Sinéad O’Connor.Photo:Michel Linssen/Redferns
Michel Linssen/Redferns
Sinéad O’Connor’s daughter honored her late mother.
During a tribute concert on Wednesday for late Irish icons O’Connor andShane MacGowanat Carnegie Hall in New York City, Roisin Waters covered the musician/activist’s classic “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
Infan-captured footageof the performance, Waters, 28, can be seen walking barefoot in a colorful floral slip dress as she sings an impassioned rendition of O’Connor’s 1990 hit. Near the end of the set, the crowd unanimously cheers for her and concertgoers appear to give her a standing ovation.
Sinéad O’Connor performs on stage at Camp Bestival at Lulworth Castle on Aug. 3, 2014.Rob Ball/Redferns/Getty
Rob Ball/Redferns/Getty
The concert was filled with artists paying tribute to both late musicians. Bettye LaVette covered O’Connor’s “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, while Cat Power took on The Pogues' “The Body of an American.” Resistance Revival Chorus put their spin on O’Connor’s “Thank You for Hearing Me.” During the evening, Glen Hansard and Imelda May took on MacGowan and O’Connor’s duet “Haunted.”
MacGowan died in November 2023 at the age of 65, which his wife and longtime partner Victoria Mary Clarke confirmed in a touching Instagram post.
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Sinéad O’Connor performs at The Roundhouse in August 2014 in London.Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty
Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty
In her post, MacGowan’s widow remembered her late husband as someone “who will always be the light that I hold before me and the measure of my dreams and the love of my life and the most beautiful soul and beautiful angel and the sun and the moon and the start and end of everything that I hold dear”
Clarketold theNew York Timesthat the “Fairytale of New York” musiciandied of pneumonia.
Prior to his death, MacGowan had beenrecently hospitalized after being diagnosed with encephalitis,which is an uncommon and potentially life threatening condition that causes the brain to swell, since December 2022perSky News.
source: people.com
