TRIBUNNEWS.COM - Vokalis The Cranberries , Dolores O’Riordan ditemukan meninggal dunia di kamar hotel Park Lane London , Inggris , Senin, (15/1/ 2018).
Mengutip New York Times, Juru bicara kepolisian Metropolitan menjelaskan, polisi dipanggil ke hotel sekitar pukul 09.05 waktu setempat dan menemukan Dolores O'Riordan sudah tak bernyawa.
Sementara itu, Lindsey Holmes, juru bicara Dolores saat dikonfirmasi telah membenarkan informasi menginggalnya penyanyi asal Irlandia itu.
Lindsey mengatakan Dolores meninggal secara tiba-tiba.
Kabar duka itupun dengan cepat tersebar di seluruh dunia, terlihat dari banyaknya ucapan duka di media sosial, hingga sempat memuncaki trending Twitter.
Meninggalnya Dolores menyisakan cerita tersendiri di kalangan penggemar hingga rekan sesama artis.
Berikut Tribunnews.com merangkum 5 fakta terkait meninggalnya Dolores dari berbagai sumber:
1. Rekaman yang Belum Terwujud Kabar meninggalnya Dolores turut membawa kabar buruk bagi pihak band Bad Wolves.
Band tersebut sebelumnya direncanakan akan rekaman dengan Dolores O'Riordan.
Fakta mengejutkan itu terungkap dalam pernyataan penuh patah hati mereka karena kolaborasi mereka tidak akan pernah terjadi.
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, LONDON - Tutup usia di umur yang masih terbilang muda, vokalis The Cranberries , Dolores O'Riordan ternyata sempat mengalami berbagai gangguan kesehatan.
Dolores O'Riordan dinyatakan meninggal dunia Senin (15/1/2018) usai jenazahnya ditemukan di Hotel Hilton Park Lane, London.
Kabar kematian vokalis yang tutup usia di umur 46 tahun itu dikonfirmasi oleh pihak manajemen, keluarga, dan hotel tempatnya menginap.
"Pihak keluarga O'Riordan sangat terpukul mendengan kabar mendadak tersebut dan meminta agar semua pihak menghormati privasi keluarga di masa sulit ini," demikian isi pernyataan dari pihak manajemen The Cranberries .
Hingga kini masih belum diketahui apa yang menjadi penyebab kematian Dolores O'Riordan yang disebut "sangat mendadak" itu.
Namun, sepanjang hidupnya, O'Riordan sempat menderita berbagai gangguan kesehatan, yang kebanyakan diakibatkan oleh depresi dan tekanan hidup.
O'Riordan sempat mengalami anoreksia akibat gangguan makan dan depresi yang dideritanya semasa awal menginjak usia dewasa.
Menurutnya, itu diakibatkan trauma atas pelecehan seksual yang pernah dialaminya saat masih berusia delapan tahun.
Dolores O'Riordan Dolores O'Riordan death not treated as suspicious, say police Met police issue statement about Cranberries singer, who died in London on Monday Dolores O’Riordan died in London on Monday. Photograph: Ferran Paredes/Reuters
The death of the Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan is not being treated as suspicious, Scotland Yard has said.
The Irish musician was found dead at the Hilton hotel in Park Lane, London, on Monday morning. She had been in the capital to record a cover of Zombie, one of her group’s biggest hits, with the hard rockers Bad Wolves.
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A police spokeswoman confirmed the case had now been passed on to a coroner. A statement said: “Police in Westminster have dealt with a sudden death. Officers were called at 9.05am on Monday 15 January to a hotel in Park Lane, W1. A 46-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
“The death is not being treated as suspicious. A report will be compiled for the coroner.”
O’Riordan, from Friarstown, Kilmallock, Co Limerick, was renowned for her distinctive singing voice. The Cranberries enjoyed huge success in the 1990s and O’Riordan performed with them until 2003 when the band split.
Their hits began with the song Linger, which reached the Top 10 in the US and Ireland, and 14 in the UK. The band built on the success of the song and their album, Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, with their next album, 1994’s No Need to Argue.
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The lead single Zombie, written in the wake of a 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington that killed three-year-old Jonathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry, showed a new side to the band and to O’Riordan’s voice.
Parry’s father was among those who paid tribute to O’Riordan. Colin Parry, who has worked as a peace campaigner since the atrocity, said he had no idea that the song Zombie was inspired by the explosion in the Cheshire town.
He said the words of the song were “majestic and very real” and he had not known about the significance of the words and its subject matter until after O’Riordan’s death on Monday.
He told Radio Ulster: “To read the words written by an Irish band in such a compelling way was very, very powerful. I liken it to the enormous amount of mail expressing huge sympathy that we received in the days, weeks and months following our loss.”
A statement from O’Riordan’s publicist on Monday described her death as sudden, adding: “Family members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”
A spokeswoman for the London Hilton on Park Lane said: “It is with deep regret that we can confirm a guest sadly passed away at the hotel on Monday 15 January. We offer our sincere condolences to their family at this difficult time.”
