Tears for Sinéad

Haunted by the ghost of her precious voice

Sinéad O’Connor has died at age 56. No further details at this time.

I wish I was surprised. She lived a life of immense pain. I started writing an obituary years ago when things looked precarious, but stopped because it was too painful. To say she was a complicated woman would be an extreme understatement.

Her music meant the world to me for 35 years. J…