Dropping out of school, she accompanied the band to Dublin where they developed attention thanks to her vocals. At eighteen, Sinéad formed a band, Ton Ton Macoute, with Colm Farrelly and others in Waterford, where she was attending school. After auditioning a fifteen-year-old Sinéad, the band wrote and recorded the song, “Take My Hand.” However, due to her young age, they decided not to add her to the band. Her singing ability was easily recognizable, first taken up by Paul Byrne of the band, In Tua Nua. Early signs of her rebellious behaviour – shoplifting and skipping school – landed her at a Grianán Training Centre, a Magdalene asylum, which gave her the opportunity to develop her vocal talent but also occasioned further traumas from imposed discipline. She has recounted stories of a troubled childhood, in particular due to abuse from her mother, who she left at the age of thirteen to live with her father. She was named after Sinéad de Valera, the wife of Ireland’s president at the time, Éamon de Valera. Sinéad was born in Glenageary, a community southeast of Dublin and near the southern point where Dublin Bay meets the Irish Sea. “Monkey In Winter” \ Deception \ The Colourfield (1987) “Heroine” \ Captive Soundtrack \ The Edge
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