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This April 17 Sinéad O´Connor will be on stage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and many fans will be surprised when they see the obese and decrepit Irish rock star, especially because in the memories of all she still remains as a fragile on stage figure in sympathy with some noble cause or challenging the powerful.
45 years old Sinéad has re-emerged in the pages of the papers for her scandals and her repeated attempts of suicide, due to her bipolar depression, product of overdosing on pills. In January this year she attempted to commit suicide in Los Angeles after a disastrous marriage in Las Vegas that lasted only 18 days. A few days later she returned to Dublin and repeated the suicide attempt.
Probably the violence she lived in her home as a child has been chasing her for many years. She acknowledged that her mother forced her to steal in her adolescence, so she spent time in a reformatory. Today her case is extreme and she has been forced to use Twitter to ask for help in her times of distress. This has been effective so far, because it has saved her twice in her suicide attempts. But it may not be the best way to control the bipolar disorder that leads from a state of euphoria to deep depressions.
This mental disorder has risk behaviors in the two stages, as in moments of euphoria she seeks for husbands on Twitter, overflowing with positivism and out of control, to then a totally unpredictable erratic behavior. This has impacted on her unkempt, fat and radical changes in styles. She can dress up in gothic stlye or just appear ungainly with her messy gray hair.
Sinéad disappeared from public view for several years as a result of a deep depression and personality disorder that was kept hidden. Her reappearance is marked by dramatic changes, where only her wonderful voice is remotely reminiscent of the ethereal skinhead figure who was a symbol of rock music of the nineties. This charismatic woman who dared to challenge the hierarchy of the Catholic Church breaking an image of Pope John Paul II before the cameras of Saturday Night Live to protest against sexual abuse committed by priests against children has time has blurred out.
Despite all the scandals and questions about her physical and mental state, her new album is the best answer by the artist, and will be presented in concert, because in How About I be me (and you be you) takes us to her best moments. On this album there are issues that were included on her first album (1987) The Lion and the Cobra
Sinéad has sought desperately a solution of her bipolar output through religion, such as her album Theology whose themes were focused on singing to Yahweh.
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Do not wait to rent apartments in Amsterdam this spring, and remember to book tickets in advance to the Sinéad O´Connor concert .
