DIED
Sinéad O’Connor
Protest singer
“I’m not a pop star,” Sinéad O’Connor, who died on July 26 at 56, wrote in her 2021 memoir. “I’m just a troubled soul who needs to scream into mikes now and then.” For many, the Irish musician was much more than that, including both a balm and a battery. Over her 10 studio albums released from 1987 to 2014, she lived as she sang, without compromise, electrified by the injustice and sadness she