A Cranberries reunion tour last year had to be cancelled because O’Riordan was suffering from a back problem. The other members of the band – Noel and Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler – tweeted:
The Cranberries (@The_Cranberries) We are devastated on the passing of our friend Dolores. She was an extraordinary talent and we feel very privileged to have been part of her life from 1989 when we started the Cranberries. The world has lost a true artist today.
Noel, Mike and Fergal
The Irish president, Michael Higgins, said he learned of the news with “great sadness”, adding: “To all those who follow and support Irish music, Irish musicians and the performing arts, her death will be a big loss.”
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‘I have a lot of secrets about my childhood [but they] are just for me,” Dolores O’Riordan told the Guardian in 1995. She and her Limerick rock quartet, the Cranberries, were then at the peak of their success, well on the way to selling 40m albums, and O’Riordan was one of the highest profile female singers in the English-speaking world. It was nearly 20 years later that she revealed that she had been abused for four years from the age of eight by someone close to her family. By her own account, O’Riordan, who has died aged 46 of a cause as yet unknown, spent most of her adult life seeking a balance between depression and anorexia, and the rewards of great professional success.
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She was 21 when the Cranberries reached the US Top 10 with their second single, Linger, which established them as a headline act there. In the UK, the influential music press decreed them unexcitingly traditional, but the public were enchanted by the group’s melodies, and especially by O’Riordan’s haunting voice; their debut album topped the British chart and the next three were Top 10 hits. It was a similar story in the rest of Europe and Australia. O’Riordan became a symbol of pride for both Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
The Cranberries’ rapid ascent exacerbated O’Riordan’s “terrible self-loathing”, generating anorexia and an eventual breakdown. A suicide attempt in 2013 was followed by a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Last year, she spoke vividly of being “at the hypomanic side of the spectrum on and off for a long period”, and a hypomanic episode was cited when she was arrested for erratic behaviour on a transatlantic flight in 2014. She told the police: “I am an icon. I am the Queen of Limerick.” There were also physical problems: a Cranberries reunion tour scheduled for 2017 in support of their first album in five years was cancelled due to O’Riordan’s back pain.
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Born in Ballybricken, Co Limerick, O’Riordan was the youngest of nine children (two of whom died in infancy) of Terence O’Riordan, a former farm labourer who was left unable to work after an accident, and his wife, Eileen, a school caterer, and went to Laurel Hill, a Roman Catholic school in Limerick. She was a tomboy, burying her dolls in the garden and spending most of her time with her heavy-metal-loving brothers. Yet she also played the organ in church and, well into her teens, wore flowery dresses bought for her by her mother. The influence of her church music and the heavy rock she heard at home instilled a desire to join a band – specifically, “a band with no barriers, where I could write my own songs”. That’s what she got.
At 18 she landed a job with a Limerick group called the Cranberry Saw Us by playing an early version of a song she had written, Linger (it was inspired by her first kiss, aged 17: “I’d always thought that putting tongues in mouths was disgusting, but when he gave me my first proper kiss, I did indeed ‘have to let it linger’,” she said last year).
Equally in thrall to rock and Gaelic folk music, her voice was startling and steely, and gelled uncommonly well with the band’s melodicism. Her Doc Martens-shod, spiky-haired look provided a visual anchor, overshadowing the rest of the group entirely. Despite being out of step with the prevailing Britpop and grunge scenes, they were taken on by the Smiths’ former manager, Geoff Travis, and courted by 32 record companies. The pivotal moment came when the successful label Island booked them as the support act on the fast-rising band Suede’s 1993 American tour.
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Suede’s seedy ambiguity cut no ice in the US, but the Cranberries returned home as stars. Their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, and 17m-selling 1994 follow-up, No Need to Argue, made O’Riordan so famous that, to her distress, she could not leave her hotel room. Linger and the next single, Zombie – written in response to the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington – were ubiquitous on MTV, increasing her sense of isolation.
Despite having a metal rod put into her leg following a 1994 skiing accident, she was contractually compelled to tour throughout that year, and played some of the shows in a wheelchair. That was also the year she married Don Burton, then Duran Duran’s tour manager. Most of her happiness seems to have stemmed from their three children; when her attempt to take her life in 2013 failed, she saw it as a sign that she was meant to stay with them.
After the Cranberries split in 2003, O’Riordan launched a fitful solo career that yielded two albums, Are You Listening? (2007) and No Baggage (2009). She worked with the Smiths bassist Andy Rourke on a project called DARK, and was a judge on one season of the Irish version of the TV show The Voice. Still esteemed by other musicians, she appeared on records by Zucchero and Jam & Spoon, and at the time of her death had come to London to re-record Zombie with a rock band, Bad Wolves.
Her goal, she said in 2017, was to make at least one more album and go on tour again: “I haven’t been doing too much over the last five years. Sometimes you go through periods where you’re not writing music, you’re just dealing with your personal life.”
She and Burton divorced in 2014. Her children, Taylor, Molly and Dakota, survive her.
• Dolores Mary Eileen O’Riordan, singer, born 6 September 1971; died 15 January 2018
