Dolores O’Riordan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dolores O'Riordan
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Sep 6, 1971(1971-09-06)
Age	53
Date Of Death	2018-01-15
Birthplace	Ballybricken
Country	Ireland
Birth City	County Limerick
Horoscope	Virgo

Dolores O'Riordan Biography

Dolores O'Riordan is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on September 6, 1971 in Ballybricken, County Limerick, Ireland. Irish rocker best well-known as the lead vocalist of the group The Cranberries, whos hits include “Linger” and “Zombie.”

The Cranberries The group’s first single “Ordinary Day” was produced by BRIT Awards winner, Youth who has previously worked with Paul McCartney.

O’Riordan has been recognised as a style icon, sporting a pixie cut or buzzed hair in the 1990s, and performing barefoot, saying “it just feels comfortable and honest to pull your toes along the ground”. The New York Times mentioned that O’Riordan was responsible for a large portion of Dr. Martens boots sales in the 1990s.

In mid-1990, on a Sunday afternoon, O’Riordan and Quinn came up at the band’s rehearsal room, Noel Hogan later recalled that “Niall came up with Dolores on that Sunday and I remember she was shy, very soft-spoken. Not the Dolores that everyone grew to know. And she comes in and we’re just kind of a gang of young guys sitting around the place. It must have been very, very intimidating for her”. O’Riordan sang a couple of songs that she had written herself and she also did a Sinéad O’Connor song, “Troy”. The band was impressed and gave her a cassette with instrumentals, asking her if she could work on it. When she returned with a rough version of “Linger”, she was hired. Hogan told Rolling Stone that “the minute she sang, you know, it was like your jaw drops at her voice. Dolores was musically far superior to me, because she had been doing it all her life”. They recorded demo tapes, including Nothing Left At All, a three-track EP released on tape by local record label Xeric Records, which sold 300 copies. The owner of Xeric Studios, Pearse Gilmore, became their manager and provided the group with studio time to complete another demo tape, which he produced. It featured early versions of “Linger” and “Dreams”, which were sent to record companies in the UK. This demo gained attention from both the UK press and record industry, and sparked a bidding war between record labels. Eventually, the group signed with Island Records. The group changed their name to “The Cranberries” and released a four-track EP, Uncertain. Before the recording of the debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, O’Riordan experienced difficult touring conditions with low-income, sleeping on people’s floors and in cramped vans across Ireland and UK. Furthermore, she had to overcome her shyness at the time during the early live performances with the Cranberries, singing “with her back to the audience”, noted Hogan. Lawler recalled, “we just went up, and we had six songs. Dolores was turned to the side; Noel, Mike and I had our heads down”.

Her husband was the former Duran Duran Tour manager Don Burton from 1994 until 2014. The couple had three children: Taylor Baxter, Molly Leigh as well as Dakota Rain.

Dolores O'Riordan Net Worth

Dolores O'Riordan is one of the richest Musician from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dolores O'Riordan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a member of Laurel Hill Colaiste FCJ.

Her band and she were on stage during her participation in the Special Olympics opening ceremony on June 9, 2010.

Noel Hogan described how O’Riordan tended to “layer a lot of harmonies, a lot of falsetto stuff” as soon as she first entered the recording studio, Xeric Studios, at the beginning of 1990. O’Riordan used a Neumann U87 microphone for her vocal tracks, and especially during the recording of the debut studio album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?. In an interview with Sound On Sound, in March 2019, Hogan and record producer Stephen Street described that “spontaneity was the key”; Hogan said : “she would like to do maybe three or four takes”. Regarding backing vocals she would go through very quickly, he said: “cause she had an amazing ear for tuning”, then she ended with her highest notes. She would add additional layers of vocal inflections over the existing main vocals as she went along. In South China Morning Post, Hogan described O’Riordan’s voice during the recording of “Linger”:

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Who is Dolores O'Riordan Dating?

According to our records, Dolores O'Riordan married to Don Burton. As of December 1, 2023, Dolores O'Riordan’s is not dating anyone.

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On 18 July 1994, O’Riordan married Canadian-born Don Burton, ten years her senior, the former tour manager of Duran Duran. They met while Duran Duran and the Cranberries were on tour together. In September 1994, the Cranberries released “Zombie”, the lead single of their second album No Need To Argue. The song reached No.1 of Triple J’s Hottest 100, which was the first time a female-led band had topped the poll. By this time, within the release of the first two albums of the Cranberries with accompanying tours, O’Riordan had achieved both success and celebrity status.

Facts & Trivia

Dolores Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Dolores O'Riordan celebrates birthday on September 6 of every year.

In mid-1995, O’Riordan was one of the richest women in the UK at the age of

24. In 2006, she was one of the 10 richest women in Ireland, and was reported to be the fifth richest woman in 1999. In 2008 she was sixth on the list of the ten richest artists in Ireland, her net worth was $66 million. O’Riordan earned $5 million annually from her musical career and she purchased six luxury cars including Bentley. She had a net worth of $25 million after her divorce, at the time of her death.

Who is Dolores O Riordan's husband?

Don Burton

What really happened to Dolores O Riordan?

O’Riordan died from drowning due to alcohol intoxication in January 2018. The following year, the Cranberries released the Grammy-nominated album In the End (2019), featuring her final vocal recordings, and subsequently disbanded.

Did Dolores O'Riordan have a baby?

Dolores O’Riordan told how The Cranberries nearly broke up if it wasn’t for the birth of her son in 1995. In an interview with the late RTE broadcaster Gerry Ryan, she spoke of how she was “very fortunate with the pregnancy” of her son after she was sick in 1994.

Who inherited Dolores O Riordan's money?

Dolores O’Riordan’s family have been handed $250,000 by the rock band who released a hugely successful cover of Zombie after the Cranberries singer’s death. Bad Wolves presented the cheque to her ex-husband Don Burton, stepson Donny Jr and son Taylor after a performance in New York.

Why did Dolores and Don Burton split?

After being married for 20 years, O’Riordan and Burton split in late 2014 after the singer was involved in an air rage incident. She was later spared a criminal conviction after a judge ruled she was “mentally ill” at the time of the incident.