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Glen James Hansard (born 21 April 1970) [1] is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician. 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 .
Best Original Song Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for "Falling Slowly" Won Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová for "If You Want Me" Nominated Irish Film and Television Awards: Best Music in Film Once: Nominated [41] Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Music: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová: Won [42] Online Film Critics Society: Best ...
The Swell Season is a folk rock duo formed by Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová. "The Swell Season" name is derived from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title. Their debut album, released in 2006, carried the same name.
It received awards including the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film. Hansard and Irglová's song "Falling Slowly" won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song (making Irglova the youngest person to win an Oscar in a non-acting category), and the soundtrack received a Grammy Award nomination.
The Swell Season is the self-titled, debut album by the Swell Season, (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová), released in 2006. The song "Falling Slowly" went on to be nominated for a Grammy and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008.
“Song of Good Hope” was originally released on Hansard’s 2012 solo album Rhythm and Repose. Although it has never appeared at a Pearl Jam show prior to tonight, Vedder played it on numerous ...
Nick Roseblade of Clash opined that "if you are into classic singer songwriters, this album is for you" and the "songs are well written with glorious instrumentation. Hansard is the owner of, well, a decent pair of pipes and whether he's singing, crooning, bellowing or whispering you feel the emotion in this voice", even if he felt the material ...
The band's ex-bassist, John Carney, is now a film director, best known for writing and directing the film Once, which stars Hansard, who wrote much of the music for the film. Hansard and Marketa Irglova won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly" from Once. On 13 May 2008 the US iTunes store released a Deluxe Edition of The ...