“She stood for something,” wrote Ice T. “Unlike most people.”
Fans and friends alike have come to social media to remember O’Connor as a gifted performer, a Cassandra unappreciated in her time, and as a devoted mother. O’Connor came to U.S. attention with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” and was pushed out of the spotlight after protesting the abuse of children by the Catholic church onAs Janelle Monáe tweeted, her most famous act was tearing up a picture of the Pope and saying “Fight the real enemy” on live TV.
It’s an act of protest that only becomes more prescient with every exposé of systemic abuse. O’Connor was praised for the transparency with which she lived her life, and all the struggles therein. Earlier this year, her son Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor. Rob Delaney wrote on social media “My son Henry listened to her & I think about him when I listen to her now. I was so sad when her son died. I love her she is my hero in art & honesty.
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