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Sinead O’Connor, a famed Irish singer, who embraced Islam, has died at the age of 56.
The cause of her death was not provided, however, in a statement to the press, her family said they were ‘devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time’.
O’Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her death comes one year after her 17-year-old son died of an apparent suicide.
Global fame
She faced global stardom in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts that year.
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Embracing Islam
In 2018, O’Connor converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada Sadaqat. “This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim,” she wrote on Twitter in October 2018. “This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant.”
In a 2019 interview, she discussed her journey to Islam and said that she started studying scriptures from different religions, trying to find the ‘truth’ about God. “I never thought I would join a religion, but I left Islam until last because I had so much prejudice about Islam,” she said.
“But then when I started reading, and I read just chapter two alone of the Quran, and I realised, ‘Oh my God, I am home’,” she said. “I had been a Muslim all my life and didn’t realise it.”
