The property of the late Sinéad O’Connor has denounced Donald Trump’s use of the singer-songwriter’s efficiency of “Nothing Compares 2 U” at his latest marketing campaign rallies.

In an announcement to Selection, O’Connor’s property and label Chrysalis Data demanded that Trump stop enjoying the track instantly.

“All through her life, it’s well-known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce ethical code outlined by honesty, kindness, equity and decency in direction of her fellow human beings. It was with outrage due to this fact that we realized that Donald Trump has been utilizing her iconic efficiency of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ at his political rallies,” the assertion reads. “It’s no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, harm and insulted to have her work misrepresented on this approach by somebody who she herself known as a ‘biblical satan.’ Because the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates desist from utilizing her music instantly.”

O’Connor died on July 26, 2023 in London on the age of 56. In January, the Southwark Coroners Court docket decided that she died of pure causes.

O’Connor broke by internationally with the discharge of her second album, “I Do Not Need What I Haven’t Received,” in 1990. The file included her association of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a track initially written by Prince and launched underneath his aspect undertaking the Household. Her rendition of the track reached No. 1 in a number of international locations, together with Eire, the place it stayed on the prime of the charts for 11 weeks. The track earned a Grammy nomination for file of the yr and finest feminine vocal rock efficiency. “I Do Not Need What I Haven’t Received” gained the Grammy for finest different music efficiency.

Trump, who served because the forty fifth president of america from 2017 to 2021, is operating for a second time period regardless of having been impeached twice and indicted in a number of states on felony counts together with falsifying enterprise information, mishandling categorized paperwork, conspiracy and racketeering. O’Connor joins a protracted listing of musicians who has spoken out towards Trump utilizing their music at rallies, together with Johnny Marr of the Smiths, who in January took to X to specific his disappointment over Trump enjoying “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Need.”

“I by no means in 1,000,000 years would’ve thought this might come to go,” Marr wrote. “Think about this shit shut proper down proper now.”

Different artists who’ve refuted Trump’s use of their songs embody Adele, Aerosmith, the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Weapons n’ Roses, Leonard Cohen, Linkin Park, Neil Younger, Nickelback, Ozzy Osbourne, Panic! on the Disco, Pharrell Williams, Phil Collins, Prince, Queen, R.E.M., Rihanna, the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Village Individuals and the White Stripes.