Dolores O'Riordan

At 46 years old, Dolores O'Riordan has this physical status:

Career

In 1989, brothers Mike (bass) and Noel (guitar) Hogan formed the Cranberry Saw Us with drummer Fergal Lawler and singer Niall Quinn in Limerick, Ireland. Quinn left the band less than a year ago. He then told the remaining members that his girlfriend knew a girl who was looking for a band playing original material.

"Niall arrived with Dolores on Sunday afternoon, and I recall she was shy, very soft spoken." Not the Dolores that everyone was supposed to know. And now she comes in, and we're just a bunch of young guys hanging around the neighborhood. It must have been very difficult for her." O'Riordan performed a few songs she had written, as well as a Sinéad O'Connor track "Troy." The band was impressed, and she gave her a cassette with instrumentals, asking if she would play on it. When she returned with a rough copy of "Linger," she was hired. "You know, it was like your jaw drops at her head," Hogan told Rolling Stone. Dolores was musically superior to me because she had been doing it all her life.

When O'Riordan first joined the band, she was still a student at Laurel Hill Collegiate FCJ secondary school. She had set her sights on the musical life and her ambition to be in "a band without boundaries, where I could write my own songs," she told The Guardian in 1995. She was enrolled in her Leaving Certificate at the time. However, the academic study did not have a great deal of concern for her, though her school grades were fine. As a result, O'Riordan left school without a diploma.

The Cranberries' demo tapes, including Nothing Left At All, a three-track EP that was released on tape by local record label Xeric Records, which has sold 300 copies, were included on the Cranberries' website. Pearse Gilmore, the owner of Xeric Studios, became their boss, and the group was given sufficient studio time to produce another demo tape, which he produced. It featured early versions of "Linger" and "Dreams," which were sent to record companies in the United Kingdom. Both the UK press and record industry were drawn to this performance, which prompted a bidding war between record labels. The company eventually signed with Island Records. The Cranberries" were shortened to "The Cranberries" and the company's name was changed to "Uncertain" on the album.

Low-income, sleeping on people's floors, and in cramped vans around Ireland and the United Kingdom, O'Riordan faced difficult touring conditions by then. In addition, she had to face her fear at a time when she first appeared with the Cranberries, singing "with her back to the audience." "We just went up, and we had six songs," a lawler explained. Dolores was turned to the side; Noel, Mike, and I had our heads down." She had spent eight years with classical piano, and she had performed the harmonium in her church for ten years. Since the unveiling of the Cranberries' first album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, Why Can't We? It featured the group's most hit singles, "Dreams" and "Linger," which debuted at No. 1 on the charts. When she was just 22 years old, she ranked 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

O'Riordan sustained hercruciate ligament damage in a skiing crash in the Alps' Val-d'Isère in 1994 and underwent major surgery. The Cranberries' lead single, No Need To Argue, appeared in September 1994. The album reached No. 1 on the charts. It was the first time a female-led band topped Australia's top song poll in ever. For the first time in history, she was the only one in the countdown's history for sixteen years. O'Riordan is still one of the only two women to perform on a No. 66, one of the few female-fronted acts. As of 2020, 1 song appears on the Hottest 100 list [as of 2020]. In the first semester of 1995, she hit her commercial peak with No Need to Argue, the top-selling album by a European artist, and the world's highest selling album of the year by a European artist. The album includes songs such as "I Can't Be With You," "Ridiculous Thoughts," and the group's biggest international hit, "Zombie," which reached top singles charts in several countries. According to Billboard's Dan Weiss, "Zombie" could "crush an entire room with O'Riordan's combined largesse." O'Riordan had achieved both success and fame by this time, since the introduction of the first two albums of the Cranberries with accompanying tours.

O'Riordan had disengaged from Sinéad O'Connor due to the similarity drawn between them in the media. "What I do is so different," O'Riordan said of the comparison, who "loathed" it. ... Who knows? I may have been singing before she ever sang—who knows? "I'm not going to sing because someone from up the road was first because she was a few years older than me." Her leg injury resurfaced unexpectedly, resulting in the cancellation of three concerts in Ireland for December 1994. This resulted in a press backlash, although the audience was more understanding, as O'Riordan had said that the concerts were not cancelled, but postponed until June 1995.

