Irish singer Hozier has been named `a titan of 2025' along with Donald Trump, Ed Sheeran and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Time magazine’s list of the most influential people.
Wicklow-born Hozier, whose full name is Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, is best known for his number one album, Unreal Unearth, and hit songs Take Me To Church and Too Sweet.
He is joined by fellow singer Ed Sheeran, and popstar Nicole Scherzinger on the 100 names on the list of "forces shaping our lives" along with French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot, and tech billionaire Elon Musk.
The Time100 index also includes British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, along with US actress Scarlett Johansson, American rapper Snoop Dogg, The Substance star and Oscar-nominee Demi Moore and two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody, who took awards season by storm with his immigration movie The Brutalist.
Hozier was honoured on the list with an article by Grammy-nominated singer Noah Kahan, who was brought out on stage to perform Work Song with Hozier at Iron Blossom Music Festival in Virginia in the US in 2023.
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Kahan said: "When an artist can create a sound so beautful and melancholy, so full of symbolism and truth that you feel they must be from a different time, or a better world, you can’t help but believe in magic."
Gossip Girl star Lively was named amid an ongoing legal battle with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni who Lively sued in late December, alleging harassment and a co-ordinated campaign to attack her reputation if she spoke about her treatment on the set of the romance and domestic abuse movie.
Baldoni, who denies Lively’s allegations, filed a countersuit against Lively and Deadpool actor Reynolds for defamation and extortion with a trial date set for March 2026.
US singer Scherzinger rose to fame as a member of girl group The Pussycat Dolls and won an Olivier award for best actress in a musical for her role as Norma in a West End production of Sunset Boulevard.
The US actress is set to star in the sequel to the psychological thriller A Simple Favour alongside Pitch Perfect actress Anna Kendrick.
She was added to the list by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, who called Lively "a philanthropist and a student of our country’s most intractable problems."
Previous list makers have included former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, repeal the Eighth Amendment campaigners Grainne Griffin, Ailbhe Smyth and Orla O'Connor, pop star Dua Lipa, actor Dev Patel, filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Nigerian singer-songwriter Burna Boy.
Source: Press Association
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