When I was 17, O’Connor released “I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got.” The single “Nothing Compares 2 U” — and its video, the close-up of her tear-streaked face — made her a sensation.

A picture of late singer Sinead O'Connor, who died at the age of 56, is placed around floral tributes outside her former Irish home, in the seaside town of Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland, on July 27.

Sinead O’Connor’s former flatmate Nitin Sawhney has paid tribute to the singer after her death. “Devastated to hear of the passing of Sinead O’Connor,” the musician and producer wrote on Twitter on ...

Sinead O'Connor has died at the age of 56. The Irish singer-songwriter skyrocketed to fame in 1990 but never shied away from her political beliefs, famously tearing up a photo of the Pope on ...

Canadian songwriter Ron Sexsmith recalled opening for O'Connor, at a gig in Dublin, more than 25 years earlier. He remembered the kindness she showed her fellow musicians. "She was very nice to my ...

Music, O’Connor had said, was always a safe haven for her. “I suppose I’ve got to say that music saved me,” she said in an interview with the Independent in 2013.