"It's just feel natural and honest to pull your toes along the ground," she claims, whether she had a pixie cut or buzzed hair in the 1990s or performing barefoot. "Barefoot and strutting onstage, an Irish warrior poet with a bleached blonde pixie cut, gold chain necklace, and singing without a single flinch as if it were decreed," Billboard's William Goodman characterized O'Riordan's performance. According to the New York Times, O'Riordan was to blame for a substantial percentage of Dr. Martens boots sales in the 1990s.

Author Alec Foege described O'Riordan as "part Audrey Hepburn, part David Bowie" after attending a Cranberry concert at London's Royal Albert Hall in January 1995. O'Riordan was on the front page of Rolling Stone magazine on March 23, 1995. O'Riordan and Luciano Pavarotti performed "Ave Maria" with Luciano Pavarotti and others in his Pavarotti & Friends series of benefit concerts, entitled Together for the Children of Bosnia, which raised funds for War Child and the Bosnian Children. Princess Diana, who attended the live show, told O'Riordan that the song brought her to tears. O'Riordan performed "Linger" as a duet with Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran Duran

With the singles "Free to Decide," "When You're Gone" and "Hollywood," the Cranberries' third album, To the Faithful Departed, debuted at number two in the United Kingdom and number four in the United States, and number four in the United States, with the singles "Free to Decide" and "Hollywood." The Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number one single "Salvation" was also included in the magazine. The volunteers, who were halfway through the Free to Decide World Tour 1996–97, To the Faithful Departed, O'Riordan, and the Cranberries have canceled the remaining dates, announcing that they will take time off in 1997. "Exhaustion" was the result of an extensive touring schedule, staff pressure, and media intrusion, suspicions, and rumors from the press, the organization said. "I was extremely distraught and I was very anorexic on that record," O'Riordan told Irish Examiner, "I was very upset and I was extremely anorexic on that record, and as it came out, I got worse." O'Riordan was the one who made the decision to take a break, but the majority of the corporation supported her. "Maybe she should have limited her behavior and been more measured," Stephen Street later said.

Dolores O'Riordan and Fergal Lawler received the award for Best Song at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Milan, Italy, on November 12, 1998. At the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, she appeared live with the Cranberries on December 11, 1998.

Bury the Hatchet was released by the Cranberries, exhibiting a maturity of the company's sound. The album debuted on both the Canadian Albums Chart and the European Top 100 Albums, but it wasn't quite as good as the group's first two albums in terms of commercial success. The world tour has been the most successful ever, which began in April 1999 and ended in July 2000.

Bury the Hatchet was quickly followed by Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, which was her fifth attempt with the company, on October 22nd 2001. O'Riordan performed solo in the Vatican on December 15, 2001, as part of Pope John Paul II's annual Vatican Christmas concert (Concerto di Natale). With a 67-piece orchestra accompanying all artists, she performed "Analyse," "Panis angelicus," "Little Drummer Boy," and "Silent Night." Around the world, the program was watched by more than 200 million people.

O'Riordan and the Cranberries announced in Dublin on Friday that they had donated all the funds from their single "Time Is Ticking Out" to the Chernobyl Children's Project. Ali Hewson, as the hotel's founder and executive director, was accompanied by her. After seeing pictures shared with her by Hewson and Roche of children born with congenital anomalies and illnesses exacerbated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 26 April 1986, O'Riordan wrote and recorded the song in spring 2001. "I had just given birth to my second child, a beautiful healthy little girl," O'Riordan explained. [ ] Before this, I had discussed Ali with him, but I was so moved, almost to tears, that I wrote Time Is Ticking Out" before this. She was given a second invitation to appear at the Vatican Christmas concert on December 14, 2002. "Linger," "War Is Over"), and "Adeste Fideles" were among O'Riordan's songs, "Thanks Forever" and "Adeste Fideles." The Millennium Symphony Orchestra performed three songs, directed by Renato Serio, and also on "Adeste Fideles" at the Summertime Gospel Choir.

O'Riordan first met Brian Johnson on the new leg of their Licks World Tour in June 2003, and the Cranberries were considering working together. The two friends began working on pieces for a project that should have been Helen Of Troy's rock opera interpretation, based on the Greek mythology, in mid-July 2003: "roaring anthems, tender ballads, and minimal dialogue" were among the two groups's conversations. Johnson said he's been working on it for about seven years and that the musical to which O'Riodan will lend her voice was supposed to feature many artists. The $1.2 million production made its initial appearance at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Florida in March 2003. Despite the announcement, the venture was delayed and Johnson predicted that it would be completed in late 2003 so it could be played in London.

