Andrew John Hozier-Byrne (born 17 March 1990), known mononymously as Hozier is an Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. His music primarily draws from folk, soul, and blues, often using religious and literary themes.
Meet Raine Hozier Byrne, John Byrne
Raine Hozier Byrne and John Byrne are Andrew John Hozier- Byrne’s parents. Raine Hozier Byrne is currently living and working in Wicklow and graduated in 2011 with a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts Practice.
Since leaving College, exhibitions include Hard Times, which toured from Cill Railaig Gallery to Urban Retreat Gallery in Dublin. (Where she was offered and availed of a residency) Hozier Byrnes’s work was short-listed for the Siamsa Tire Emerging Artists Awards.
The John Byrne Band knows about heartache. You can tell in their moving Celtic folk-rock, with fiddles, steel guitars, and songs about fighting through oppression, addiction, and political troubles.
Most notably and poignantly on the Philadelphia band’s new record, Shiver in the Sky, Byrne shares the sorrow and anger of his brother’s experience coming out and fighting for equality back home in Dublin, Ireland.