Hozier Biography

Fast Facts

• Was selected by Spotify as one of their Spotlight Artists to Watch in 2014 and regularly appeared on the streaming service's Most Viral charts
• Take Me to Church hit No․ 1 on Hype Machine's Most Popular chart
• Attended Trinity College Dublin, where he studied music and was a member of the Trinity Orchestra, but dropped out to record demos for Universal Music
• The son of an Irish blues musician, he joined his first band at the age of 15 and sang with the Irish choral group Anuna from 2009 to 2012
• Sang and played all the instruments on his four-track debut EP, with the addition of Fiachra Kinder on drums and Rob Kirwan mixing the tracks in Dublin
• Quote: "I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything․ You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment ․․․ everything you believed about yourself gone․"
• Quote: "[on "Take Me to Church"] "I always stand by the song and the point that the video made, so it's never a chore․ The song is about loving somebody, and the video is about people who would undermine what it is to love somebody․""
• Indie rock singer-songwriter whose debut single "Take Me to Church" became a hit after it went viral on YouTube