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Sinead O'Connor

Sinead O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland on December 8th 1967. She left the family fold at a very early age after being divorced by her parents and sent to a Dominican nun-run centre for girls with behavioural problems. But by 1985, after attending the Dublin College Of Music she joined local band Ton Ton Macoute, where she met boyfriend and future manager Fachtna O'Ceallaigh. A year later he arranged for O'Connor to guest on U2's The Edge's soundtrack album Captive and was discovered by Nigel Grainge and Chris Hill of Ensign Records. Her first album "The Lion and the Cobra" was released in 1987 on Ensign Records.She spent the next year touring extensively throughout Europe and the USA. A long-form video entitled The Value of Ignorance was released in 1989. Directed by John Maybury, it was filmed at Sinead's June 1988 concert at the Dominion Theatre in London. Sinead returned to London to record her second album in 1989. The first single from the album was a cover of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U." Released in January 1990, it went to #1 in 17 countries, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, which Sinead also produced, followed in March and entered the UK album charts at #1. She embarked on a worldwide tour and ended the year by winning three MTV Music Awards -- including Best Single and Best Female Singer. At the same time, her album was featured widely in critics' album of the year polls. 1990 also saw Sinead contribute to the Red Hot and Blue AIDS benefit album and play a concert in Chile for Amnesty International. In addition, her acting debut in the film Hush-A-Bye-Baby (directed by Margot Harkin of the Derry Film and Video Coop., Ireland) was premiered at the Dublin Film Festival and screened on Channel 4 that year. In 1991 O'Connor made history as the first person to ever refuse her Grammy Award for alternative 1990 album. She protested about anti-legalising Irish abortion on TV and was booed off-stage at a Bob Dylan concert at Madison Square Gardens, and due to the crowd noise that interrupted her performance she gave full vent to the Bob Marley song War. her declaration of forthcoming retirement soon followed. Sinead spent the first few months of 1991 living in Los Angles but returned to London in April, prior to releasing the single "My Special Child" in aid of the Kurdish Refugee Appeal and playing a concert for the same cause at the Hague. A second full-length live concert video was released in May entitled The Year of the Horse. Sinead spent the autumn filming, playing the role of Emily Bront?, the narrator in the movie Wuthering Heights. Sinead's third album, Am I Not Your Girl, was recorded in New York in 1992 with a 47-piece orchestra. The album featured cover versions of classic songs and was produced by Sinead and Phil Ramone. Two singles were released, "Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home" and "Don't Cry For Me Argentina." In December of that year Sinead also recorded the track "Be Still" for the Peace Together project in Dublin. In 1993 Sinead moved back to Dublin and enrolled for singing lessons at the Parnell School of Music. Later that year she made her first venture into film soundtracks, recording "You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart" as the closing music for In The Name Of The Father, the movie about the Guildford Four. The track was also released as a single. She followed this up by recording the opening music for "Oh Mary This London," a new film for BBC Screen Two. 1994 saw Sinead record and release her fourth album, Universal Mother, which she produced along with John Reynolds, Tim Simenon, and Phil Coulter. The album featured ten new songs and two covers. "It's a tough thing to grow up in public," she concedes. "It's tough to grow up anywhere, even in private. It's tough but I wouldn't carry on about it because at the same time I kind of made my own bed for want of a better phrase. I wouldn't have any gripes about it because I created my own life ...".

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