Dolores O'Riordan

ICE QUEEN: Dolores O'Riordan
BAND: The Cranberries
ORIGIN: Limerick, Ireland
GENRE: Alternative pop
ACCOMPLICES: Noel Hogan (guitars), Mike Hogan (bass), Fergal Lawler (drums)
DISCOGRAPHY: "Everybody Else Is Doin' It, So Why Can't We?" (1993), "No Need To Argue" (1994), "To The Faithful Departed" (1996), "Bury The Hatchet" (1999), "Wake Up And Smell The Coffee" (2001)
INFLUENCES: Sinéad O'Connor, The Smiths, U2

IMHO: Like Corin Tucker from Sleater-Kinney, Dolores O'Riordan has a very unique voice that people either love or hate. If we take "Ode to my family" as an example, she can sound really sweet, like she does at the beginning, and then she gets into Irish yodeling until she blasts out with her own interpretation of phonetics and her icy screams... I guess "Zombie" makes a great example too. All in all, I think the Cranberries have made such great songs, and when I saw them live in Barcelona too many years ago I had a blast and so did the rest of the audience with Dolores' energy and her quirky dance moves (and her flawless live singing).

FAVORITE SONG: "Daffodil's Lament", "Dreaming My Dreams", "Pretty", "Dreams", "Ridiculous Thoughts", etc...
FAVORITE ALBUM: "No Need To Argue"

SEEN THEM LIVE: Pavelló Olímpic de la Vall d'Hebrón, Barcelona. It was last decade, but I don't remember when... I loved every minute of it.

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