When Sinéad O'Connor died in July this year the world was deprived of one of its most distinctive and significant voices. In 2015 Sinéad explored that voice with Iarla Ó Lionáird as part of his series Vocal Chords which was made for the Lyric Feature.
Vocal Chords was a documentary series which took presenter Iarla Ó Lionáird on a musical odyssey to discover the global phenomenon of the human voice, asking the simple but vital questions - why do we sing and what happens when we do?
In this programme, he talks to Sinéad O'Connor about her life's journey, her love of song and her relationship with her voice. She says singing is her life. 'I couldn't be me if I wasn't singing...it's the thing that keeps you hanging on...a rope is what I always think songs are and therefore singing is the same. Ropes that you can hang onto.'
Producer : Helen Shaw
Recordist : Michael Gallen.
Audio editor, Coordinator : Amy Millar.
An Athena Media production for RTÉ lyric fm(First broadcast - 13th March 2015)
Producer : Eoin O Kelly
Production Co-Ordinator : Lily Collins