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Glen Hansard Dies

Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard is killed in a motorcycle crash in Dublin.

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Updated Jul 29, 8:14pm ET

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Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Falling Slowly” from Once, died at 56 after a single-vehicle motorcycle crash on the western outskirts of Dublin early Wednesday. Irish police said the crash happened shortly before 4:30 a.m. in the Lucan area and appealed for witnesses. Hansard fronted The Frames from 1990, later recorded with Markéta Irglová as The Swell Season, and starred in Once, the Dublin film that brought him international recognition. His management said his family was deeply shocked and heartbroken.

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