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Highlights from the career of Sinéad O’Connor

The Irish singer-songwriter became a superstar in her mid-20s but was known as much for her private struggles as for her music.

By Associated Press, Invision, Keystone and MTI

July 26, 2023

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Irish singer Sinead O'Connor appears at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, 1989.
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Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor displays two of her three awards she won at the 7th annual MTV Video Music Awards in Universal City, Ca., Thursday evening, Sept. 6, 1990. O'Connor won for her single "Nothing Compares 2 U" in the video of the year, female video and post modern video categories.
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Kris Kristofferson comforts Sinead O'Connor after she was booed off stage during the Bob Dylan anniversary concert at New York Madison Square Garden, on Oct. 17, 1992.
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Sinead O'Connor performs at the Lilith Fair, an all-female show attended by thousands Saturday, June 28, 1998, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
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Singer Sinead O'Connor poses for a photo in New York, June 5, 2000.
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Irish singer Sinead O' Connor, left, and Rita Marley, widow of reggae superstar Bob Marley, smile as they chat with Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson Saturday Aug. 6, 2005, at the Prime Minister Independence Gala to celebrate Jamaica 's 43rd year of Independence and to pay a special tribute to the 60th anniversary of the birth of Bob Marley, in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs at the Prime Minister Independence Gala in Kingston, Jamaica on Aug. 6, 2005.
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Irish pop singer Sinead O'Connor stands by the backdrop of her album cover during the launching of her album "Throw Down Your Arms," scheduled to be released in September, Monday, Aug. 8, 2005, in Kingston, Jamaica. She recorded the album in Kingston earlier this year with several top Jamaican musicians, including drummer Sly Dunbar, bassist Robbie Shakespeare, guitarist Mikey Chung and trombonist Nambo Robinson.
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Ireland's Sinead O'Connor appears at New York's Sirius Satellite Radio studios in New York to perform songs from her new "Theology" double CD Monday June 25, 2007.
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In this Oct. 27, 2011, file photo, Irish musician Sinead O'Connor arrives at amfAR's Inspiration Gala in Los Angeles.
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Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor in concert on the first night of the Toender Folk Music Festival in Toender, on the south western part of Denmark on Aug. 23, 2013.
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Sinéad O'Connor performs at Camp Bestival at Lulworth Castle on Sunday, August 3, 2014, in Dorset, England.
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Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs during the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa", in Milan, Italy on Oct. 5, 2014.
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Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs on the Stravinski Hall stage at the 49th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland on July 4, 2015.
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Irish singer Sinead O'Connor performs at Akvarium Klub in Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 9, 2019.

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