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Sinead O'Connor

Alan Light, eMusic.com, July 2007

IT WAS PERHAPS the most shocking crash and burn in pop music history. With her 1987 debut, The Lion and the Cobra, 20-year-old Sinead O'Connor staked her claim as one of the most powerful voices of her generation – a potential that was fully realized three years later when the follow-up, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, became an international sensation.

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