told<\/a> The Times in 2025.<\/p>\n\u201cOnce\u201d depicts the personal and creative relationship between an Irish street musician and a Czech pianist with whom he falls in love; the low-budget movie was later adapted into a Broadway show that won a Tony Award for best musical.<\/p>\n
At the Oscars in 2008, \u201cFalling Slowly\u201d beat three songs from the Disney musical \u201cEnchanted\u201d for the original song prize. \u201cWhat are we doing here? This is mad,\u201d Hansard said from the stage as he and Irglov\u00e1 accepted the award. \u201cWe never thought we\u2019d ever come into a room like this and be in front of you people.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Swell Season released a second album, \u201cStrict Joy,\u201d in 2009 and toured intermittently in the following years; they reconvened last year for a third LP, \u201cForward,\u201d which they recorded at a studio in Iceland overseen by Irglov\u00e1\u2019s husband. <\/p>\n
Hansard is survived by his wife, the Finnish poet Maire Saaritsa, and their 4-year-old son, Christy, whom he described in a song as a \u201cfull-blown solid-gold miracle.\u201d In the 2025 Times interview, the once-hard-drinking Hansard said that becoming a father had \u201cmade me think much more about staying alive\u201d; he\u2019d quit alcohol, he said, and changed his breakfast order. \u201cI choose porridge over the bacon and eggs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Swell Season and the Frames, Hansard recorded several solo albums, including 2015\u2019s \u201cDidn\u2019t He Ramble,\u201d which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Last month, he released a career-spanning live record that he said captured what he loved most about music.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always been more comfortable onstage than in a studio,\u201d he said in comments<\/a> published on his website. \u201cI love making records. I love the process. But the song lives before an audience. A song needs witnesses. It\u2019s where I feel like I can really grab hold of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Hansard, the Irish singer and songwriter best known for starring in the hit 2007 film \u201cOnce\u201d \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[166680,23983,11416,77855,166675,166674,166673,49811,166679,166676,166677,48,52,51,47,50,49,19836,166678,7756,166681],"class_list":["post-416657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-active-garda-investigation","tag-album","tag-band","tag-duo","tag-frames","tag-glen-hansard","tag-hansard","tag-ireland","tag-irglova","tag-irish-singer-songwriter","tag-irish-times","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-motorcycle-crash","tag-oscar-win","tag-son","tag-swell-season-moniker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}