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Glen Hansard, the Irish folk-rock musician and actor who fronted the band the Frames and had Oscar-winning success with the 2007 film Once, has died aged 56.
He died in a motorcycle crash in Lucan on the outskirts of Dublin, early on Wednesday morning. Without naming him, Irish police said he was treated at the scene for his injuries but died a short time later.
Hansard won the Oscar for best original song for Falling Slowly, the centrepiece of Once, which starred Hansard opposite another real-life musician, Markéta Irglová, playing two struggling musicians in Dublin who embark on a tentative romance. It was successfully adapted into a stage musical in 2011.
Hansard was also the frontman of the Frames, who released six studio albums, including 2004 Irish chart-topper Burn the Maps.
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