Dolores O'Riordan was an Irish alternative rock singer known for her soaring
tones as lead singer of the successful band The Cranberries. When she died aged
46 in January 2018, her longtime bandmate Noel Hogan told Rolling Stone magazine
that they had been talking about making their first studio album together in six
years and hoped to go on tour in March. Authorities said that her death in a
London hotel room was unexplained but not suspicious.
Born in southwest Ireland, she grew up playing music and in 1990 tried out for a
local band called Cranberry Saw Us. After a name cha...