Sinéad O'Connor Sinead O'Connor / 西尼德·奥康娜
- 风格
- #凯尔特摇滚 #学院摇滚 #当代唱作人
- 地区
- Ireland 爱尔兰
艺人介绍
小档案
中 文 名 希妮德·奥康娜
外 文 名 Sinéad O'Connor
国 籍 爱尔兰
出生日期 1966年12月8日
职 业 歌手和歌曲作者
代表作品 《狮子与眼镜蛇》
艺人资料
希妮德·奥康娜又译西尼德·奥康纳，1966年12月8日出生，爱尔兰流行歌手和歌曲作者。
14岁便开始创作歌曲，1987年她出版了专辑《狮子与眼镜蛇》，此后她又出了一张《不图奢望》，这张专辑获得了音乐界的很高评价，单曲《Nothing Compares 2U》在欧洲各国都拿下了排行榜冠军并使她赢得了格莱美奖。
个人经历
奥康娜从小就在一个破碎的家庭长大，经常遭受几乎变态的母亲的虐待。8岁时父母离异，她因无人管教，至超市行窃时被当场捕送到少年管教所，她极端反抗权利体制的性格也在那时开始孕育。离开少管所后便进入都柏林音乐学院学习声乐及钢琴。 15岁时，她的演唱天赋被发掘出来，由此成为了咖啡店清丽的女歌手，由此步入了音乐生涯。18岁时，疯狂的母亲死于车祸。音乐永远都是清泉，它滋润了奥康娜一度迷失的心灵。令人出乎意料的是，奥康娜在阴影中逐渐散发出了常人难以企及的光辉。10年后，奥康娜居然创作出了一张关于母爱温情的唱片–《博爱的母亲》。很难猜想这究竟是对她自己的安慰还是讽刺。
人物争议
特立独行
希妮德·奥康娜 （Sinead O’connor）–一位宁为玉碎，不为瓦全的爱尔兰女歌手。这种刚烈的个性在她初入唱片界时就显露锋芒。奥康娜长得清秀可人，唱片公司的老板本欲把她包装成清纯玉女，但她极为反感这种矫柔造作的造型，一怒之下便剃了个光头示威。没想到，此举反而使她声名扶摇直上。其后，她更是惊世骇俗：如在美国著名节目"星期六之夜"的现场撕碎了教皇保罗二世的照片、海湾战争期间拒绝在个人演唱会前让人演奏美国国歌、拒绝接受获得了四项荣誉提名的格莱美音乐奖……同时她也是一个出言不逊的女子，毫无顾忌地与众多媒体交恶。平时，她说她确实是一名天主教牧师，又大胆承认自己实际上是一名同性恋者。她是那样的狂野、神秘，充满了奇异的魅力。如今，她居然在自己的官方网站给广大乐迷写下了这么一封公开信：我再也不想做一个名人，我只是向往普通人的生活。我希望大家都尊重我的隐私……无疑，这封信证实了之前关于奥康娜的种种传闻。
直言不讳
奥康娜的直言不讳,几乎和她的音乐齐名。
1988年,她说——“我支持爱尔兰共和军以及新芬党。我讨厌暴力,但我能体谅它。因为暴力是必需的,否则一切只会变得更糟。”
1990年,她说——“我有一个原则就是不要在我开演唱会前就大唱赞歌,这点在任何国家都通用,当然其中也包括我自己的国家,因为这么说的人一点也不懂音乐。”
1992年,她说——“可怜的麦克·泰森,他经历了最痛苦的成长过程,而且控告他的那个女人是个妓女。我不在乎他是否强奸了她……”
2000年,她说——“事实上,我是一个同性恋。”
2005年,她说——“我想在将来我会遇到一个不错的人。但是我不知道他是否能忍受我。”
——摘自《音像世界》 2005年第10期
抗议性侵儿童
1992年10月3日，奥康娜出现于美国电视节目Saturday Night Live。在场献唱了鲍勃·马利的歌曲“战争”，抗议罗马天主教的性虐待丑闻。然后拿出教宗若望·保禄二世的照片，大喊 "Fight the real enemy!"（打倒真正的敌人），并当着观众面前撕毁照片，另外因这个节目是现场直播，也是在数百万的电视观众面前做的。
不令人意外的，在媒体的推波助澜之下，奥康娜接着便不断地被嘘下演出舞台并受到观众的言语攻击。例如此事件两周后，在麦迪逊花园举办的鲍勃·迪伦30周年纪念演唱会，当奥康娜要演唱"I Believe In You"时，嘘声（也有鼓励声）太大以致于她无法开唱，于是她便大声喊出了"War"的歌词（《war》-鲍勃·马利的作品）。主持人Kris Kristofferson并安慰她“不要让那些浑球影响你的心情”。
Saturday Night Live在事前并不知道奥康娜会这么做，并且拒绝了重播的要求（不过这在节目推出的DVD特集Saturday Night Live - 25 Years of Music第四集中可以看到）。Comedy Central重播这段时，则用奥康娜拿着一张微笑黑人儿童的照片的画面取代原本画面（应该是彩排时的影像）。SNL为了向观众表示歉意，其中一个动作是让主持人Joe Pesci在隔周的演出时拿着被贴回原状的教宗照片。
这不是奥康娜第一次跟Saturday Night Live不合。此前她拒绝在Andrew Dice Clay主持的秀中出现（因为她“排斥女性”）。但她同意上另一集由Kyle MacLachlan主持的节目。
改变宗教信仰
1997年9月22日，意大利周报Vita采访奥康娜。奥康娜请教宗宽恕她。她说撕毁照片是一件可笑的做法。她还说明她并非叛离天主教，还是信教的，并引用圣奥古斯丁所说的：“愤怒是前往勇气的第一步”。
但是在2002年，她说对当年撕毁照片这事不会改变主意，同时亦表示已离开梵蒂冈的天主教，加入爱尔兰的天主教和东正教使徒教会 (Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church)。
