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SINEAD O'CONNOR
(A Biography)
SINEAD O'CONNOR is twenty-seven years old and was born in Dublin, Eire on
December 8, 1966. She moved to London in 1985, after signing to Ensign
Records, where she both wrote and produced her first album, The Lion and
the Cobra, which was released to great critical acclaim in 1987. Sinead
followed this album with extensive tours of the UK, USA and Europe in 1988.
Sinead recorded her second album in London during 1989. I Do Not Want
What I Haven't Got was released in the UK in March 1990, and went straight
into the UK album chart at Number 1. It received great critical acclaim
and was featured in practically all the "Albums of the Year" lists. Sinead
produced the album herself, as she did with The Lion and the Cobra.
The first single from the album, released on January 8, 1990, was "Nothing
Compares 2 U," and is a cover of a song written by Prince. Sinead first
heard the song about three years previously on an album by the Minneapolis
group The Family. The single went on to be Number 1 in the UK, Ireland,
The States, Germany, Holland, Italy . . . seventeen countries in all. In
September 1990, Sinead was awarded three MTV Music Awards in the USA --
including Best Video of the Year.
She started a world tour in March 1990 and toured extensively throughout
the UK, Europe and USA. Highlights included appearances at the Glastonbury
Festival, three nights at Hammersmith, a sell-out show at the Royal Albert
Hall, and a very successful tour of America.
The long-form video, "The Value Of Ignorance," was released in 1989, was
directed by John Maybury, and filmed at Sinead's June 1988 concert at the
Dominion Theatre in London. A second live video, "The Year Of The Horse,"
was released in 1991.
Sinead O'Connor began a world tour on April 14, 1990, playing throughout
America and Europe. At the 1990 MTV Music Awards in Los Angeles, Sinead
won both best single and best female singer awards. Also in 1990, she
contributed to the Red Hot & Blue Aids benefit album. Sinead also played
an Amnesty International Concert in Chile.
In May 1991, she released a new single, "My Special Child" -- all the
proceeds were donated to the Kurdish Refugee Appeal; Sinead also played
live on May 12 at the Hague for the Kurdish Refugee Concert.
Sinead spent April and May of 1992 in New York at the National Edison
Studios with an orchestra of forty-seven musicians, recording her third
album, Am I Not Your Girl?. The album was produced by Sinead and Phil
Ramone, and was all cover versions of classic songs that Sinead wanted to
sing. The first single, "Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home" was
released on September 1, 1992; the album followed on September 14. On
September 19, a BBC-2 special about the making of the album was shown in
the UK.
On November 29, 1992, Sinead appeared at The Royal Festival Hall in the
Amnesty International Concert For Human Rights. November 30th saw "Don't
Cry For Me Argentina" released as the last single from the album Am I Not
Your Girl?. In December, Sinead went to Dublin to record "Be Still" for
the "Peace Together" project.
1993: In March, Sinead sang "Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace,"
unaccompanied at the Dublin Peace Rally. She took up residence in Dublin
and enrolled for singing and piano lessons at the Parnell School of Music.
In the summer, Sinead made guest appearances on the WOMAD and Peter Gabriel
world tours. In November, Sinead returned to Dublin to record "You Made Me
The Thief Of Your Heart" which is the closing music for the film about
Gerry Conlon, "In The Name Of The Father." This song was released on
February 7, 1994 as a single.
Sinead had continued to write and compose her own songs and in March 1994,
Sinead went into Westland studios in Dublin and began recording her fourth
album, Universal Mother, which was released in the UK in September, 1994.
Sinead produced Universal Mother with John Reynolds (drummer with Jah
Wobble -- please note he was never a member of Transvision Vamp!), Phil
Coulter and Tim Simenon. The album has ten new songs written by Sinead and
two covers.