西尼德·奥康娜
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西尼德·瑪麗·伯納黛特·奥康娜 （Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor，1966年12月8日-），是著名的愛爾蘭流行歌手和歌曲作者。除了音樂以外，她還以反傳統的行為（尤其是其光頭）和有爭議性的觀點而聞名。
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[编辑] 早年
奥康娜生在都柏林，五兄弟姐妹中排行第三，其他孩子分別名為Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin。 她原本的名字是由愛爾蘭總統Eamon de Valera的妻子Sinéad de Valera改的。
她的父親是John O'Connor，原任職結構工程師，後來轉職為律師；而母親是Marie O'Connor。她的父母很早已結婚，但當奧康娜8歲時便已離婚，5兄弟姊妹中，最年長的3位（包括奧康娜）與母親同居。John O'Connor's efforts to secure custody of his children in a country which routinely gave custody to the mother and prohibited divorce caused him to become chairman of the Divorce Action Group and become a prominent public spokesman. At one point, he even debated his own wife on the subject on a radio show.
In 1979年, Sinéad O'Connor left her mother and went to live her father and his new wife. However, her shoplifting and truancy caused her to end up in a reform school at age 15, the Grinan Training Centre run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. In some ways, she thrived there, especially in 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 which made her later comment "I have never - and probably will never - experience such panic and terror and agony over anything". (Rolling Stone, 1988年4月)
One of the volunteers at Grinan was 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年, her father sent her to Newtown School, an exclusive Quaker boarding school in Waterford, an institution with a much more permissive atmosphere than Grinan. With the help and encouragement of her Gaelic teacher, she recorded a four song demo, with two covers and two of her own songs which would later appear on her first album.
Through an ad she placed in Hot Press in the summer of 1984年, she met Columb Farrelly. Together they recruited a few other members and formed a band called Ton Ton Macoute, named for the zombies of Haitian myth. In the autumn, the band even moved to Waterford briefly while O'Connor attended Newtown, but she soon dropped out of school and followed them to Dublin, where their performances gained them positive attention. Their sound was inspired by Farrelly's interest in witchcraft, mysticism, and world music, though most observers thought O'Connor's singing and stage presence was the band's driving force.
On 2月10日, 1985年, O'Connor's mother died in a car accident. O'Connor was devastated despite her strained relationship with her mother. Soon afterward she left the band, which stayed together despite O'Connor's statements to the contrary in later interviews, and moved to London.
[编辑] 音樂生涯
O'Connor's time as singer for Ton Ton Macoute brought her to the attention of the music industry and she was signed by Ensign Records. She also acquired an experienced manager, Fachtna O'Ceallaigh, former head of U2's Mother Records. Soon after she was signed she embarked on her first major project, providing the vocals for the song "Heroine", which she cowrote with U2's guitarist The Edge for the soundtrack to the film Captive. While she was building bridges she was also burning them. O'Ceallaigh, who had been fired by U2 for complaining about them in an interview, was outspoken with his comments about music and politics, and O'Connor began to do adopt the same habits, making controversial comments about the IRA and even directing negative remarks towards U2, who were admirers of her music.
Things were contentious in the studio as well. She was paired with veteran producer Mick Glossop, whom she later derided as "a fucking old hippy". They had differing visions regarding her debut album and four months of recordings were scrapped. During this time she became pregnant by her session drummer John Reynolds (formerly of the band Transvision Vamp) and the record company pressured her to get an abortion. Thanks largely to the persuasion of O'Celallaigh, the record company allowed O'Connor, 20 years old and by then seven months pregnant, to produce her own album.
O'Connor's first two albums (1988's The Lion and the Cobra and 1990's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got) gained considerable attention and mostly positive reviews. She was praised for her unique voice and her original songs. She was also noted for her appearance: her shaved head, angry expression, and sometimes shapeless or unusual clothing.