The band decided to take a break from school to try out solo projects for a short period of time in 2003.

O'Riordan claimed she had become a prisoner of her own fame and did not find a balance in her life. O'Riordan wrote an article in The Independent that she needed time not only to worry about her family and health but also on her solo career. She loved being handled "as per usual person" in Canada and then became a volunteer at her children's school.

O'Riordan's 2003 recruiter Dan Brodbeck and musicians to create new works for her solo project. Graham Hopkins, a drummer who O'Riordan described as "loved for his energy," was one of them. In addition, bassist Marco Mendoza, who had been a long friend of O'Riordan and her husband, was a good friend of O'Riordan's father-in-law, Marco Mendoza; and, Mr. Mendoza's father was a generous servant of O'Riordan's father-in-law. Steve DeMarchi, the Cranberries' main guitarist, as well as his brother Denny DeMarchi, who played keyboards and guitars for the band in the early 2000s, performed keyboards and guitars. Brodbeck said that their selection was "100 percent based on personalities clicking and musical preferences." The DeMarchi brothers' family members had long been friends with Dolores O'Riordan's husband and their three children. Denny DeMarchi wrote that she was "a perfectionist on tour"; during the performance, she would turn to her performers and canceled a particular song "in the moment." Though the engineering team was dissatisfied with having to make several changes, wisdom prevailed, with the statement that "she was physically unable to go there." "If she, singing wasn't just something to do...it was a real life," DeMarchi said.

At the 54th International Song Festival in San Francisco, she performed "Ave Maria" on March 6, 2004. O'Riordan appeared at the first concert of the Festivalbar in Milan, Italy, on May 29th. With the album "Pure Love," she appeared with Italian artist Zucchero on the Italian artist Zucchero. Other artists, including Sting, Sheryl Crow, Luciano Pavarotti, Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Macy Gray, and Eric Clapton were also included on the album. O'Riordan appeared on the Evilenko soundtrack in 2004, including "Angels Go to Heaven," the film's theme song. "She's a natural lyricist with an edge to her voice," Badalamenti later said.

She appeared on the Jam & Spoon's album Tripomatic Fairytales 3003 as a guest vocalist on the track "Mirror Lover" in 2005. O'Riordan made her third appearance at the Vatican's annual Christmas concert on December 3, 2005, where she performed "War Is Over," "Linger" and "Adeste Fideles" in duet with Italian tenor Gian Luca Terranova.

O'Riordan began a career with Ciulla Management in Sherman Oaks, California, in April 2006. The former Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson mentor Tony Ciulla became her boss shortly before releasing her first solo album. She appeared in Adam Sandler's Click, a wedding singer who appeared in a different version of the Cranberries' "Linger," set to strings. On December 9, 2006, she would be attending the Vatican Christmas concert in Monte Carlo, as the event, which was supposed to be held at the Vatican had been postponed by Pope Benedict XVI. "Angel Fire" from her forthcoming solo album with an orchestra and Steve DeMarchi, as well as "Away in a Manger" and "War Is Over)" appeared on her forthcoming solo album. Don Burton, her husband, said that they decided to go with an indie rather than continuing with UMG during her absence, as she had no label at the time. Sanctuary Records signed O'Riordan for a solo record contract in December 2006; of their newly signed artist, Julian Wall of Sanctuary Records, "Dolores comes to us with a strong international resume."

Caswell Coggins' "Ordinary Day" music video was shot in Prague in February 2007.

Are You Listening?

In May 2007, a new model was introduced. The album debuted and debuted at number 23 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart, as well as number 77 on the Billboard 200. "Ordinary Day" was the first single, released in late April, and was produced by BRIT Awards winner Martin "Youth" Glover, whose previous work includes the Verve, Embrace, Primal Scream, U2 and Paul McCartney. "When We Were Young" was the album's second single in August. I'Ordan may have chosen to exploit the Cranberries' deep sonorities, according to Colm O'Hare of Hot Press. Are you Listening? To keep her followers waiting for the reunion, she's done something even more ambitious by releasing this multi-layered series of songs that spans styles and genres. "The couple split their time between Dublin and her husband's native Canada at that time, surrounded by bears, wolves, and all the great outdoor stuff," O'Riordan said.