主要专辑
The Lion And The Cobra（1987）
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got（1990）
Am I Not Your Girl?（1992）
Universal Mother（1994）
Faith and Courage（2000）
Sean-Nos Nua（2002）
Throw Down Your Arms（2005）
Theology（2007）
How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?（2012）
I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss（2014）
她自传的会议录于2016年3月出版。
Life and career
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor ( born 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album ‘The Lion and the Cobra’. O’Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince’s song "Nothing Compares 2 U".
Since then, while maintaining her singing career, she has occasionally encountered controversy, partly due to her statements and gestures—such as her ordination as a priest despite being a woman with a Roman Catholic background—and her strongly expressed views on organised religion, women's rights, war, and child abuse.
In addition to her ten solo albums her work includes many singles, songs for films, collaborations with many other artists and appearances at charity fundraising concerts.
Early life
O'Connor was born in Glenageary in County Dublin and was named after Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish President Éamon de Valera and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.She is the third of five children, sister to novelist Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin.
Her parents are Sean O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister and chairperson of the Divorce Action Group, and Marie O'Connor. The couple married young and had a troubled relationship, separating when Sinéad was eight. The three eldest children went to live with their mother, where O'Connor claims they were subjected to frequent physical abuse. Her song "Fire on Babylon" is about the effects of her own child abuse, and she has consistently advocated on behalf of abused children. Sean O'Connor's efforts to secure custody of his children in a country which routinely denied custody to fathers and prohibited divorce, motivated him to become chairman of the Divorce Action Group and a prominent public spokesman. At one point, he even debated his wife on the subject on a radio show.
