Sinead O’Connor died from natural causes, a coroner in London has determined.
A statement said that the coroner has “ceased their involvement” in O’Connor’s death and no other comments would be made. Police offered a few details at the time, saying the singer was found “unresponsive” at her home in London and “pronounced dead at the scene.” Authorities said her death was not being treated as suspicious.
A special tribute concert to Sinéad O'Connor and The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan will be held at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on 20 March.
Titled Sinéad & Shane, the one-night-only event will celebrate the lives and work of the Irish artists, who both died last year.
Irish singer Glen Hansard, David Gray, Dropkick Murphys, Cat Power and Amanda Palmer are among the musicians taking part, with more to be announced.
“Shane would really appreciate this tribute,” MacGowan’s widow, author and journalist Victoria Mary Clarke, told The Independent.
“He loved Carnegie Hall and he loved Sinead. It’s heartbreaking to think about them both being gone but good to think of them being together and representing the more authentic and soulful side of Irish music.
The Irish singer, who rose to global fame in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”, died in July aged 56.
O’Connor’s music was streamed 243,000 times from July 24-25, before that number rose to 7.3million from July 26-27 in the wake of her death.
Her cover of Prince‘s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ alone amassed 3.2million streams in the week news of her death broke. The single was also downloaded 10,000 times.
This is what Sinéad O’Connor told her kids to do if she died suddenly.
“I’ve always instructed my children since they were very small, ‘If your mother drops dead tomorrow before you called 911, call my accountant and make sure the record companies don’t start releasing my records and not telling you where the money is,'” O’Connor told People magazine in a 2021 interview.
The “Heroine” educated her children on the importance of protecting her music and assets, their inheritance, so they could avoid being taken advantage of.
“When the artists are dead, they’re much more valuable than when they’re alive,” O’Connor said of musicians’ profitability.
“Tupac has released way more albums since he died than he ever did alive, so it’s kind of gross what record companies do.”
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