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Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970)[1] is an Irish singer-songwriter. Since 1990, he has been the frontman of the Irish rock band The Frames, with whom he has released six studio albums, four of which have charted in the top ten of the Irish Album Charts. In the 2000s, he was one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season before releasing his debut solo album, Rhythm and Repose, in 2012. His 2015 second album Didn't He Ramble was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.

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Glen Hansard
Hansard in 2015
Background information
Born	(1970-04-21) 21 April 1970 (age 52) Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland
Genres	Folk rock folk rock alternative rock indie folk indie rock
Occupation(s)	Musician songwriter actor
Instrument(s)	Vocals guitar piano mandolin
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Plateau Records Overcoat Recordings Island
Website	www.glenhansardmusic.com

Primarily a musician, he has also acted and written music for film; he appeared in the BAFTA-winning film The Commitments (1991) and, notably, starred in the Irish music drama Once (2007) which earned him a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly" with co-writer and co-star Markéta Irglová. The film was later adapted into an award-winning-musical theatre production.

Career

Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets.[2] He formed his own band The Frames in 1990, and the group have been gigging regularly in Ireland since. Hansard came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker film The Commitments. He has often stated that he regretted taking the role because he felt it distracted him from his music career. In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ.[3]

On 22 April 2006, he released his first album without The Frames, The Swell Season, on Overcoat Recordings in collaboration with Czech singer and multi-instrumentalist Markéta Irglová, Marja Tuhkanen from Finland on violin and viola, and Bertrand Galen from France on cello. Hansard also spent part of 2006 in front of the cameras for the music-infused Irish film Once, in which Hansard plays a Dublin busker, and Irglová an immigrant street vendor. The film had its United States premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and received the Festival's World Cinema Audience Award. During the promotional tour, he and Irglová began dating.[4] Said Hansard about his relationship with Irglova: "I had been falling in love with her for a long time, but I kept telling myself she's just a kid".[5]

Hansard had recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" for the film I'm Not There in 2007. In 2009, Hansard said that he and Irglova were no longer romantically linked, and that they are now "good friends".[6]

Aside from his projects with The Frames and Irglová, Hansard also took part as a member of the band on the 2006 Oxfam charity album, The Cake Sale. Hansard has recorded several cover songs, both alone and with band member Colm Mac Con Iomaire, for the Today FM discs Even Better than the Real Thing. Songs that he has recorded include Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1 and Britney Spears' "Everytime" on Vol. 2.^{[citation needed]}

He voiced a role on an episode ("In the Name of the Grandfather") on The Simpsons as an Irish busker.[7] A new album of original songs recorded as The Swell Season with Markéta Irglová and entitled Strict Joy was released on 27 October 2009 on the ANTI- record label.[8]

In the summer of 2011, he joined Eddie Vedder on his American solo tour in support of Vedder's solo album, Ukulele Songs. He played a solo concert at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Guitar Heroes exhibit in New York City in May 2011.[9] and on Cape Cod at the Cape Cinema on 17 June.[10]

In September 2011, he played at Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary Festival PJ20 at the Alpine Valley Theatre outside of East Troy, Wisconsin. Hansard plays several guitars, including a very recognisable battered Takamine NP15 acoustic guitar (even sporting a large hole), which he calls "The Horse".[11]

In a November 2011 interview[12] in The Huffington Post with Irglova, it was revealed that Hansard was preparing a solo album and that there was a very possible third release from The Swell Season. This solo album was later revealed to be titled Rhythm and Repose.[13]

American Songwriter included Hansard's "Love Don't Leave Me Waiting" on its The Muse July Sampler.[14] Another song of his featured in a film soundtrack is This Gift, which appears in The Odd Life of Timothy Green.[15]

Hansard sang the song "Take the Heartland" on the soundtrack for the 2012 film The Hunger Games. Another song he wrote, "Come Away to the Water", is featured on the soundtrack, but is covered by Maroon 5 and Rozzi Crane. Hansard can be found singing "Come Away to the Water" on the deluxe edition of his first solo album Rhythm and Repose. He guest-starred in an episode of the TV series, Parenthood, playing himself. In the episode, "Trouble in Candyland", he performed "High Hope", a single from his solo debut album Rhythm and Repose.[16] In 2015, Hansard and Lisa Hannigan recorded a song, "On Love", for the soundtrack for the 2014 film Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.[17] Hansard sang Coyote at the Joni Mitchell 75th birthday concert Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration in Los Angeles in December 2018.

