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Andrew Hozier-Byrne grew up in Bray, the seaside commuter town on the south Dublin coastline, the son of a blues drummer father and an artist mother whose work has appeared on every Hozier album cover. He was raised on his father's Delta blues and gospel records — Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt — and on the choral and traditional Irish music he encountered through school and the Trinity College Dublin choral programme he briefly attended before dropping out to pursue music full-time. He spent his late teens touring Europe and the United States with the Anuna choral ensemble, an experience that left the gospel and choral textures all over his subsequent solo work. Take Me to Church was written and recorded in 2013 in the attic of the family home in Wicklow, a protest song about the Catholic Church's stance on LGBTQ+ rights set against the imagery of romantic devotion; the accompanying music video, depicting a homophobic mob attack in contemporary Russia, was uploaded with little expectation and went viral first through music blogs, then through Hot Press, then through a Saturday Night Live performance in October 2014 that put the song in front of an American audience essentially overnight. The 2014 self-titled debut — Hozier — went platinum across multiple territories. Wasteland, Baby! arrived in 2019 with Nina Cried Power, Movement, Almost (Sweet Music), and Dinner & Diatribes, the last of which leaned harder into the rock and blues end of his palette and softened the singer-songwriter framing some critics had attached to him. Unreal Unearth (2023) is the most ambitious of the three records: a long, sequenced double-album cycle loosely tracking Dante's descent through the circles of Hell, written largely during pandemic isolation in Wicklow and recorded in Dublin with producer Daniel Krieger. Eat Your Young, the EP that previewed the album, became a streaming staple, and Francesca and De Selby (Part 2) became live-show anchors. In March 2024 Too Sweet — initially released only on the Unending edition — broke containment on TikTok and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first Irish solo artist since Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U to top the chart. Off-stage, Hozier has been consistently vocal on environmental, LGBTQ+, and Irish political causes — he campaigned for the 2018 repeal of Ireland's Eighth Amendment, has spoken on water rights and the climate crisis, and made headlines during what Irish press called the NoMustardGate moment when his refusal of a condiment became a one-day social-media story that he handled with characteristic dry self-deprecation.

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