I have been thinking about Sinead O'Connor quite a lot the last couple of days, as many people no doubt have. Full disclosure: I was not her biggest music fan, for a variety of reasons. And yet... I was a true fan of her, Sinead, the person, and it is that which I have been thinking about.
Of course, I recognized she had the voice of an angel. Haunting, emotional, tearing you this way and that. She had a power like very few ever have to move the listener. She did not need autotune and lots of special effects to do it. Her voice, alone, was enough. Sometimes it was too much, really. She was almost too real to bear.
