BREAKING: Sinéad O'Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter best known for her cover of 'Nothing Compares 2 U', has died at 56. 9News MORE:
Sinéad O'Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s but was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music, has died at 56.
She was a lifelong non-conformist — she would say that she shaved her head in response to record executives pressuring her to be conventionally glamorous — but her political and cultural stances and troubled private life often overshadowed her music. She also feuded with Frank Sinatra over her refusal to allow the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at one of her shows and accused Prince of physically threatening her. In 1989 she declared her support for the Irish Republican Army, a statement she retracted a year later. Around the same time, she skipped the Grammy ceremony, saying it was too commercialised.
O'Connor performs during the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa", in Milan, Italy, in 2014. Much of her activism focused on the actions of the Catholic Church.
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