Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who won an Academy Award for the song "Falling Slowly" and fronted the rock band the Frames for more than three decades, died early Wednesday in a motorcycle crash near his native Dublin. Born and raised in Dublin, Hansard left school at 13 to begin busking on the streets of the Irish capital before forming the Frames in 1990. The band became a fixture of the Irish rock scene over more than three decades, with Hansard as its frontman and primary songwriter throughout. Hansard later recalled that Murphy had reservations about some of the songs he had written for the project, a detail Hansard shared with characteristic humor in later interviews about the film's origins. Hansard is survived by a young son, who was 3 years old at the time of his father's death.