A lifetime of musicprinted at 13:07 BST
Image supply, Getty ImagesHansard performing in London earlier this yr
Hansard’s life was one of music, from first selecting up a guitar as a youngster, proper till the ultimate hours of his life, when he was performing in a conventional music session.
His profession spanned greater than three many years, together with successful the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008 with Markéta Irglová, which featured within the low-budget musical romance movie Once.
He and Irglová launched three albums as The Swell Season, whereas Hansard additionally encountered success as a solo artist with 2016 album Didn’t He Ramble being nominated for a Grammy in 2016.
He fashioned The Frames one yr earlier than The Commitments, happening to document six studio albums together with Dance The Devil, For The Birds and Irish chart topper Burn The Maps.
