Farewell to Sinead O'Connor, she was 56 years old

Farewell to Sinead O'Connor, the Irish singer has died at the age of 56.

Became famous for the cover of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U, after converting to the Muslim religion, she had chosen to be called Shuhada Davitt. He had been suffering from depression for years.

Born in Dublin in 1966, she had arrived in a disruptive way on the rock scene of the 80s: at 19 she made her debut with The Lion and the Cobra, an album that combined rock and electronics with a powerful and very original combination of melancholy and fury. Even America immediately noticed her and when, in 1990, she released Nothing Compares 2 U, a jewel of Prince that had remained hidden until then, and conquered the world charts, everything let us imagine that O'Connor would go very far . It had become an icon.

In 1992 the serenity of her career began to ripple: first the announcement that she would refuse to play in New Jersey if the American anthem was played, then one of the most controversial episodes of her tormented existence. Host of Saturday Night Live, he changed the verses of War, a song by Bob Marley, transforming it into an attack on the Catholic Church, accused of covering up the crimes of pedophilia.

Over the next few years canceled engagements, disappearances from public life, announcements of retirement, comebacks, a couple of good albums, the public admission of suffering from bipolar disorder. A sense of irrepressible malaise hovered over her events, together with the fear, for those who managed to stay close to her, of a definitive gesture.

What his 17-year-old son Shane did in January last year, after escaping from a hospital where he was hospitalized precisely because he had shown suicidal tendencies. In the desperation of that moment he announced in a tweet his intention to "follow my son". Then she apologized, declaring that she would take care of it.

(Unioneonline/D)