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But I had to ask company representatives to learn that Mosquera is playing the mother of the historical figure Benkos Biohó, a Mandinka who was enslaved in 1596, brought to what would become Colombia, and who successfully escaped to found a village of runaway slaves.

The “Mandinka” and “Nothing Compares 2 U” hitmaker was found unresponsive at her South London home on July 26 and was pronounced dead shortly after.

So when O'Connor broke through in 1987 with Mandinka, there's a reason, 36 years later, the lyric that's still roared the loudest is: "I don't know no shame, I feel no pain."

On “Mandinka,” she sings defiantly about not knowing shame or pain.

When 21-year old O’Connor came out singing “Mandinka,” she wore Public Enemy’s logo painted in her hair as a badge of solidarity with the artists who had been erased from the program.