I Do Not Want contained her biggest hit single, "Nothing Compares 2 U", a song written by Prince and arranged for her by him.
In 1990 she joined many other guests for former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin. (Later, in 1996 she guested on Broken China, a solo album by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd.)
In 1992 O'Connor released Am I Not Your Girl?, an album of standards and torch songs that she had grown up listening to. Her interpretations ran from sublime to overwrought to bizarre, and the record lost all the commercial momentum her career had built up until then.
The 1993年 soundtrack to film In the Name of the Father featured the popular "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart".
1994年's more conventional Universal Mother did not succeed in restoring her mass appeal. She toured with Lollapalooza in 1995, but dropped out when she became pregnant. O'Connor was replaced on the bill by Elastica.
Her 2002 album, Sean-Nós Nua, marked a departure in that O'Connor interpreted traditional Irish folk songs, including several in the Irish language.
[编辑] Garden State Arts Center controversy
1990年8月24日，奥康娜在美國新澤西州Holmdel的Garden State Arts Center演出。這個場地的惯例是在演出開始之前播放美國國歌的錄音。O'Connor, who said she was unaware of this practice until shortly before the show was to begin, refused to go on if the anthem was played. Venue officials acquiesced to her demand and omitted the anthem, and so O'Connor performed, but they later permanently banned her. O'Connor said that she had a policy of not having the national anthem of any country played before her concerts and meant "no disrespect" but that she "will not go on stage after the national anthem of a country which imposes censorship on artists. It's hypocritical and racist." The incident made tabloid headlines and O'Connor came in for heavy criticism and her songs were banned from a number of radio stations. Frank Sinatra, who performed at the Center the next night, said he wished he could "kick her in the ass." O'Connor replied "I wouldn't be the first woman he has threatened to hit" and her father said Sinatra was too old to lift his leg to kick her.
[编辑] Saturday Night Live controversy
1992年10月3日，奥康娜出現於美國電視節目Saturday Night Live。在場獻唱了Bob Marley的歌曲“戰爭"，抗議羅馬天主教的性虐待醜聞。然後拿出教宗若望·保禄二世的照片，大喊 "Fight the real enemy!"（打倒真正的敵人），並當著觀眾面前撕毁照片，另外因這個節目是現場直播，也是在數百萬的電視觀眾面前做的。[1]
不令人意外的，在媒體的推波助瀾之下，奥康娜接著便不斷地被噓下演出舞台並受到觀眾的言語攻擊。例如此事件兩週後，在麥迪遜花園舉辦的鲍勃·迪伦30週年紀念演唱會，當奥康娜要演唱"I Believe In You"時，噓聲（也有鼓勵聲）太大以致於她無法開唱，於是她便大聲喊出了"War"的歌詞（以上兩首都是鲍勃·迪伦作品）。主持人Kris Kristofferson並安慰她「不要讓那些渾球影響你的心情」。
Saturday Night Live 在事前並不知道奥康娜會這麼做，並且拒絕了重播的要求（不過這在節目推出的DVD特集'Saturday Night Live - 25 Years of Music第四集中可以看到）。Comedy Central重播這段時，則用奥康娜拿著一張微笑黑人兒童的照片的畫面取代原本畫面（應該是彩排時的影像）。SNL為了像觀眾表示歉意，其中一個動作是讓主持人Joe Pesci在隔週的演出時拿著被貼回原狀的教宗照片。
這不是奥康娜第一次跟Saturday Night Live不合。此前她拒絕在Andrew Dice Clay主持的秀中出現（因為他「排斥女性」）。但她同意上另一集由Kyle MacLachlan主持的節目。
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，是的女孩的行为。她还她还说明她并非叛离天主教，还是信教的，並引用 聖奧古斯丁所說的：「憤怒是前往勇氣的第一步」。
[编辑] Ordination
In the late 1990s, she was controversially ordained into the Independent Catholic group known as the Latin Tridentine Church, by Irish bishop Michael Cox, in disregard for the prohibition on the ordination of women within Roman Catholicism. As a result she automatically excommunicated herself from the Roman Catholic Church. Cox contacted her to offer ordination following her appearance on the RTÉ's Late Late Show, during which she told the presenter, Gay Byrne, that had she not been a singer, she would have wished to have been a Catholic priest. After her service of ordination, she indicated that she wished to be called Mother Bernadette Mary.
