Sinéad O'Connor

She stands alongside Van Morrison and U2 as one of Ireland's best musical exports of the decade.

Sinéad O'Connor stormed into the '90s with the release of "Nothing Compares 2 U," which topped charts in 17 countries. Her spare, haunting rendition of the Prince song launched the album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got into the number one spot on English charts during its first week.

Since then, she's become involved in other media-listen for her in the movie Wuthering Heights in the role of narrator and author, Emily Bronte. O'Connor is also known on the political scene; she's performed in aid of Amnesty International in Chile, as well as for the Kurdish Refugee Appeal.

Due to her other performing credits, her album output has been relatively sparse in recent years. Her third album, Am I Not Your Girl, was recorded in New York in 1992 and released the same year. Her first full-length recording was the 1987 The Lion and the Cobra. "Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home" and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" came off that album.

The following year she moved back to Dublin and enrolled in singing lessons at the Parnell School of Music.

In 1994, O'Connor released Universal Mother. Her most recent recording came out this spring as a four-track 'ep,' Gospel Oak.

O'Connor is joined this weekend by the Screaming Orphans.