On the 2007 O'Riordan world tour, O'Riordan appeared on numerous televised live shows in 2007 in favor of the record, and he toured over 22 countries in Europe, North America, and South America. She appeared on TV show Taratata in Paris, France, on March 21, 2007. On April 20, 2007, O'Riordan appeared live on The Late Late Show on RTÉ in Dublin. In an episode that aired on 18 May 2007, she appeared on Carson Daly's late-night show Last Call with Carson Daly in Burbank, California. In an episode that aired on May 19, 2007, she appeared on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in Burbank, California, on May 17, 2007. During a live broadcast of Channel 7's Sunrise in Sydney, Australia, O'Riordan appeared on May 25, 2007. In an episode that aired on September 2, 2007, she appeared on True Music with Katie Daryl on Hdnet in Los Angeles, California, acoustically. On BBC One, the same month she appeared on the Heaven and Earth Show was broadcast. In Catania, Italy, O'Riordan took the stage of Festivalbar on June 29, 2007. Sanctuary Records UK's division ceased operations on August 2nd, 2007 and was bought by UMG for $88 million. "They started off as a support group for Iron Maiden a few years ago," O'Riordan said. But they've been around for ages and now they've become a record company, and I'm sure it's great and solid—they're indie and they'll be fine. Are you Listening? Are you Listening? six months into Jesus is the revelation of what might have been. Universal in the United States has sold them out." Due to illness, she postponed the remainder of her European Tour (Lille, Paris, Luxembourg, Warsaw, and Prague) until November 19th. She appeared in a few small American clubs, including Des Moines, Nashville, and Charlottesville, Virginia, in December 2007.

O'Riordan received an EBBA Award in 2008. Every year, the European Border Breakers Awards highlight the achievements of ten young artists or groups who attracted audiences outside of their own countries with their first internationally released album in the last year.

The University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin, 2009, welcomed the Cranberries to reunite for a concert honoring O'Riordan's appointment as an honorary member of the Society, which led to the band members's decision to reunite for a tour and a recording session. O'Riordan summed up "the minute we started playing it felt like we'd never stopped," implying that "it's chemistry." It just fits." In August 2009, O'Riordan's second album No Baggage, which featured 11 tracks, was released. On July 13, 2009, the first single "The Journey" was released, followed by a second single, "Switch Off the Record." On May 8, 2009, Robin Schmidt directed "The Journey" and shot in 16 mm at Howth Beach Pier and the Howth Summit in Dublin, Ireland. On the 29th of July 2009, the music video premiered on television. "I probably hadn't had my heart on my sleeve like this since the second album No Need to Argue," O'Riordan said of No Baggage. Nonetheless, music critics didn't agree with No Baggage, and neither album nor musician imitated the Cranberries' success.

O'Riordan revealed the Cranberries Reunion World Tour of 107 concerts on August 25, 2009, while promoting her solo album No Baggage in New York City on 101.9 RXP radio. Following the opinion, O'Riordan said she regretted how much she missed the band before making the decision to tour again, adding that "lawler and the two Hogan brothers are a significant piece of my heart and soul." After a screening of South Dakota: A Woman's Right to Choose, a film about teenage pregnancy and abortion, O'Riordan attended, along with actress Tessa Thompson and Emma Bates at The Westwood Theatre in Ontario in October 2009. O'Riordan moderated a discussion with high school students, but she remained neutral and encouraged the girls to express their own views. In the film released in the United States in October 2013, O'Riordan and the Cranberries' song "Dreams," "Apple Of My Eye" and "Stupid" were included.

In mid-November, the Cranberries were revived and the tour began in North America, followed by South America in mid-January 2010 and Europe in March 2010. The band performed tracks from O'Riordan's solo albums, several of the Cranberries' hits, as well as new songs. O'Riordan told Billboard magazine that she loved playing with Fergal Lawler, Noel, and Mike Hogan helped her voice to be more effective in 2010. O'Riordan, on the other hand, suffered from vocal cord nodules, which caused her doctor to order six weeks of inability to function. As a result, concert dates were cancelled and postponed, but the persistent problem remained unaffected until 2012.

