Protecting Sinéad O’Connor’s Legacy: Music, Finances, and Posthumous Releases

2023-07-28 15:41:03

Sinéad O’Connor had already confided in an interview with the magazine People that she had warned her children well of what they should do if they ever found her dead.

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It was as part of a promotion for her memoir, “Rememberings” in 2021 that she confided in what should happen following her death.

In particular, she explained to her children the importance of protecting her music and her finances.

To that end, she even claimed she told them to call her accountant before they even called 911 if she was ever found dead.

“You see, when artists die, they are much more valuable than when they are alive,” she said in an interview.

“Tupac has released a lot more albums since his death than he ever did while alive, so it’s kind of gross what the record companies are doing.”

It is for this reason that she wanted to warn her little ones from an early age.

She told them, “If your mom dies tomorrow, before you call 911, call my accountant and make sure the record companies don’t start releasing my music without telling you where the money is.” , she detailed.

The Irish singer died this week following being found unconscious in a house in London. She was 56 years old.

No cause of death has yet been revealed, but London police have ruled out the criminal thesis.

Sinéad O’Connor was a mother of four children.

Besides her music, the singer was known for her fight once morest sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which she accused of not having sufficiently protected children. In 1992, she had torn on American television an image of Pope John Paul II.

The singer, who claimed to have been abused by her mother, also caused a scandal in 1999 when a dissident Irish church ordained her a “priestess”.

She then gradually disappeared from the front of the stage, however trying her hand at reggae in 2005 on her album Throw Down Your Arms following settling for a time in Jamaica.

In recent years, the singer has poured out her moods on social networks, threatening her former associates with legal action, pouring out her physical and mental health problems, sharing her suicidal thoughts and her complicated relationships with her family.

By 2022, his 17-year-old son Shane had taken his own life. Sinéad O’Connor was then hospitalized following having indicated on social networks that she was also thinking of suicide.

We saw her recently in a video published in early July on the social network Twitter, renamed X, where she spoke of her pain following the suicide of her son, and claimed to want to finish a new album.

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