Sineád O’Connor, the troubled Irish singer and activist who scored a global smash with Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U in 1990 and was banned from Saturday Night Live for tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance two years later, has died at 56, according to a statement from her family provided to Irish TV and radio broadcaster RTÉ. No details on the cause, date or place of her death were given.
