Who is the cranberries singer

At 2am, she spoke to her mother. Later that night, she died. I meet the band four days before an inquest ruled that the year-old had drowned accidentally in the bath, with high levels of alcohol in her blood. Hogan looks around the lobby and says it is hard to believe that the last time he saw her it was somewhere so mundane.

On the top floor, with its views out over the Shannon river, three Cranberries bear the mark of men still coming to terms with bereavement. Like many bands who lose a member, they threw themselves into activity. Their new album was nearly finished, so they completed it; April and May passed by in a blur. The strangest thing, they tell me, was that working in the studio was not all that different. The three of them would always record by day and Dolores would come in to sing at night, alone, with producer Stephen Street.

Not physically, but mentally; those months from when Dolores passed away were intense. She grew up 10 miles out of Limerick in Ballybricken, but they are from the town and met when breakdancing in their teens in the mids. We were lucky enough that she had come into this room. She learned her yodel from her dad, a country music fan, and there were church influences, too.

The music mag went to her family home to meet the band and painted an intriguing, kitsch picture: a Jesus clock and holy water from Lourdes, with Christmas turkeys being bred in a shed in the dark. Throughout her life she would flip, in interviews, between poetic positivity and confession.

RIP Dolores". RIP Dolores. Parry explained how he only came to hear about the meaning of then song after her passing, telling BBC's Good Morning Ulster show: "Only yesterday did I discover that her group, or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington.

He added: "I was completely unaware what it was about. My wife came home from the police centre where she worked yesterday and told me the news. The words are both majestic and also very real. Kovac says Island Records urged them not to release it as a single.

But she and the Cranberries soon hit a rough patch. She later claimed she tried to overdose on pills in and had a drinking problem. Her marriage ended in , the same year she was arrested for stepping on the foot of a flight attendant and head-butting a police officer; a judge spared her from jail after determining she was mentally ill at the time.

She was subsequently diagnosed as bipolar. What you saw was what you got. With the end of her marriage, she moved to New York and began working with a new band, D. But she never fully abandoned the Cranberries, who last year unveiled Something Else, a collection of new and old material played unplugged and orchestrated.

There, work again beckoned. She was planning to meet with Youth about the second, near-completed D. Watch below. Newswire Powered by.