Grammy-nomated Irish sger-songwrer Hozier says people assume he is gay bee of his anti-Roman Catholic church anthem "Take Me To Church" and the anti-homophobia vio which acpani .
Contents:
- HOZIER CELEBRAT IRISH VOTE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- HOZIER, PREACHG SENSUALY AND GAY RIGHTS, HS THE BIG TIME WH 'TAKE ME TO CHURCH'
- HOZIER B, GIRLIEND, GAY, AGE, NET WORTH
- SIMPLE & GAYFORWARD
- HOZIER: 'THE UPG REFERENDUM IS NOT SIMPLY A GAY RIGHTS ISSUE'
HOZIER CELEBRAT IRISH VOTE ON GAY MARRIAGE
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LONDON (Rters) - Grammy-nomated Irish sger-songwrer Hozier says people assume he is gay bee of his anti-Roman Catholic church anthem “Take Me To Church” and the anti-homophobia vio which acpani the Uned Stat the song, wrten followg a break-up wh a girliend, has reached No.
HOZIER, PREACHG SENSUALY AND GAY RIGHTS, HS THE BIG TIME WH 'TAKE ME TO CHURCH'
2, and is the same posn the Brish sgl may also w Song of the Year at the Grammys next Sunday, when Hozier - om Bray, County Wicklow, and whose full name is Andrew Hozier-Byrne - is schled to perform wh Annie “Take Me To Church” vio, which has attracted nearly 100 ln YouTube views, picts two men kissg before they are attacked by a homophobic mob. “Y, people do make that assumptn (that I am gay), which is fe, but for me I don’t thk ’s the pot, you know what I mean. He cid to ploy as the soundtrack of a btal vio about ab occurrg agast the gay muny Rsia that he hoped would have a greater impact.
The few homophobic menters, he explas, were drowned out and dismissed by thoands of supporters: “There is a society of people treatg like the ugls that is. Still he hop the song that helped him get here and the populary of the vio viewers to take homophobic discrimatn serly. “Jt to thk about the fact that there is latent homophobia or hatred, however small or however tolerated is somethg that should be regnized, ” he says.
Acrdg to Rters, the hntg, piano-driven ballad — "adopted as a prott song agast gay discrimatn Rsia" — was Spotify's top song of 2014, and reached No. He released his sophomore album, Wasteland, Baby!, 2019.
HOZIER B, GIRLIEND, GAY, AGE, NET WORTH
Given that Hozier's breakthrough song (Take Me to Church) is about sexual orientatn and stutnalized bigotry and shame, 's no surprise that the Irish sger took to Twter on Saturday to celebrate the landmark referendum on gay marriage his home 's what he told New York magaze about the song last year:"Take Me to Church is sentially about sex, but 's a tongue--cheek attack at anizatns that would … well, 's about sex and 's about humany, and obvly sex and humany are credibly tied. So the song is jt about that — 's an assertn of self, reclaimg humany back for somethg that is the most natural and me, 's not even a gay issue or a civil rights issue, 's a human rights issue, and should offend all. I didn't even have that many close LGBT iends or anythg like that, but I suppose was growg up and beg aware of how you are of a cultural landspe that is blatantly homophobic.
Where you turn around and say, Why did I grow up a homophobic place? You have to regnize yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge .
SIMPLE & GAYFORWARD
It picts a gay male uple timately kissg before a group of bashers attacks but album, "Hozier" The song's lyrics don't refer specifilly to gay rights, but the words prent sensualy as the path to righteons.
"Hozier, who isn't gay, cid to addrs the e the vio after wnsg what was gog on wh LGBT people Rsia as well as plac like Uganda, where homosexualy n draw a life sentence. As a straight man talkg about gay issu, Hozier echo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, who had one of last year's biggt hs wh the Grammy-nomated marriage-equaly o "Same Love. Dpe his heterosexual orientatn — the album ns rife wh os to "she" — Hozier says he don't feel prumptuo speakg for gay people.
His very first sgle Take Me To Church off his then-main project of the same name charted the overnight fame me gay allegatns. Along wh htg the headl wh his ternatnal succs stori, Hozier has also been surround by gay mors. Amassg Imprsive Net Worth While Tacklg Gay RumorsHis first-ever h - also his first mil troductn to mass - Take Me To Church embodied his Blu background to s re.
HOZIER: 'THE UPG REFERENDUM IS NOT SIMPLY A GAY RIGHTS ISSUE'
B Of Blu Legend:- Openly Gay Johnny Mathis Married? Hozier explaed to Gay Byrne why he reckons baptism is ridiculo.
HOZIER IS THE latt celebry to face off wh Gay Byrne on the topic of relign. The Bray mician, full name Andrew Hozier-Byrne, is set to appear on The Meang of Life wh Gay Byrne this week.
When the topic of baptism up, he says the whole ia is ‘absurd’, after Gay says he’s ‘cross’ about .