Glen Hansard began his career in the music industry as a street busker.
The road to stardom for Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard and his band the Frames began when he dropped out of school in the mid-1980s.
“Dermot reached out to me and said it would mean a lot to him if the Frames would be willing to do it,” Hansard said. How to mix the life of a rock and roller with life generally is a harder trick, but Hansard said he is working on that as well. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t involve dying before one gets old.
Hansard’s years – and it was not just a few – as a busker, and then his years with the Frames, were just two of what now, in retrospect, can be seen as a bucketful of musical lifetimes in his varied career.
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