Brandi Carlile is currently on the road touring with her friend, and fellow vocal powerhouse, Pink as part of the Summer Carnival Tour.
During last night’s stop in Cincinnati, the pair paid tribute to the late Sinead O’Connor by performing a duet of “Nothing Compares 2 U.” The Prince-penned song helped launch the career of O’Connor, who died yesterday at the age of 56.
According to Billboard, Pink introduced the last-minute addition to her setlist by telling the crowd a story about how O’Connor helped shape her ambitions of being a pop star at a young age.
“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 ten dollars and I would make a demo tape … I would make a little cassette tape and imagine it was my demo for the record company,” she said. “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 a fan-shot video of the performance below
