Shuhada Davitt

The popular Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has captured the attention of millions of listeners with her strong vocals and unusual manner of performance. However, there are many scandals around her name, which further fuels the interest of fans to learn as much as possible about this woman.

The future singer was born in December 1966 in a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Sinead's childhood cannot be called happy, when the girl was 8 years old, her mother and father divorced. At the request of her mother, she entered a Catholic school, but since she did not show enthusiasm for studying, she was soon expelled. Then an even greater test awaited her. Once in the store she committed theft, O'Connor was caught and sent to the Magdalene Orphanage. This is a monastic-type educational and correctional institution.

Singing became a real outlet for Sinead. Thus, she tried to distract herself from the troubles and hardships of life, plunged headlong into creativity. For the first time, relatives and friends heard the girl's vocals at a relatives' wedding, where she sang the song "Evergreen" by Barbara Streisand.

When O'Connor was 15 years old, her talent was noticed by Paul Byrne. At that time, the man was a drummer, performing in the In Tua Nua group. The collective takes care of an aspiring artist, appoints her as a lead vocalist, and in the future the girl shows her talent in another direction, becoming a co-author of the first single called "Take My Hand".

Since studying at school and performing, Sinead could not combine, opting for a musical career, the girl leaves school without having received primary education. And when she turns 18, O'Connor's mother dies in a car accident. Later in an interview, the woman admits that they did not have a warm relationship between mother and daughter.

Numerous performances in Dublin cafes, as well as studies at the College of Music, help Sinead improve his keyboard playing skills, as well as his vocal technique.

Waiting for her 18th birthday, the aspiring singer went to London and entered into an agreement with Ensign Records, and a year later she made her debut. Sinead's first recorded song sounds like the soundtrack to the movie "The Prisoner". However, the label refuses the girl to publish the first album, so she tries to release it on her own.

And in 1987, listeners receive the first album, which O'Connor completely re-recorded. It is called "The Lion and the Cobra" and brings together a rich variety of musical genres, from traditional folk to impulsive punk rock.

Putting a high stake on the first songs, the artist was right. Soon after the release of the tracks, critics and listeners praised the album, and a year later it is at 36th place on the Billboard 200 chart. Several songs were played non-stop by all local radio stations, and the track "Mandinka" was even included in the top 20 dance songs in the USA.

The second album of the singer was released in 1990, even then O'Connor acquired the status of a cult figure, at home she was considered a superstar and predicted a great future. The disc titled "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" did not disappoint the expectations of fans and in the nomination "Best Alternative Album" Sinead received the Grammy Music Award for it.

The most popular song on this disc was a track called "Nothing Compares 2 U". Paradoxically, this hit was first performed in 1985 by the musical group The Family, and was written by the American musician Prince Rogers Nelson. It was someone else's song performed by a talented artist that became a real hit and for a long time did not leave the leading positions of the American charts and hit parades.

In the video for this song, Sinead's face is shot in close-up, throughout the video, the girl depicts different emotions. There are also other clips of the girl on the Internet, for example, for the songs "The Foggy Dew", "Tears from the moon", "Jealous", "No Man's Woman", etc.

Each subsequent disc, which came out after the second, no longer brought Sinead's former success. Released in 1992, the album "Am I Not Your Girl?" met with low-key reviews from critics. For a while, the girl leaves the big show business, returns to her hometown and for some period studies theatrical and operatic arts.

However, after 2 years the singer returns with the 4th album "Universal Mother". Despite the laudatory comments, he no longer occupies a high position in the Billboard chart, and a year later O'Connor even declares that he will forever refuse to communicate with the media.

After the release of the 5th album "Gospel Oak EP", in 1997, a woman plunges headlong into religion and it was then that she first changed her name and became Magda Davitt. However, after 3 years, having signed a contract with Atlantic Records, Sinead released the album "Faith and Courage", and in 2002 - "Sean-Nos Nua".

A year later, the woman surprised everyone by announcing her retirement from the music business. She said that she plans to devote time to church and teaching religion, and to satisfy her craving for singing, she will perform in a church choir. However, the woman did not succeed in completely putting an end to music, since in the period from 2003 to 2012, 5 more albums with songs of Sinead were released.

O'Connor's personal life is full of novels. The woman had 4 marriages, four children were born - a daughter and three sons, today they are already adults.

With her first husband, drummer John Reynolds, the girl married in 1987 and gave birth to a son, Jake. The couple divorced in 1990. After that, Sinead began an affair with backing vocalist Hugh Harris, then with Irish journalist John Waters, in 1995 Sinead gave birth to a daughter from him. But this relationship did not work out, after parting, the former couple fought for custody of the girl. The story ended with the woman's consent to the residence of her daughter with Waters in Dublin.

In 2001, O'Connor remarried. This time British journalist Nick Sommerled became her chosen one. The marriage lasted 3 years, and the woman's next romance led to the birth of her third child, the son of Shane, whose father was the musician Donal Lunni. The father of the last child, born in 2006, was Frank Bonadio.

The singer's third marriage was concluded in the summer of 2010, and the couple divorced in the spring of 2011. With her last husband, whom O'Connor married in Las Vegas in December 2011, the woman divorced on the 16th day of marriage.

As she explained, the reason for the separation from Barry Herridge was the negative attitude of family members and friends of the spouse towards their marriage. Moreover, Sinead assures that they parted as friends, and even asked the press not to interfere with the private life of her ex-husband.

Despite the abundance of romance with men, in an interview in 2000, the woman stated that she was in fact a lesbian. However, soon, in another interview, Sinead said that her statement was too rash, in her life she had relationships with both men and women.

There are many other scandalous stories in the biography of O'Connor, which she arranged publicly, thereby causing a negative reaction from fans. For example, she publicly refused to perform at a concert if she heard the US anthem before the start, thereby angering Frank Sinatra. And during the nomination of the singer's album for the Grammy award, the woman demanded that her name be deleted from the list.

O'Connor's image also raises a lot of questions from fans. The woman began to shave her head in her youth and to this day adheres to the image created then. Attempts to grow her hair have led nowhere, as Sinead herself claims, with long hair she feels uncomfortable.

In October 2018, O'Connor announced her change of religion. The woman converted to Islam and changed her name along with her religion. Now her name is Shuhada Davitt. Since then, she has been posting photos in a hijab on social networks and declares that she is now happy.

For a long time, Sinead struggled with prolonged depression, and in 2017 she even posted a video on Facebook, where she told her subscribers that she was suffering from a mental disorder. Indeed, in recent years, information has periodically appeared in the press that a woman is in an unstable emotional state.

The religious views of the Irish have changed a long time ago. Almost the entire population of her home country is Catholic. In 1999, Sinead was enrolled in the ranks of the priests of one reformist direction of Catholicism. However, over time, she became disillusioned with this faith and began to sharply criticize Catholics. This was the result of scandals related to the spread of pedophilia among Catholic priests.

The change of religion, apparently, really benefited O'Connor, already in August 2018 the singer recorded the single "Milestones" for the first time in 4 years, and now she is working on the creation of a new album, which will be called "No Mud No Lotus". Presumably, its release is scheduled for October 2019.

1987 - The Lion and the Cobra 1990 - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 1992 - Am I Not Your Girl? 1994 - Universal Mother 1997 - Gospel Oak EP 1997 - So Far ... the Best of Sinéad O'Connor 2000 - Faith and Courage 2002 - Sean-Nos Nua 2003 - She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty 2005 - Collaborations 2005 - Throw Down Your Arms 2007 - Theology 2012 - How about I Be Me (And You Be You)?

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