Irish musician Glen Hansard, who won a Best Original Song Oscar in 2008 for the indie film Once and was lead singer for rock group The Frames, has died in a motorcycle crash at the age of 56, his management company says. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova finish performing the Oscar-nominated best original song “Falling Slowly” from the motion picture “Once” at the 80th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Credit: KJ / APHe released a number of albums under his own name and as part of duo The Swell Season with fellow Oscar winner and Once co-star Marketa Irglova. The pair’s performances in the low-budget movie shot on handheld camcorders where a street musician falls in love with a young Czech immigrant, and their Oscar-winning duet Falling Slowly, brought Hansard’s music to a wider audience. Irish police said a man in his 50s had died after a single-vehicle motorcycle collision in the west of Dublin.