Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who was found dead at her London home on Wednesday, was finishing a new album, planning a tour and planning to bring her autobiography to the screen, her agents said on Friday. The causes of the death of the 56-year-old artist, who had in the past evoked suicidal thoughts, have not been the subject of any communication. An autopsy was ordered as part of the investigation.
“Sinead was finishing his last album, preparing dates for a new tour for 2024 and considering opportunities related to a film adapted from his book”, his autobiography Rememberings released in 2021, said his agents Kenneth and Carl Papenfus, on the site of their agency, 67 Management. “Wonderful project in progress,” they said, expressing their thoughts to the singer’s family and their undying gratitude to those who dedicated themselves to her and worked on these projects.
The disappearance of Sinead O’Connor, who became a world star in 1990 with the hit Nothing Compares 2 U, written by American artist Prince, sparked an avalanche of tributes. “No medical cause for death has been given,” the court said Thursday, while police said “the death is not considered suspicious.” By 2022, his 17-year-old son Shane had taken his own life. Sinead O’Connor was then hospitalized after indicating on social networks that she was also thinking of suicide.
She appeared in a video posted in early July on the social network Twitter, renamed “X”, where she spoke of her pain after the suicide of her son, and claimed to want to finish a new album. Besides her music, the singer was known for her fight against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which she accused of not having sufficiently protected children. In 1992, she ripped an image of Pope John Paul II from television in the United States.
