Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor, whose next album
No Veteran Dies Alone
is slated for 2022, said in a series of tweets to end her career on Friday (June 4th).
“This message to announce my retirement from touring and my work in the recording industry. I've aged and I'm tired, ”
said the 54-year-old artist, adding that it's not bad news.
“This is surprisingly beautiful news. A warrior knows when to retreat. It's been forty years of traveling. It's time to get up and make more dreams come true. ”
O'Connor's career, which began in 1984 while she was still a high school student, has seen some key moments, such as the close-up of her shaved head in the video for the title
Nothing Compares 2 U
, or the tearing of her head. 'a photo of Pope John Paul II after a performance on
Saturday Night Live
to denounce acts of pedophilia in the Catholic Church.
His first two albums,
The Lion and the Cobra
and
I Don't Want What I Haven't Got
, created the craze.
As early as 1987, the artist was a great success in Europe and the United States, to the point of making these records landmarks of the music scene of the late 1980s. The second, released in 1990, will be in the lead. sales in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Germany, quickly becoming a gold record.
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Her conversion to Islam in 2018 - during which she adopts the new name Shuhada Davitt - is the occasion for slippages, as when she declares on Twitter that she no longer wants to "
see whites from now on (if that's how we name non-Muslims). Never again, under any circumstances. They are disgusting ”
. Explaining a few days later on these remarks, O'Connor claimed in a video to have wanted to
"piss off the white supremacists"
and hoped that Twitter would delete his account, as the social network had done when the artist had declared not not like
"the nuns who murder babies in Ireland"
.