Sinead O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland on December 8th 1966. Her parents divorced when she was 8. At the age of 15 she was "discovered" singing "Evergreen" at a wedding. She attended the Dublin College Of Music studying voice and piano until 1985. Her first album "The Lion and the Cobra" was released in 1987 on Ensign Records.

"Sinead O'Connor ranked among the most distinctive and controversial pop music stars of the 1990s, the first and in many ways the most influential of the numerous female performers whose music dominated airwaves throughout the decade. Brash and outspoken, with her shaven head, angry visage and shapeless wardrobe a direct challenge to the popular culture's long-prevailing notions of femininity and sexuality, O'Connor irrevocably altered the image of women in rock; railing against long-standing stereotypes simply by asserting herself not as a sex object but as a serious artist, she kick-started a revolt which led the way for performers ranging from Liz Phair to Courtney Love to Alanis Morissette."
-All Music.com

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