Photo credit:  Rogers Sports & Media image, P!nk performing Toronto, Ontario, Rogers Centre July 24th, 2023 

 

P!NK along with Brandi Carlile paid a special tribute to Sinead O’Connor during her “Summer Carnival” tour on Wednesday night and performed a touching cover of Sinead’s hit song, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Before the performance P!NK shared a story about how O’Connor made an impact on her as a teenager.

“When I was a little girl, my mom grew up in Atlantic City and I used to go down to the Ocean City Boardwalk with my 10 dollars and I would make a demo tape,” she told the crowd at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park (via Billboard). “I would make a little cassette tape and imagine it was my demo for the record company. And it would always be either ‘Greatest Love of All’ by Whitney Houston or ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ by Sinead O’Connor. So in honor of Sinead, and in honor of my very, very talented friend Brandi Carlile I asked her if she would come out here and sing this song with me.”

Watch the emotional performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U.”