Influences

Hansard has remarked about his musical influences: "In my house, when I was a kid, there was the holy trinity, which was Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, and Bob Dylan with Bob sitting centre."[18] Hansard and The Frames toured as the support act for Bob Dylan in Australia and New Zealand in August 2007 and Hansard often performs Van Morrison's songs in concert. Two such songs include "Into the Mystic", and "And the Healing Has Begun" which were included on the collector's edition of the soundtrack for the film Once.

Hansard is a devotee of Krishna and performed for the 80th birthday of Swami Prabhupada in London, staying at a manor donated to the Hare Krishna movement by The Beatles' George Harrison, who was a Hare Krishna devotee.[19] In July 2013, he sang with Bruce Springsteen at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, Ireland. In July 2015, he performed "Raglan Road" with Ed Sheeran in Croke Park, Dublin.^{[citation needed]}

Other

In 2008, Hansard took a four-week filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy.[20]

In 2016, Hansard was a prominent member of the Home Sweet Home Group, a coalition of activists and homeless.[21] The group broke into Apollo House in Dublin and illegally occupied it.[22] They eventually had to vacate the premises due to trespassing.[23]

Awards and nominations

Selected awards

Year	Ceremony	Category	Work	Result	Notes
2007	80th Academy Awards	Best Original Song	"Falling Slowly" from Once	Won	With Markéta Irglová
	4th Irish Film & Television Awards	Best Music in Film	Once	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Satellite Awards	"If You Want Me" from Once	Nominated
2008	50th Grammy Awards	Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	Once	Nominated
		Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	"Falling Slowly" from Once	Nominated
2013	55th Grammy Awards	Best Musical Theater Album	Once (musical)	Won
2016	58th Grammy Awards	Best Folk Album	Didn't He Ramble	Nominated
2021	12th Hollywood Music in Media Awards	Original Song – Onscreen Performance	"Whenever I Fall" from Cyrano	Nominated	With Sam Amidon & Scott Folan
		Original Song – Feature Film	"My Father's Daughter" from Flag Day	Nominated	With Eddie Vedder
2022	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television		Nominated

Discography

Solo

Albums

Title	Details	Peak chart positions								Sales
		IRE [24]	AUT [25]	BEL [26]	GER [27]	NLD [28]	SWI [29]	UK [30]	US [31]
Rhythm and Repose	Release date: 19 June 2012 Label: Anti-	3	21	111	71	37	40	133	21	US: 77,000[32]
Didn't He Ramble	Release date: 18 September 2015 Label: Anti-	3	24	42	47	14	31	144	92
Between Two Shores	Release date: 19 January 2018[33] Label: Anti-	20	10	18	16	30	19	—	—
This Wild Willing	Release date: 12 April 2019 Label: Anti-	23	47	45	27	30	27	—	—

Singles and EPs

• This Gift (2012) (promo)
• High Hope (2012) (promo)
• Bird of Sorrow (2012) (promo)
• Love Don't Leave Me Waiting (2012) (promo)
• Drive All Night EP (November 2013)
• It Was Triumph We Once Proposed...Songs of Jason Molina EP (17 March 2015)
• Winning Streak (30 June 2015)
• Lowly Deserter (November 2015) – (Sky Stone & Records)
• A Season on the Line EP (February 2016)
• Cold Comfort (June 2020)

