Sinead O’Connor ~ Amazing Grace (August, 2000)

After she justifiably and rightfully tore the picture of the world’s biggest and richest pimp of children on #SNL back in 1992 - foreshadowing the harrowing, grotesque reality of organized religion yet to be fully realized - her career was mostly derailed, even though the years that followed proved her right. After living decades of life and loss, familial destruction and mental illness, and the suicide of her son, Shane, a little over a year ago, the attempts to distill her true truth-to-power was an ongoing odyssey, and I had always hoped that she had long found her inner peace and tranquility. There were glimpses of it, in recent performances on TV shows around the globe and her Facebook and Twitter updates. And, maybe she did. I’ll never know. We’ll never know. Through it all there was always the voice. THAT voice. One of the greatest natural wonders the world has ever known, I say without a hint of hyperbole. And a clarion call that brought me more mental clarity than most other voices. Was I wor