{"id":343948,"date":"2018-01-15T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cranberries-lead-singer-dolores-oriordan-dies-suddenly\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:25:14","slug":"cranberries-lead-singer-dolores-oriordan-dies-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cranberries-lead-singer-dolores-oriordan-dies-suddenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranberries Lead Singer Dolores O’Riordan Dies Suddenly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer with The Cranberries, has died suddenly at the age of 46.<\/p>\n

The Limerick woman\u00a0was in London for a short recording session.<\/p>\n

In a statement her publicist said no further details are available at this time.<\/p>\n

The statement added that “family members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”<\/p>\n

Police in London have said they were called to a hotel on Park Lane in Westminster at 9.05am this morning.<\/p>\n

Ms O’Riordan was pronounced dead at the scene. They say her death is being treated as unexplained at this point.<\/p>\n

Ms O’Riordan, a native of Ballybricken,\u00a0shot to\u00a0fame in her early 20s during\u00a0the\u00a01990s as frontwoman of The Cranberries.<\/p>\n

She went on to massive international success and sold more than 40 million records worldwide.<\/p>\n

Their hits included\u00a0Zombie,\u00a0Linger\u00a0and\u00a0Dreams. O\u2019Riordan\u2019s haunting vocals were the act’s main selling point and they released five original albums before taking a break in 2003.<\/p>\n

Ms O’Riordan released two solo albums during the hiatus before the band reformed in 2009.<\/p>\n

She was also a judge on RT\u00c9’s The Voice of Ireland.<\/p>\n

Tributes pour in for Dolores O’Riordan<\/h4>\n

President Michael D Higgins has led\u00a0tributes to the singer, saying her death will be “a big loss” to all those who support and follow Irish music.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Mr Higgins said “Dolores O’Riordan and The Cranberries had an immense influence on rock and pop music in Ireland and internationally.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Canon Liam…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer with The Cranberries, has died suddenly at the age of 46. The Limerick woman\u00a0was in London for a short recording session. In a statement her publicist said no further details are available at this time. The statement added that “family members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}