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Sinéad O'Connor Spoke Out About Singers Being 'More Valuable' Dead Than Alive (and Labels 'Raping the Vault') Before She Died

Before Sinéad O'Connor's death in 2023, she was vocal about the exploitation of artists and their catalogs after their death. Over the weekend, U.K. newspaper The Sun reported that Irish probate ...
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Sinéad O'Connor was our freedom singer, our keener and our feminist killjoy

O'Connor's audacious 1987 debut The Lion and the Cobra rides on that uneasy tension between suffering and liberation. Always a figure representing difference, she appeared beguilingly on the cover ...
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Sinéad O'Connor Documentary Available to Stream for Free for 1 Week in Honor of the Year Anniversary of Her Death

"Everyone can watch it and honour Sinéad's extraordinary talent and her unwavering commitment to standing up for the oppressed," said director Kathryn Ferguson Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer ...
The New York Times

Sinead O’Connor, Prince and the Thrill of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’

O’Connor, who was found dead this week, was catapulted to fame when she covered the song written by Prince on her sophomore album. By Christopher Kuo Sinead O’Connor and Prince, passionate ...
The New York Times

O’Connor Was a Lonely Voice for Change, Until Ireland Changed With Her

Sinead O’Connor shocked her strongly Catholic country when she tore up the pope’s picture. But the Church’s sexual abuse scandals made Ireland more secular, and more understanding of her criticisms.