On July 26, we learned the sad news of the death of the singer Sinéad O’Connor at the age of 56. After months of speculation about the cause of her death, this Tuesday, January 9, the coroner informed Dailymail that the Irish artist died of natural causes.
”Mrs O’Connor died of natural causes. Therefore the case is closed,” the spokesperson for the Southwark Coroner’s Court communicated to the aforementioned media. Furthermore, a day after her death, British police confirmed that they were not treating the artist’s death from causes other than natural causes.
The singer was found dead in her south London residence on July 26, 2023, just a year and a half after her 17-year-old son, Shane, took his own life. The first information confirmed by different international media, such as Irish television or the DailyMail, claimed that the artist had died after years of battling mental health problems.
The singer of Nothing Compares 2U published days before her death on her social networks that she had moved to London after more than 23 years away from the English capital and that she was immersed in the production of her next studio album.
Sinéad O’Connor became popularly known in the 1990s. And her professional life took a 180-degree turn with her version of Prince’s legendary song Nothing Compares 2U, with which she topped the charts and earned several nominations at the Grammy Awards. After debuting in the world of music, the Irish woman went on to release ten albums, publishing the last one in 2014.
During her great golden age, the artist attracted attention thanks to her overwhelming personality and her radical and impressive image for those years. And the interpreter bragged about her high military-style boots and her shaved head. Furthermore, she was always very involved in political and military issues, showing on more than one occasion her support for the IRA paramilitary group and the Sinn Fein political party. All these characteristics of her made her a symbol of her during the 1990s.
