{"id":44740,"date":"2018-01-16T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44740"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:23:35","slug":"cranberries-lead-singer-dolores-oriordan-dies-at-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44740","title":{"rendered":"Cranberries lead singer Dolores O&#8217;Riordan dies at 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DUBLIN Jan 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Dolores O\u2018Riordan \u2014 the lead singer of rock group The Cranberries \u2014 died suddenly on Monday at the age of 46 during a trip to London for a recording session, her publicist said.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish group \u2014 which combined indie guitar with O\u2018Riordan\u2019s distinctive Irish lilt and yoddle\u00a0\u2014 shot to fame with hits like \u201cLinger\u201d and \u201cZombie\u201d to become one of the most successful bands of the 1990s, selling over 40 million records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIrish and international singer Dolores O\u2019Riordan has died suddenly in London today,\u201d publicist Lindsey Holmes said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily members are devastated to hear the breaking news and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,\u201d Holmes said.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2018Riordan \u2014 who had three children \u2014 was recently divorced.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes said O\u2019Riordan died after travelling to London for a short recording session, but she declined to comment on the possible cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2018Riordan struggled at times with fame after the spectacular success of the Cranberries 1993 debut album\u00a0<em>Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can\u2019t We?<\/em>, cutting short a tour in 1996, citing exhaustion and disillusionment.<\/p>\n<p>She left the Cranberries in 2003 and recorded two solo albums, before the band reformed in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, O\u2018Riordan pleaded guilty to headbutting and spitting at an Irish police officer following an alleged air rage incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Cranberries \u2014 the second bestselling Irish band after U2 \u2014 last year cancelled a number of concerts in North American and Europe, saying O\u2018Riordan was suffering from back problems.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Irish President Michael D. Higgins described O\u2018Riordan\u2019s death as a big loss to Irish music, describing her influence as \u201cimmense\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN Jan 16 (TNS): Dolores O\u2018Riordan \u2014 the lead singer of rock group The Cranberries \u2014 died suddenly on Monday at the age of 46 during a trip to London for a recording session, her publicist said. The Irish group \u2014 which combined indie guitar with O\u2018Riordan\u2019s distinctive Irish lilt and yoddle\u00a0\u2014 shot to fame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1770],"tags":[1771],"class_list":["post-44740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44742,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44740\/revisions\/44742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}