In 1979 O'Connor left her mother and went to live with her father and his new wife. However, at the age of 15, her shoplifting and truancy led to her being placed for eighteen months in a Magdalene Asylum, the Grianán Training Centre run by the Order of Our Lady of Charity. In some ways, she thrived there, especially in the development of her writing and music, but she also chafed under the imposed conformity. Unruly students there were sometimes sent to sleep in the adjoining nursing home, an experience of which she later commented, "I have never—and probably will never—experience such panic and terror and agony over anything."
One of the volunteers at Grianán was the sister of Paul Byrne, drummer for the band In Tua Nua, who heard O'Connor singing "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand. She recorded a song with them called "Take My Hand" but they felt that at 15, she was too young to join the band.
In 1983 her father sent her to Newtown School, an exclusive Quaker boarding school in Waterford, an institution with a much more permissive atmosphere than Grianan. With the help and encouragement of her Irish language teacher, Joseph Falvey, she recorded a four-song demo, with two covers and two of her own songs which later appeared on her first album.
Through an ad she placed in ‘Hot Press’ in mid-1984, she met Colm Farrelly. Together they recruited a few other members and formed a band called Ton Ton Macoute. The band moved to Waterford briefly while O'Connor attended Newtown, but she soon dropped out of school and followed them to Dublin, where their performances received positive reviews. Their sound was inspired by Farrelly's interest in world music, though most observers thought O'Connor's singing and stage presence were the band's strongest features.
On 10 February 1985 O'Connor's mother was killed in a car accident which, despite their strained relationship, devastated her. Soon afterward she left the band, which stayed together despite O'Connor's statements to the contrary in later interviews, and she moved to London.
O'Connor in June 1993 wrote a public letter in ‘The Irish Times’ which asked people to "stop hurting" her: "If only I can fight off the voices of my parents / and gather a sense of self-esteem / Then I'll be able to REALLY sing ..." The letter repeated accusations of abuse by her parents as a child which O'Connor had made in interviews. Her brother Joseph defended their father to the newspaper but agreed regarding their mother's "extreme and violent abuse, both emotional and physical". Sinead said that month, "Our family is very messed up. We can't communicate with each other. We are all in agony. I for one am in agony."
Her first album The Lion and the Cobra was "a sensation" when it was released in 1987.
Her second album – ‘1990's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got’ – gained considerable attention and mostly positive reviews: it was rated "second best album of the year" by the ‘NME’.
In 1989 O'Connor joined The The frontman Matt Johnson as a guest vocalist on the band's album ‘Mind Bomb’, which spawned the duet "Kingdom of Rain".
In 1990, she joined many other guests for former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters' massive performance of ‘The Wall in Berlin’.
The 1993 soundtrack to the film ‘In the Name of the Father’ featured "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart", with significant contributions from U2 frontman Bono.
The more conventional ‘Universal Mother’ (1994) did not succeed in restoring her mass appeal; however the music videos for the first and second singles, "Fire on Babylon" and "Famine", were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.
In 1994, she appeared in ‘A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who’, also known as ‘Daltrey Sings Townshend’. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey of The Who in celebration of his 50th birthday. A CD and a VHS video of the concert were issued in 1994, followed by a DVD in 1998.
She appeared in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy in 1997, playing the Virgin Mary.
‘Faith and Courage’ was released in 2000, including the single "No Man's Woman", and featured contributions from Wyclef Jean of the Fugees and Dave Stewart of Eurythmics.
Her 2002 album, ‘Sean-Nós Nua’, marked a departure in that O'Connor interpreted or, in her own words, "sexed up" traditional Irish folk songs, including several in the Irish language.
In 2003, she contributed a track to the Dolly Parton tribute album ‘Just Because I'm a Woman’, a cover of Parton's "Dagger Through the Heart". That same year, she also featured on three songs of Massive Attack's album ‘100th Window’ before releasing her double album, ‘She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty’. This compilation contained one disc of demos and previously unreleased tracks and one disc of a live concert recording. Directly after the album's release, O'Connor announced her retirement from music.
