Sinead O’Connor dons a Black Lives Matter t-shirt while filming a new music video in Peckham

He has been working on new songs after the coronavirus lockdown.

And Sinead O’Connor was spotted filming a music video for one of her latest songs as she hit the streets of Peckham, London, on Friday of last week.

The 53-year-old Irish singer wore a T-shirt that had the Black Lives Matter logo on the front and was walking through the streets with a sign depicting Mahalia Jackson.

Sinead, who has also gone by the name Shuhada Sadaqat since he converted to Islam, paired his shirt with black faux fur pants and sturdy boots, while being complemented by a feather necklace.

The singer wore her gray locks in her signature haircut style as she walked the streets of Peckham while working with director Don Letts.

Mahalia Jackson was a gospel singer who helped inspire Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech, was an integral part of the Civil Rights Movement, and a good friend of the Christian minister.

On Wednesday, Sinead appeared on The Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 and detailed her decision to train to be a health care assistant.

Of his reasoning, he explained: ‘That’s something I wanted to do for years, it’s not because of Covid, it’s not that I rush to the front line.

“The area I want to work on ultimately is palliative care. September 28, that’s it, head down, it’s only one year … that’s how I’m making the most of the time

“I had a whole year of shows booked … that’s how I’m making use of the fact that I’m unemployed for the year.”

Sinead added that being a health care assistant was something she wanted to ‘do since [she] she was a girl ‘when she expressed an interest in receiving palliative care.

“ A big boost for me was that one of my best friends in the world died about five years ago.

He asked me one night if I would sleep in bed with him when he found out that he was dying and I told him I would, but in the end, he was too scared and I didn’t.

“Since then I felt that I would never leave anyone alone and I disappointed my friend very much. I didn’t go to bed with him because I was so afraid … of death and death and his death. ‘

Sinead’s departure comes after she opened up about her mental illness, insisting she “ wouldn’t be here ” if she didn’t come out publicly.

The Dublin-born star sparked widespread concern in August 2017 when she posted a tearful 12-minute video on her Facebook page in which she stated that she had wanted to commit suicide for two years.

A subsequent post on the page assured fans that the then 50-year-old was not suicidal, but the singer has made it known that she has been in the past.

Speaking on Irish broadcaster RTE’s Tommy Tiernan last year, the Nothing Compares 2 U singer shared: ‘I was really in serious danger of dying.’

Sinéad told the comic that a combination of factors left her feeling ‘a bit mental’, without specifying whether she was speaking about the 2017 video.

“There was shit in my life that made me a little mental in the middle of which I had a radical hysterectomy that would drive anyone crazy,” he said.

Sinead added: ‘I can laugh at that now, but at the time it was terrible. I don’t enjoy suffering and it’s not like I’m one of those artists who feels like I can’t be creative unless I’m suffering.

‘In fact I’m the opposite and it’s over, thank God. And the best thing about going crazy is that you are sane again. So it’s over. There is no point in looking back or behind, if you recover, you keep looking forward.

“If I hadn’t done what I did, I wouldn’t be sitting here talking now, I really wouldn’t.”