Sinéad O'Connor Told Her Children What to Do in the Event of Her Death

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Sinead O'Connor knew that it was important to plan for certain things in the event of her death.In a 2021 interview with, the Irish musician — who died earlier this week at age 56 — revealed that she had given her children instructions on how to protect her music and money when she died.«I've always instructed my children since they were very small, 'If your mother drops dead tomorrow, before you call 911, call my accountant and make sure the record companies don't start releasing my records and not telling you where the money is,'» she revealed.O’Connor had four children, three of whom were living at the time of her death: son Jake Reynolds was born in 1987 to the singer and her first husband, music producer John Reynolds.

Her daughter, Roisin Waters, born in 1996, grew up living with her father, Irish journalist John Waters. She welcomed son Shane in 2004 with musician Donal Lunny, and son Yeshua Francis Neil Bonadio with Frank Bonadio in 2006.«See, when the artists are dead, they're much more valuable than when they're alive,» O'Connor continued of her advice to her kids. «Tupac has released way more albums since he died than he ever did alive, so it's kind of gross what record companies do.»O'Connor found her greatest success with a cover of Prince's «Nothing Compares 2 U,» and while the two musicians had a complicated relationship that seemed to end with a physical encounter that left O'Connor «very angry with him,» she was outspoken in her interview about the way the Purple One's music had continued to be released following his death in 2016.«One of the things that's a great bugbear with me, I get very angry when I think of it, is the fact that they're raping his vault,» she shared.«All musicians, we have songs.