Sin?ad O'Connor Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Sin?ad: To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

Sin?ad: We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

Trivia

Sin?ad O'Connor was named after Sin?ad de Valera, the wife of Irish President Eamon de Valera, who was mother of the doctor delivering O'Connor.

In 1990, Sin?ad O'Connor joined with other musical guests, when former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters organized a grand-scale performance of "The Wall" in Berlin.

Sin?ad's brother, Joseph O'Connor is a notable novelist. Joseph's 1991 novel Cowboys and Indians was on the shortlist for the Whitbread Prize.

After the Saturday Night Live incident, Sin?ad O'Connor starred as Ophelia in a theatrical production of Hamlet.

Sin?ad is featured on Richard Wright of Pink Floyd's solo album, 1996's "Broken China". Sin?ad gives lead vocals for three songs.

Sin?ad has a close relationship with several members of fellow Irish band U2.