Cranberries biography

But not vocal data and not even the talent of the author of the songs made it fantastically famous. The soloist The Cranberries was able to enter the history of personal pain into the work and, perhaps, became the most frank voice of her generation. The main attraction today remains the fact that this is the homeland of the performer. Dolores, one of the seven children, grew up in the farmer's family.

Her relatives recalled that she "began to sing earlier than to speak." Five -year -old Dolores played the piano and dudke, studied with her father a play on the accordion, soloed in the church choir, at the age of 12 she played the organ in the local church and sang. A little rebel, participated in everything. Very musical child. The mother, whom Dolores adored, wanted her daughter to enter the university - to study at the teacher of music.

But the girl convinced her parents to let her start singing in the group - and if in a year she does not succeed, she would go to get an education. This began when she was eight, and lasted four years. The singer did not name the name of the rapist. All that is known is the person to whom she trusted, he was close to the family. According to Dolores, a meeting with that man after a few decades at the funeral of her father was a terrible test for her.

You think it's guilty. You buried deeper guilty, because you are ashamed to feel a feeling of disgust, hatred of yourself. When I became famous and my career went uphill, it became only harder. I developed anorexia, ”the star admitted. Along with food disorder, the singer suffered from depression and alcohol dependence. Then I joined Cranberries, ”she said. The musicians were looking for a soloist when a girl of one of them advised to listen to her friend.

Dolores came to a rehearsal, sang, and, as the musicians recalled for years later, from this voice they had "dropped their jaws". Dolores returned with the raw version of the Linger composition. In the future, it will become one of the main hits of The Cranberries. The team had a manager, and the recording studios began to compete with each other, who would offer more for these promising beginners.

At first, the musicians toured in Ireland and the UK on broken buses, spending the night on the floor in other people's apartments. Dolores hardly got used to Glory: the group colleagues recall that at the first concerts she was so shy that she could turn her back to the audience. The Linger single entered it reached the eighth place in a hundred Billboard. And in the fall of the same, she probably wrote the most important song in her career.

The text of the hit of Zombie talks about the events of March of the year in British Warrington: there were terrorist attacks, the responsibility for which the IRA interior IRA IRA was assumed. Two explosive devices that were hidden in garbage containers on a crowded street worked. As a result of the attack, two children were killed - boys of three and twelve years old.

More than 50 people were injured. Over the years of the conflict, from X to G., more than three and a half thousand people died on both sides. I was quite young, but I remember that I felt a devastation of thoughts about innocent children, affected by all this. She recalled that "having returned home after the party, she began to sort out the chords, and the chorus came by itself." So appeared a hit zombie.

Having recorded Zombie, Dolores considered the song a enough "catchy", but there was no idea that it was waiting for such a loud success. The album No Need to Argue, the Lid Single of which was the song, in M ​​was the best-selling European release in the world. And he opened the world of the new The Cranberries-after the lyrical Linger and Dreams, they released a truly aggressive song with a powerful social message.

The clip, shot in Belfast, showed the military with weapons, graffiti with Ira symbols on the streets, boys playing in the war. Personnel with the participation of children caused a protest of the BBC and the Irish National Television and Radio Company RTE - they broadcast the edited version of the clip. The musicians themselves were against censorship.

There were no reproaches in political engagement, Dolores said the following on this subject: it doesn’t matter, Protestants or Catholics, I am only concerned about the fact that innocent people suffer. It does not mention the names of terrorist organizations, it does not take a draw. This is a very human song. Over the past 12 years, the original Zombie clip has more than 1.2 billion views, this is one of the most viewed music videos on YouTube.

The group often performed at large charitable events. At a concert in Italy, in favor of children who suffered from hostilities in Bosnia, Princess Diana was present, and she later admitted that the living performance was touched by her to tears. The singer that evening performed Ave Maria with Luciano Pavarotti. Magazines wrote that the shoe brand Dr. Martens owes her a jump in sales - the artist constantly wore his rough boots.

However, Glory, according to Mother Dolores, was not easy for the singer: I remember we walked with her along the street in Limerica, and we were simply not given the aisle.You cannot answer people with rudeness, and they themselves behaved very politely - but it is really difficult. From the age of 20, she suffered an obsessive idea that she was being watched. Later, Dolores was diagnosed with bipolar disorder: it either fell into depression, then into the so -called hypomanic state, in which she wrote a lot of music, but could not sleep and suffered from paranoia.

Three years later, the couple had a son Taylor, in M ​​- daughter Molly, in M ​​- the youngest daughter of Dakota. The family preferred to live a secluded life outside the city, away from Hollywood party, where Dolores felt a stranger. Don Burton with children's attempt to suicide, the last truly chit album The Cranberries was released under the curtain of the millennium: in M ​​the songs of Animal Instinct and Promises, the charts confidently conquered.

The group continued to record new music and actively performing. Then the team announced that he was pausing so that participants could realize themselves in solo projects. Later, The Cranberries tried to reunite, went to tours, but concerts were constantly canceled due to health soloists. In an interview, Dolores said that show business "made her incredibly rich, but drank blood like a vampire." Despite the aggravating mental problems, she continued to work - in M ​​became a mentor at the Irish show "Voice".

In the same year, Dolores attempted suicide, which she spoke about a year later in an interview. I think I was destined to stay here for the sake of children, ”the singer admitted. And she added: everything is pretty good, but sometimes I stretch behind the bottle. And the next morning it is still worse. When I drink, I smoke a cigarette behind a cigarette. Usually I drink when bad memories come, but I cannot control them.

This is probably my biggest problem. In November, the singer was detained for hooliganism and an attack on the stewardess on board the plane flying from the United States to Ireland. During the detention, the artist tried to fight with the police and insulted them. When the news hit the media, the star’s mother explained that Dolores parted with her husband after 20 years of marriage and undergoing treatment by a psychiatrist.

The court appointed Dolores a fine, she herself openly told reporters about her mental problems and the successful, in her opinion, treatment. The singer was optimistic, talked about plans to record new songs.

In the End, the last time the artist went on stage in December GO: performed the songs of The Cranberries at the Billboard Christmas party in New York. A month later, she flew to London-to record the tracks of her own rock project D. The examination found out that the singer choked in the bath, a high content of alcohol was found in her blood. By the way, the Bad Wolves group, after the death of Dolores, released him, devoting to the untimely left star and donating a profit from the release of her three children.

The son and daughter of the singer, who at the time of her death was 20, 16 and 12 years old, remained to live in Toronto with her father. The disk was called in the end - the musicians put an end to the history of the group, explaining that they did not see the point of continuing without Dolores. Dolores was called the "voice of generation", its music - "soundtrack of youth." Journalist Elli Griffiths in a column for The Stylist wrote that in her school years "amid general insanity on Oasis, the fragile Dolores with a huge guitar and in Dr.

Martens boots seemed much more specified in the embodiment of strength and coolness." Like, for example, Shirley Manson from Garbage and Charlene Speester from Texas: the influence of these women, group leaders who were not embarrassed to scream, sweat, look ugly, showing their pain, was huge. The author of the article calls the soloist of The Cranberries "The feminist icon x, which we all needed." Lee sang in a whisper or growled, she was a bare wire.

Her voice is a natural gift, but she consciously honed skill. The decision not to try to get rid of the Irish accent was a kind of challenge, but it was such pronunciation that made cruelty to the most tender compositions of Cranberries and touching vulnerability of their hardest songs, ”wrote PitchFork. Some critics called them banal - but they were as if they were transferred from a personal diary.