Hozier

Birth Name:

Andrew Hozier-Byrne

Birth Place:

Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor

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

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