On 8 November 2006, O'Connor performed seven songs from her upcoming album ‘Theology’ at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Thirty fans were given the opportunity to win pairs of tickets to attend along with music industry critics.
In January 2010, O'Connor performed a duet with R&B singer Mary J. Blige produced by former A Tribe Called Quest member Ali Shaheed Muhammad of O'Connor's song "This Is To Mother You" (first recorded by O'Connor on her 1997 ‘Gospel Oak’ EP). The proceeds of the song's sales were donated to the organisation GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services).In 2012 the song "Lay Your Head Down", written by Brian Byrne and Glenn Close for the soundtrack of the film ‘Albert Nobbs’ and performed by O'Connor, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
In February 2014, it was revealed that O'Connor had been recording a new album of original material, titled ‘The Vishnu Room’, consisting of romantic love songs.In early June 2014, it was announced that O'Connor's new album had been retitled ‘I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss’, with an 11 August release date. The title derives from the Ban Bossy campaign that took place earlier the same year. The album's first single is entitled "Take Me to Church".
In November 2014 O'Connor's management was taken over by music veterans Simon Napier-Bell and Björn de Water.
She is currently writing a memoir due out in March 2016.
热门评论
- @谁是我的MP3：有没有人觉得她长得有点像赫本？？
- @小甜腥：当年4大独立女声 Sinéad O'Connor ，Tori Amos，PJ Harvey，Liz Phair
- @Emerican：看到她一个人在汽车旅馆，独自对抗肾结石和精神疾病，很是心酸。当她说自己生活中的人只有医生，他是自己活下去的唯一原因，她很想去死，见自己的妈妈，那份绝望的孤独，让人感同身受。原本以为他在一个安静的地方安静地活着。为什么一个如此可爱善良的灵魂要承受命运如此摧残。为什么一个外壳如此坚硬的女人，会有天籁班温柔的声音。为什么天籁般温柔的声音中，要包涵这么多对现实的反抗和力量。
- @sussertod：太销魂了，爱上这声音了，忽然觉得凯莉和席琳迪翁卖的只是唱功
- @Cobra：从80年代末到90年代初的愤怒暴躁，疯狂犀利的摇滚女愤青。到90年代后期做母亲后的温暖柔情。2000后告别摇滚回归家乡爱尔兰做民谣。再到发行宗教专辑归于神。2012年再度唱回摇滚。2014年发行首张爱情主题专辑。。这个女人永远给乐迷带来惊喜！
最新简评（共1076条）
- @夏宿世：她的人生简直就是将各种不同的故事拼接在一起，她的音乐风格也是一直在变化。按年代顺序听她的歌，感觉就像是经历了一场奇妙的旅行
- @阿漂正传：“多少人曾爱慕你年轻时的容颜，可是谁能承受岁月无情的变迁”，没想到这句歌词写的正是你的一生。
- @Ff..(你们是我不会见面的朋友，...)：✧*｡
- @大喵(不要自我设限.....)：❇️❇️❇️
- @音乐ye发烧(音乐ye发烧)：爱尔兰光头女歌手希妮德.奥康娜，其高保真且极具磁性的人声作品，早在90年代发烧友音响圈中知名，2006年更因一曲《天国的女儿》，使王志文主演的《天道》连续剧名声大噪，很多音乐音响爱好者接触之后，更是为了这张专辑而跑遍全城，可谓趋之若鹜，成为后发烧音响时代的奇观。 无疑，奥康娜的成功及特立独行的人格，成为一代爱乐者侃侃而谈的心声话题，也使得熟悉的人们清醒认识到，好的音乐是直击人心的，也许，那将是人类的最后一片净土。
- @一分一秒1999：2020新粉丝
- @いちごいちえ(Cloud Nine)：，，，
- @serenade(我根本就不想写什么………)：一生最爱。
- @未知生物：。她的美不会凋谢
- @张英成玉梅：性格决定命运