In 2003年 she announced that she was going to leave the music industry [1] and train to be a catechist (teacher of the Catholic religion to school children).
O'Connor has been married twice. Her first marriage was to John Reynolds, a record producer, writer and musician who co-produced several albums, including her fourth, Universal Mother, in 1994. Her second marriage was to Nicholas Sommerlad, a journalist said to be related to the Queen of Sweden (whose maiden name is Sommerlath), in 2002 but they separated in 2003.
In a magazine article and in a programme on 愛爾蘭電視電台 (Ryan Confidential, broadcast on RTÉ 1 on 5月29日, 2003年), she outed herself as bisexual, stating that while most of her sexual relationships had been with men, she had had three relationships with women. She has three children, a son, Jake Reynolds, by her first husband, a daughter, Róisín Waters, by The Irish Times columnist John Waters, and a son, Shane.
She has claimed to have been physically, sexually and mentally abused by her mother, who was killed in a car accident when Sinéad was 17. Her claims have been disputed by other members of her family.
In 2005 she performed at Madison Square Garden at the Jammy Awards and announced plans to release a reggae-influenced album, named Throw Down Your Arms, in October 2005. ABC Radio News, announcing her new album, reported that she has found solace in the Rastafarian faith, and that the religion "saved her life."
In a 2005 interview by the reggae artist Burning Spear in Andy Warhol's "Interview" magazine, she reported that her mission is to "rescue God from religion."
[编辑] 作品列表
[编辑] 專輯
- The Lion and the Cobra (1987年)
- I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990年)
- Am I Not Your Girl? (1992年)
- Universal Mother (1994年)
- Gospel Oak EP (1997年)
- So Far...The Best Of Sinéad O'Connor (1997年)
- Faith And Courage (2000年)
- Sean-Nós Nua (2002年)
- She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty (2003年)
- Collaborations (2005年)
- Throw Down Your Arms (2005年) (A collection of cover versions of Reggae hits)
[编辑] 單曲
- "Mandinka" (1987年)
- "I Want Your (Hands on Me)" {1988年)
- "Troy" (1988年)
- "Three Babies" (1990年)
- "My Special Child" (1991年)
- "Success Has Made a Failure of our Home" (1992年)
- "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" (1992年)
- "Fire on Babylon" (1994年)
- "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" (1994年)
- "Famine"/"All Apologies" (1995年)
- "Thank You For Hearing Me" (1996年)
- "This is a Rebel Song" (1997年)
- "This is to Mother You" (1997年)
- "No Man's Woman" (2000年)
- "Jealous" (2000年)
- "Troy (remix)" (2002年)
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |||
| US Hot 100 | US Modern Rock | US Mainstream Rock | UK | |||
| 1988年 | "Jump in the River" | - | #17 | - | - | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got |
| 1990年 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" | #1 (4 weeks) | #1 (1 week) | - | - | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got |
| 1990年 | "The Emperor's New Clothes" | #60 | #1 (1 week) | - | - | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got |
| 1992年 | "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" | - | #20 | - | - | Am I Not Your Girl? |
| 1994年 | "You Made Me the Theif of Your Heart" | - | #24 | - | - | In the Name of the Father soundtrack |
[编辑] 延伸閱讀
- Guterman, Jimmy. Sinéad : Her Life and Music. Warner Books, 1991. ISBN 0446392545.
- Hayes, Dermott. Sinéad O'Connor: So Different. Omnibus, 1991. ISBN 0711924821.
