Film director, godfather to O’Connor’s youngest child, said O’Connor would have done ‘extraordinary things’ if she had emerged from ‘turbulent period in her life’
Mr Jordan added that the singer had “an extraordinary ability to reinterpret any genre of music that she came to”. He asked her to sing the song She Moves Through the Fair for the closing credits of Michael Collins. The composer Elliot Goldenthal, who did the score for the film said that the singer had no vibrato whatsoever in her voice, which created an “extraordinary” effect.
The singer was very popular as a performer on film soundtracks because of her ability to “leap from one octave to another”, he said. This was especially evident in her interpretation of the Prince song Nothing Compares to You, which he said she came to hate. “She was remarkably intelligent and remarkably artistic and always made these extraordinary leaps that most of us don’t do. So that’s why I would have loved to see more of her work. The last time I met her, she played to me a song that she just had composed called No Veteran Dies Alone which she had done with David Holmes. It hasn’t been released yet, and it was the most extraordinary ballad. It’s one of the best things she had ever done.
The last time they met was a month ago outside a little cottage she was renting in Dalkey. “I was walking down there and she was sitting outside on a bench smoking a cigarette and all these tourists were passing by, none of them knew who she was. So we sat down for a cup of coffee and talked about music and I thought she was great. And then she moved to Brixton. She sent a few texts saying she had left. I just wish she was still around us, that’s all really.
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