Remembering Delores O’Riordan from The Cranberries

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(FILES) This file photo taken on January 18, 2012 shows the members of the Irish rock band The Cranberries, singer Dolores O’Riordan (sit), bassist Mike Hogan (L), drummer Fergal Lawler (C) and guitar player Noel Hogan (L) pose on January 18, 2012 in Paris. The Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan died on January 15, 2018 in London at the age of 46, a publicist statement said. (AFP PHOTO / JoÎl SAGET)

Dolores O’Riordan, whose urgent, powerful voice helped make Irish rock band The Cranberries a global success in the 1990s, died suddenly on Monday at a London hotel. She was 46. The singer’s publicist, Lindsey Holmes, confirmed she died in London, where she was recording.

“No further details are available at this time,” Holmes said, adding that the singer’s family was “devastated” by the news.


Irish President Michael D. Higgins said O’Riordan and The Cranberries “had an immense influence on rock and pop music in Ireland and internationally.”

O’Riordan was born on Sept. 6, 1971 in Ballybricken, southwest Ireland. In 1990, she answered an ad from a local band in nearby Limerick city — then called The Cranberry Saw Us — that was looking for a lead singer. A name change and a confluence of factors turned The Cranberries into international stars. Their guitar-based sound had an alternative-rock edge at a time when grunge was storming the music scene.

Here are some memorable Cranberries songs:

 

Dreams

“Dreams” was incredibly popular in Asia after Chinese musician and actress Faye Wong covered it in the film “Chungking Express”. The Chinese lyrics are totally different from the original lyrics however.

Here’s Wong singing her Cantonese version in concert (No idea about that Native American headdress…):

The same Faye Wong Cranberries cover in Mandarin:

 

Zombie

 

Linger

 

Ode to my family

 

I Can’t Be With You

 

Just my imagination

 

Salvation

 

When You’re Gone

 

Free to decide

 

I’m still remembering

Story by the Associated Press with information from CGTN America.