Sinéad O'Connor To Sing In Bucharest On Jun 11

Tickets cost 79 lei (EUR1 = RON4.2329), before April 17. Between April 17 and June 10, tickets will cost RON109, while on show day tickets will cost RON129. Tickets can be bought online at www.ticketpoint.ro, as well as at Sala Palatului or in Diverta stores countrywide.

 

Impetuousness, lack of tact, the shaved head, the aggressive attitude and the androgynous wardrobe are the notions with which Sinéad O'Connor started the revolt against pop culture, which had imposed equality between the notions of femininity and sexuality.

 

She was born in Ireland on December 8, 1966. Her parents were divorced when she was 8. Later, Sinéad said her mother, who died in a car crash in 1985, frequently abused her. After being expelled from Catholic School, the artist was arrested for shoplifting and was sent to a rehabilitation center. At the age of 15, she was discovered by Paul Byrne, drummer in Irish band In Tua Nua. After writing, in collaboration with the members of the band, the track "Take My Hand", Sinéad O'Connor left school to pursue her music career. She began singing in cafes and later went on to study canto and piano in the Dublin College of Music while she made money delivering telegrams.

 

In 1985, she signed a contract with Ensign Records and moved to London. The following year, she debuted on the soundtrack of "The Captive", together with U2 guitarist The Edge. She produced her first album, called "The Lion and the Cobra" – referring to "Psalm 91" in the Bible -, and the album soon became one of the best debut albums of 1987. The hit songs "Mandinka" and "Troy" received wide air time on alternative music radio stations. Ever since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O'Connor was controversial – in the interviews following the launch of her LP, she defended IRA actions, which brought her a wave of criticism. After attacking the members of U2, dubbing their music "bombastic", she managed to ruin many of her contacts in the music industry.

 

In 1990 she launched the album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got", inspired by the crumbling of her marriage with musician John Reynolds. Pushed to the top by the single "Nothing Compares 2 U", a cover of a Prince track, the album established her as a full-fledged star. However, the album was followed by another time of controversy – she once again fell in the crosshairs of tabloids because of her relationship with African American singer Hugh Harris. In addition, she gains a bad rep in the U.S. where she refused to appear on NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" and withdrew her name from the Grammies, even though she had been nominated in four categories. She launches "Am I Not Your Girl?", in 1992. When, finally, she appeared on "Saturday Night Live", Sinéad O'Connor ended her show by tearing up a photograph of Pope John Paul II, which brought her another wave of public outrage.

 

After two years of silence, while she joined Peter Gabriel’s tour, in 1994 she returns to the pop scene with the LP "Universal Mother", which was critically acclaimed. In 1997 came the album "Gospel Oak" while mid-2000 she launched "Faith and Courage", her first album in six years. Two year later came the album "Sean-Nós Nua", highly acclaimed for the return to Irish folk tradition.

 

In 2003 she released the double disk "She Who Dwells...", dubbed the artist’s “swan song”. Soon, however, came a series of collaborations, in 2005, after which she launched "Throw Down Your Arms", a collection of classic reggae songs that reached the fourth position on Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart. She returned to the studio next year to record "Theology", launched in 2007, inspired by the complexities of the global situation after the terrorist attacks on 9/11.