1. Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q Hewson was born on 17 August 1999 and is an Irish rock musician.
14 Facts About Elijah Hewson
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Elijah Hewson formed Inhaler in late 2012 with two friends from St Andrew's College, Dublin, with a fourth member joining later, and released the albums It Won't Always Be Like This and Cuts and Bruises as part of the band.
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Elijah Hewson's unusual name, for which his father was mocked in the press, is a result of Bono's Christianity and incorporates the names of Guggi and Quincy Jones.
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Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q Hewson was born in Dublin on 17 August 1999 to Bono, the lead singer of U2, and Ali Hewson, an activist.
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Elijah Hewson has two older sisters, Jordan Joy Hewson and Memphis Eve Sunny Day Iris Hewson, and a younger brother, John Abraham Hewson.
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Elijah Hewson was raised Catholic and lived at Temple Hill in Killiney, which his parents had moved into in the late 1980s.
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Elijah Hewson attended Dalkey School Project and St Andrew's College, Dublin.
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The band had bonded over a love of Arctic Monkeys and Nirvana, while Elijah Hewson became its lead singer when he was fourteen or fifteen after its original singer left after his vocals were found to be substandard.
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Around this time, Josh Jenkinson joined the band after Elijah Hewson played him "I Wanna Be Adored" by The Stone Roses at a party.
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In December 2017, a photograph taken by Anton Corbijn of Elijah Hewson holding hands with Sian Evans, the daughter of U2's the Edge, appeared on the cover of Songs of Experience, U2's fourteenth album.
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Elijah Hewson's parents made a point of not assisting further than necessary; in an interview with Craig McLean of the Evening Standard in January 2023, he noted that after his Airbnb was cancelled on the band's first trip to London and he asked his mother to provide a hotel, he found himself instructed to sleep "on a park bench".
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Elijah Hewson takes inspiration from grunge, having been obsessed with the genre as a child.
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Elijah Hewson's first name is a result of the Christianity of his father.
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In 2023, it was reported that Elijah Hewson was dating Grace Burns, the daughter of Christy Turlington and Edward Burns.