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Hozier in 2015, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Andrew John Hozier-Byrne
Place of Birth: Newcastle, County Wicklow, Ireland
Date of Birth: 17 March, 1990
Ethnicity: Irish
Hozier is an Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. His songs include “Take Me to Church,” “From Eden,” “Sedated,” “Someone New,” “Nina Cried Power,” “Almost (Sweet Music),” “Blood Upon the Snow,” originally for the video game God of War: Ragnarök ; “Eat Your Young,” and “Too Sweet.” He often draws on folk, soul, and blues, and uses religious, literary, political, and social themes.
Hozier is the son of Raine Hozier, an artist, and John Byrne, a banker and blues and jazz drummer. Hozier has the last words of Irish poet Seamus Heaney tattooed on his arm, “noli timere,” Latin for “don’t be afraid.”
Hozier was raised Quaker.