Hozier
Irish singer, songwriter and guitarist Andrew Hozier-Byrne blends blues, soul and folk with songs about love, belief and the world around him.
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Overview
- Name
- Andrew Hozier-Byrne
- Home
- County Wicklow, Ireland
- Work
- Singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Breakout
- “Take Me to Church” (2013)
- First US number one single
- “Too Sweet” (2024)
Mini bio
How it started.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne grew up in County Wicklow with a blues musician father and an artist mother. He sang in a band as a teenager and taught himself guitar, drawing on the blues, jazz and soul records around him.
The breakout.
He recorded much of “Take Me to Church” in his parents’ attic. Released in 2013, it spread online and led to his self-titled debut album in 2014. The song earned a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year.
Building his own world.
Wasteland, Baby! followed in 2019 and opened at number one on the Billboard 200. For 2023’s Unreal Unearth, he drew on Dante’s Inferno to explore loss, personal upheaval and the pandemic. Its companion EP Unheard brought “Too Sweet,” his first US and UK number one single, in 2024.
Songs with other voices.
His collaborations span generations and styles, from Mavis Staples on “Nina Cried Power” to Lucy Dacus on “Bullseye,” Barbra Streisand on “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and Mumford & Sons on “Rubber Band Man.”
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2025Rubber Band ManCollaborating vocalist with Mumford & Sons
- 2025The First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceDuet vocalist with Barbra Streisand
- 2025BullseyeGuest vocalist with Lucy Dacus
- 2024Hymn to VirgilVocalist, co-writer and co-producer
- 2023Unreal UnearthSinger and songwriter
- 2019Wasteland, Baby!Singer and songwriter
Awards
Quotes
The listener always finishes the piece.Hozier, TIME
In a March 2019 interview, he discussed how listeners bring their own experiences to a song.
Trivia
- His mother is an artist, and his father is a blues musician.
- The opening tracks of Unreal Unearth reference de Selby, a character from Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman.
- He has named Tom Waits as a major influence.
- “Cherry Wine” became a charity single supporting organisations working against domestic abuse. Its video stars Saoirse Ronan.
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