[情報] Sinead O'Connor 想退休
Sinead O'Connor To Retire From Music
In a message posted in the forum on her official Web site,
enigmatic Irish artist Sinead O'Connor has declared that this
summer she will seek to discard her celebrity. "As of July 2003 I
shall be retiring from the music business [in] order to pursue a
different career," she writes. A spokesperson for Vanguard
Records, O'Connor's U.S. label, confirmed to Billboard.com that
the message is authentic.
The decision may be linked to a fatigue syndrome that recently
caused the O'Connor to cancel a string of European performances
with U.K. act Massive Attack. Afterward, her site's Webmaster
reported that the artist was "advised to rest as much as possible
over the next few months."
Before retiring completely, O'Connor has several projects to
finish. "The last recordings I will make will be (believe it or
not) a track for Dolly Parton's upcoming tribute album and a track
for [Irish accordionist] Sharon Shannon's forthcoming album," she
writes. The tracks will be recorded sometime next month.
The final release of O'Connor's career will be a concert and
documentary DVD she says will be released in July. Titled
"Goodnight, Thank You. You've Been a Lovely Audience," the artist
says it will feature "tracks from way back," as well as songs from
last year's Vanguard album "Sean Nos Nua."
"Thanks to all of ye for a great time and a great education,"
O'Connor glibly states in her farewell announcement.
O'Connor released a total of seven albums and one EP, beginning
with 1987's "The Lion & the Cobra" (Chrysalis). Her second album,
1990's "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" (Ensign/Chrysalis),
reached No. 1 on Billboard's album chart.
Just before the release of "Sean Nos Nua" -- which debuted at No.
6 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and No. 139 on The
Billboard 200 -- O'Connor told Billboard she wanted to make
further recordings, including a country album, a
religious/spiritual album, a set of opera songs, and even a
children's album. She also said she hoped to begin recording a new
album in late 2003.
The balance of O'Connor's message is a plea to be left alone once
she detaches herself from the music industry. "I would request
that as of July, since I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person,
and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life, could people please
afford me my privacy," she says.
"[I] am a very shy person, believe it or not. So I ask with love,
that I be left in peace and privacy by people who love my records
too. And I hope it doesn't sound rude. It ain't meant rude. I am
glad that ye are helped by my songs. So help me too, by giving me
what is best for me, a private life.
"My advise [sic] to anyone who ever admires a so called
'celebrity' if u see them in the street, don't even look at them.
If u love them, then the lovingest [sic] thing u can do to show
them so is leave them alone and don't stare at them! Or bang on
restaurant windows when they in there. Or make them get their
picture taken, or write their names on bits of paper. That's
pieces of them. And one day they wake up with nothing left of
themselves to give."
-- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y.
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