Who doesn’t love music?
Seeing an amazing musical performance always brings chills down your spine, especially when it’s as authentic and smooth as the musician in this video. This artist takes a famous Britney Spears son, makes it his own, and comes close to outdoing the original.
Everyone needs to hear this version!
Hozier is a talented musician who went viral for his unique cover of “Toxic” by Britney Spears on Instagram Live.
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Hozier, born Andrew John Hozier-Byrne, is a gifted Irish singer-songwriter, who flawlessly blends folk, blues and soul music to make elegant and powerful covers of some of music’s biggest songs.
Back in March of 2020, Hozier did an Instagram Live of Britney Spear’s only Grammy-winning song, “Toxic,” that had the internet buzzing over his silky smooth voice and acoustic skills.
As soon as Hozier went live the comments started rolling in, and he began his spine-tingling version of “Toxic.”
Hozier’s Instagram has 1.7 million followers and that infamous blue checkmark, and after you see this, you’ll know exactly why.
Right from the start, he begins showcasing his gorgeous voice as he pulls out an acoustic guitar to start playing it.
He doesn’t just start playing the chords to the song, he also uses the side of his guitar like a drum to get a steady beat to sing along to.
People in the comments immediately fell for Hozier’s voice.
Instagram users from all around the world tuned into Hozier’s Instagram Live performance, with comments of admiration rolling onto the screen.
“You turn every song into ART,” says user goopytudes.
Another user yahkubik said:
“I never knew I needed this.”
One Instagram user even suggested it was better than Britney Spears’s version.
“Brittney is fired after this,” said user lauracrimsonmusic
Hozier completely makes “Toxic” his own, putting a beautiful twist on the poppy dance song.
It’s never easy to cover a power-house vocalist like Britney Spears, but Hozier has no problem doing it.
Not only that, he makes it look easy every step of the way. He nonchalantly continues to floor people watching via Instagram Live, and they just can’t get enough of him.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Hozier takes the performance to another level.
Toward the end of the performance, Hozier shows everyone what his voice can really do and it will take your breath away.
As his friend plays the keyboard in the background, Hozier continues to strum and tap his guitar, while simultaneously singing with angelic-like vocals.
This wasn’t the only song Hozier played during this Instagram Live, it was actually an over 30-minute live stream where he took requests, in order to encourage people during the start of the pandemic.
During the Instagram Live, Hozier played several songs that were requested by the fans watching.
The video is called #TogetherAtHome and was made to support the World Health Organization and Global Citizen.
He even added a link on the description, so that people could go to Global Citizen and help do their part to stop Covid-19 from wreaking havoc.
Hundreds of thousands of people watched him live both on YouTube and Instagram, and many have since posted parts of his performance on their own pages.
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It’s always great seeing musicians with large platforms do their best to try and help those around them through their high exposure.
Hozier is one of those artists, and it doesn’t hurt that he has the voice of an angel. Be sure to check him out on YouTube or Instagram for more incredible performances.
To see his outstanding version of “Toxic,” just watch the video below!
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