Sinéad O'Connor
Magda Davitt (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor () on 8 December 1966)[1] is
an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album
The Lion and the Cobra. As Sinéad O'Connor, she achieved worldwide success in 1990
with a new arrangement of Prince's song "Nothing Compares 2 U".
Since then, while maintaining her singing career, she has occasionally encountered
controversy, partly due to her statements and gestures—such as her ordination as a priest despite
being a woman with a Roman Catholic background—and her strongly expressed views on
organised religion, women's rights, war, and child abuse. In addition to her ten solo albums,
her work includes many singles, songs for films, collaborations with many other artists,
and appearances at charity fundraising concerts.
In 2017, O'Connor said that she had changed her legal name to Magda Davitt.[2]
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Madonna's reaction
On Madonna's next appearance on SNL, after singing "Bad Girl", she held up a photo
of Joey Buttafuoco[47] and, saying "fight the real enemy", tore it up. Madonna also roundly
attacked O'Connor in the press for the incident, telling the Irish Times: "I think there is a better
way to present her ideas rather than ripping up
an image that means a lot to other people." She added, "If she is against the Roman Catholic Church
and she has a problem with them, I think she should talk about it."[48] The New York Times called it "professional jealousy" and wrote:
After Madonna had herself gowned, harnessed, strapped down and fully stripped to promote her album Erotica and her book Sex, O'Connor stole the spotlight with one photograph of a fully clothed man. But the other vilification that descended on O'Connor showed she had struck a nerve.
Bob Guccione, Jr. in a 1993 Spin editorial was adamant in his defence of O'Connor, writing:
Madonna savaged her in the press, obviously to fuel publicity for Sex and sales of her new album, Erotica … But when the Sinead controversy threatened to siphon some of the attention from the impending release of Sex, Madonna conveniently found religion again...[49]
In November 1991, a year prior to the incident, O'Connor had told Spin magazine:
Madonna is probably the hugest role model for women in America. There's a woman who people look up to as being a woman who campaigns for women's rights. A woman who in an abusive way towards me, said that I look like I had a run in with a lawnmower and that I was about as sexy as a Venetian blind. Now there's the woman that America looks up to as being a campaigner for women, slagging off another woman for not being sexy.
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| Sinéad O'Connor |
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| Background information |
| Birth name |
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor |
| Also known as |
Magda Davitt |
| Born |
8 December 1966 (age 51)
Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland |
| Genres |
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| Occupation(s) |
- Singer-songwriter
- musician
- priest
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| Instruments |
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| Years active |
1986–present |
| Labels |
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| Associated acts |
Ton Ton Macoute |
| Website |
SineadOConnor.com |
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