The Frames

Studio albums

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
		IRE [34]	BEL [35]	NLD [36]	US Heat [37]
Another Love Song	Release date: 1991 Label: Island Records	77	—	—	—
Fitzcarraldo	Release date: November 1995 Re-release : 29 October 1996 Label: ZTT Records	26	—	—	—
Dance the Devil	Release date: 25 June 1999 Label: ZTT Records	28	—	—	—
For the Birds	Release date: 2 April 2001 Label: Plateau Records	6	—	—	—
Burn the Maps	Release date: 17 September 2004 Label: Plateau Records	1	85	54	—
The Cost	Release date: 20 September 2006 Label: Plateau, ANTI-	2	—	—	46
Longitude[38]	Release date: 10 July 2015 Label: Plateau, ANTI-	7	130	—	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title	Details	Peak chart positions
		IRE[34]
Breadcrumb Trail	Release date: June 2002 Label: Plateau Records	—
Set List	Release date: 16 May 2003 Label: Plateau Records	1

Singles and EPs

• "The Dancer" (1991)
• "Realisation Music" (1992) (promo)
• "Masquerade" (1992)
• Turn on Your Record Player EP (1992)
• "Picture of Love" (1993)
• Angel at My Table EP (1994) (promo)
• "Revelate" (1996)
• "Monument" (1996)
• I Am the Magic Hand EP (15 February 1999)
• "Pavement Tune" (1999)
• Rent Day Blues EP (December 1999)
• Come on Up to the House (1999) (compilation featuring "Star Star" by The Frames)
• "Lay Me Down" (2001)
• "Headlong" (2002)
• The Roads Outgrown EP (2003)
• "Fake" (12 September 2003)
• "Finally" (20 August 2004)
• "Sideways Down" (28 January 2005)
• "Happy" (Radio Single Only; 2005)
• "Sad Songs" (2006)
• "Falling Slowly"/"No More I Love Yous" (2006; promo)

The Swell season

Albums

• The Swell Season (2006)
• Once Soundtrack (2007)
• Strict Joy (2009)

Singles and EPs

• "When Your Mind's Made Up" (2008) (promo)
• "Low Rising" (2009) (promo)

Films and television

• The Commitments (1991)
• Once (2007)
• Austin City Limits (2008)
• The Simpsons (2009 episode: "In the Name of the Grandfather")[39]
• Ballymun Lullaby (2011; documentary)
• The Swell Season (2011)
• Play (2011)
• Parenthood (2010 TV series) (2012 episode: "Trouble in Candyland")[40]
• In the Deep Shade (2013 documentary, with the Irish band The Frames)
• The Last Man on Earth (TV series) (2016 episode "Falling Slowly")
• Cyrano (2021, Guard #1)

See also

• The Stars Are Underground – 24-minute film documenting the underground music scene in Dublin (1996)

References

External links

• Official Website
• Glen Hansard at IMDb
• Profile, theswellseason.com
• Lyrics, IrishMusicCentral.com
• "Excreting Songs" (Hansard interview)
• It's Just A Band (2005).

На других языках

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[de] Glen Hansard

Glen Hansard (* 21. April 1970 in Dublin) ist ein irischer Sänger, Gitarrist und Schauspieler.

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- [en] Glen Hansard

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[es] Glen Hansard

Glen James Hansard (21 de abril de 1970, Dublín, Irlanda) conocido como Glen Hansard, es un cantante, guitarrista y compositor irlandés miembro del grupo de música The Frames y el dúo The Swell Season junto a Markéta Irglová. También ha trabajado ocasionalmente como actor y presentador de televisión. Es además ganador del premio Óscar a Mejor canción original.

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[ru] Хансард, Глен

Глен Хансард (англ. Glen Hansard; род. 21 апреля 1970 в Дублине, Ирландия)[2] — основной композитор и вокалист/гитарист ирландской рок-группы The Frames. Он также известен по ролям в фильмах Однажды и Группа «Коммитментс». Хансард является соавтором песни «Falling Slowly», которая прозвучала в Однажды. «Falling Slowly» принесла Хансарду премию «Оскар» за лучшую песню к фильму, также в 2007—2008 он удостоился не менее 10 наград и номинаций[3].

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