Sinead O’Connor Died of Natural Causes, Coroner Says

A London coroner’s workplace mentioned Tuesday that the Irish singer Sinead O’Connor died from pure causes.

Ms. O’Connor, 56, was discovered lifeless at a residential property in London in July. Shortly afterward, the native coroner introduced they might conduct an post-mortem of her physique.

In a short assertion on Tuesday, the coroner mentioned that “Ms. O’Connor died of pure causes.” The coroner mentioned that they had “due to this fact ceased their involvement in her dying.” No additional particulars got about the reason for dying.

Greatest identified for her rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Ms. O’Connor grew to become a world star within the Nineties — not only for her music, however for her political provocations, on- and offstage. Most memorably, Ms. O’Connor tore up an image of Pope John Paul II throughout a 1992 “Saturday Evening Reside” efficiency to protest youngster sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

In an appraisal of Ms. O’Connor’s profession for The New York Instances, the pop critic Jon Caramanica mentioned the singer “was one thing grander than a easy pop star.”

She “was a fervent moralist, an uncompromised voice of social progress and somebody who discovered stardom, and its sandpapered and glossed boundaries, to be a sort of illness,” Mr. Caramanica wrote. “She was additionally a singer of ferocious presents,” he added.