On July 1, 2011, a concert titled "TU Warszawa"—"Here, Warsaw"—was the main event of Poland's presidency of the EU council. With the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra in Warsaw, Poland, O'Riordan performed "Zombie" and "I Lied" (English translation of the Polish song "Skamaam"). O'Riordan's first choice was to remain up to date with her bookings, discussions, and finances from this point in her career. Hole, which Goldberg has previously worked with Sonic Youth and Courtney Love's band. In July 2011, O'Riordan commemorated the reunion by traveling with the Cranberries around Asia, where the audience was "impressed with her broad vocal range and strong vocal control." O'Riordan and Noel Hogan occasionally shared thoughts during their hiatus during the six years of their hiatus. They released Roses, their sixth album, in 2011, which was released in February 2012.

The Cranberries canceled nine minutes before the show at Enmore Theatre in Sydney, O'Riordan was unable to appear due to food poisoning. The Roses Tour returned two days later, but the cancelled show was rescheduled for April 26. The last two concerts of the Cranberry North American tour of the Cranberries had to be postponed due to a then undisclosed cause, which later became apparent from O'Riordan's "hectic touring schedule"; this led to some confusion about the tour's upcoming European leg. Johanna Cranitch, a touring backing vocalist, was hired by O'Riordan for the second leg of the Roses World Tour. Steve DeMarchi, the band's backup guitarist, appeared on backup vocals on several tours. "I hope to be able to perform "Ode to My Family" during the second leg of the European tour in November 2012, but for now, it's too soon."

During the 2013–14 season, O'Riordan replaced Sharon Corr as one of the mentors on RTÉ's The Voice of Ireland. Kellie Lewis, the O'Riordan's, won the competition's final with her act Kellie Lewis, who placed in second place. O'Riordan and Marco Mendoza reconnected in October 2013 and were reportedly collaborating on her third solo album for 2014, as well as some film adaptations. "Letting Go" from Are You Listening?, "Silent Night," in duet with Elisa Toffoli, "Away in a Manger" and "War Is Over) were her final performances at the Vatican Christmas concert in December 2013. O'Riordan was invited by the city to perform a special gig in the fall of 2013 as her hometown of Limerick was about to begin its tenure as Ireland City of Culture. She appeared "Linger," "Zombie" and one solo, "The Journey" during a New Year's Eve party under the Spire of St Mary's Cathedral's Spire.

O'Riordan said she had written fifteen songs for a new solo album and planned to fly to Los Angeles to elaborate the beginning of the album. O'Riordan told Barry Egan that the record company made her "extraordinarily wealthy, but sucked the blood out of her like a ferocious vampire." O'Riordan had announced in mid-July 2014 that she would not return to The Voice of Ireland for a second season due to her health problems when travelling from Dublin to Canada for seven weeks.

O'Riordan started recording new material with Jetlag, a collaboration between Andy Rourke of the Smiths and Olé Koretsky, a DJ and producer based in New York, began in April 2014. They then formed a trio under the name D.A.R.K. Science Agrees was their first album, and it was released in September 2016.

The Cranberries released Something Else, acoustic interpretations of their greatest hits and backed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra in late April 2017, marking the band's 25th anniversary. On this album, three new songs appear: "Reality," "Why," and "The Glory," O'Riordan and Noel Hogan's last song written in their song-writing collaboration. Critics lauded the album's return "one of Ireland's finest songsmiths" and responded favorably to the orchestral and acoustic reimagining. "O'Riordan's voice has been more measured, more labile, and full of maturity," music critic Karen Gwee said, although "the thinness of her voice dampens the album's tracks' tense enthusiasm."

The band started the world tour in May 2017 as an acoustic band with a string quartet. O'Riordan sang of a stool for the most part. O'Riordan was described as "excruciating pain" after eleven shows. The Cranberries announced on social media that the cancellation of their sold-out tour in Europe and North America was in the mid-to-upper region of her spine, as well as breathing and singing caused chronic pain. During her time as a child, O'Riordan had been preparing and recording demo versions of the Cranberries.

O'Riordan's last public appearance at Billboard's Christmas party was on December 14, 2017, when she sang three Cranberries songs at Billboard's Christmas party. O'Riordan revealed in late 2017 that she would appear at a Billboard private event, causing devotees to believe she will soon perform again. Eminem's album Revival featured a large sample from the song "Zombie" as the hook for his rap song "In Your Head" on December 15, 2017.

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