Boy - Der Schlächterbursche ) directed by Neil Jordan with Ian Hart and Fiona Shaw and opened the Mainz tent festival together with Nanette Scriba .

After studying theology for six weeks with Bishop Michael Cox, she was ordained priestess of the Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of Ireland in 1996 at a ceremony at the Grand Hotel de la Grotte in Lourdes (France). She took the religious name Mother Bernadette Mary . Your ordination is not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.

In 2000, when she made her comeback with the album Faith And Courage , she came out as gay ; however, she retracted this in later interviews in which she described herself as both bisexual and heterosexual. Most of her relationships were with men. Her album Sean-Nós Nua , released in 2002, contains traditional folk songs , including some in Irish .

In early 2003 she made a guest appearance on an album by Massive Attack . In the same year she announced her retirement from the music business in order to, according to her own statement, lead a normal life and become a religion teacher . In July 2003 a concert DVD was released with the programmatic title Goodnight, Thank You. You've been a lovely audience .

On March 10, 2004, O'Connor gave birth to their third child. At the time she was studying theology at the Milltown Institute in Dublin.

In February 2005, she announced that she would be returning to the music business. In March the CD Collaborations was released , on which there are no in-house productions, but pieces that she had recorded with other artists (including Peter Gabriel , U2 and Moby ) in the course of her career . In October 2005 she released the CD Throw Down Your Arms with roots reggae music, which she had produced with the two reggae greats Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare . The CD includes cover versions of songs by Peter Tosh , Burning Spear and Bob Marley .

On December 19, 2006, she gave birth to their fourth child, son Yeshua Francis Neil. Father is her partner at the time, Frank Bonadio. In June 2007 her CD Theology was released , which contains songs with spiritual content that refer to the Old Testament . In September she was with Ian Brown with the song Illegal Attacks in the UK charts.

In 2010 she recorded the duet It's Only Life with Elaine Paige for their album Elaine Paige and Friends . Tim Rice wrote the piece especially for this album.

On December 8, 2011, Sinéad O'Connor married Barry Herridge in Las Vegas . Their fourth marriage ended in divorce just 16 days later. On January 12, 2012, news of the singer attempted suicide spread .

In April 2012, a tour of Sinéad O'Connor was canceled due to the singer's mental health problems . In May 2014, their tenth studio album was announced for August of the same year. In November 2014 she took part in the Band Aid 30 project , which, on the initiative of Bob Geldof, raised money to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa .

In November 2015, O'Connor made suicidal thoughts public. At the end of the same month, she was found by a rescue team and taken to a clinic in Dublin for inpatient treatment.

At the end of 2017 she changed her name to Magda Davitt in order to “free herself from the curse of her parents”. In the TV show Dr. Phil told O'Connor that she would never use her maiden name again. Should she ever release music again, it will be under her new name. In August 2018 she released a preview version of her new song Milestones . At the end of October 2018, she announced that she had converted to Islam and that she had changed her name to Shuhada 'Davitt , which translates as martyrs , and that she “no longer wanted to have anything to do with whites” if that meant non-Muslims. This was attributed in the media to her psychological problems that had been manifest for years. A little later she changed her last name again to Sadaqat ( Urdu for truth ).

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
1987	The Lion and the Cobra	DE52 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH12 (6 weeks) CH	UK27 gold (20 weeks)UK	US36 gold (76 weeks)US	-	First published: November 4, 1987 Sales: + 750,000
1990	I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got	DE1 platinum (43 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (29 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (32 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (50 weeks)UK	US1 × 2 Double platinum (52 weeks)US	-	First published: March 12, 1990 Sales: + 3,850,000
1992	Am I Not Your Girl?	DE24 (12 weeks) DE	AT9 (8 weeks) AT	CH11 gold (10 weeks)CH	UK6th gold (6 weeks)UK	US27 (9 weeks) US	-	First published: September 22, 1992 Sales: + 225,000
1994	Universal mother	DE38 (9 weeks) DE	AT7th gold (11 weeks)AT	CH11 (11 weeks) CH	UK19th gold (9 weeks)UK	US36 (8 weeks) US	-	First published: September 13, 1994 Sales: + 175,000
2000	Faith and Courage	DE38 (8 weeks) DE	AT21 (10 weeks) AT	CH19 (10 weeks) CH	UK61 (2 weeks) UK	US55 (11 weeks) US	IE8 (18 weeks) IE	First published: June 13, 2000
2002	Sean-Nós Nua	DE75 (6 weeks) DE	AT29 (5 weeks) AT	CH67 (5 weeks) CH	UK52 (2 weeks) UK	US139 (2 weeks) US	IE3 (20 weeks) IE	First published: October 8, 2002
2005	Throw down your arms	-	-	-	-	-	IE17th gold (8 weeks)IE	First published: October 4th, 2005 Sales: + 7,500
2007	Theology	DE86 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	US168 (1 week) US	IE18 (7 weeks) IE	First published: June 18, 2007
2012	How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?	DE78 (1 week) DE	AT42 (2 weeks) AT	CH69 (1 week) CH	UK33 (2 weeks) UK	US115 (1 week) US	IE5 (13 weeks) IE	First published: February 21, 2012
2014	I'm not bossy, I'm the boss	DE39 (1 week) DE	AT44 (1 week) AT	CH48 (1 week) CH	UK22 (2 weeks) UK	US83 (1 week) US	IE1 (21 weeks) IE	First published: August 7, 2014

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Web links

Commons : Sinéad O'Connor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website about Sinéad O'Connor by Roman Szendrey
• Sinéad O'Connor at laut.de.
• Literature by and about Sinéad O'Connor in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sinéad O'Connor in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Missing pop star: Sinead O'Connor is back , Spiegel Online , May 16, 2016, accessed on May 17, 2016
2. ^ O'Connor becomes a 'priest'. BBC News, May 4, 1999, accessed May 17, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Sinéad O'Connor: Fourth marriage lasted only 16 days. In: The Standard . December 27, 2011, accessed December 27, 2011 .  
4. ↑ Jennifer O'Brien: Sinéad's Twitter SOS after taking overdose. In: The Sun . January 12, 2012, accessed January 12, 2012 .  
5. ↑ Mentally battered: Sinéad O'Connor cancels concert in Zurich . In: Aargauer Zeitung, April 22, 2012
6. ↑ Sinéad O'Connor: new at Nettwerk, album in August, with videos ( memento of the original from May 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Online article, musikmarkt.de, May 12, 2014 
7. ↑ I need a job, I need an apartment, I need help . In: Die Welt, November 30, 2015
8. ↑ Sinead O'Connor fights for her son . In: Stern, December 15, 2015
9. ↑ Sinéad O'Connor changes her name to Magda Davitt to be 'free of parental curses'. Accessed March 26, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Sinéad O'Connor releases first new song in four years and changes her name. In: IrishCentral , August 3, 2018.
11. ↑ Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam , BBC , Oct. 26, 2018
12. ^ "Nothing Compares 2 U": Sinead O'Connor converts to Islam . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 26, 2018]).
13. ↑ Sinead O'Connor doesn't want anything to do with whites anymore. I beg your pardon? In: stern.de . November 7, 2018 ( stern.de [accessed November 12, 2018]).
14. ↑ https://www.irishpost.com/news/sinead-oconnor-reveals-new-last-name-just-weeks-converting-islam-162067
15. ↑ https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272146/shuhada-sadaqat-sinead-oconnor-finds-white-people-hugh-fitzgerald
16. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US IE1 IE2