I heard about Damien through my friend, whose sister had an Irish friend who introduced HER to Damien.
But I really discovered his music when I went to the clinic in Burma (the same one he went to) and our friends there told us about how nice he had been....and I was like "ohmygod i've heard of him, he's a great musican" and then I re-discovered his music when I came back home, and have been hooked since!