Secret Garden

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Fionnuala Sherry & Rolf Løvland

Secret Garden is an instrumental oriented band from Norway . Members are the Norwegian keyboardist and composer Rolf Løvland and the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry .

Career

She became known to a wider public in 1995 when she won the Eurovision Song Contest , the second for Norway after 1985, when the duo Bobbysocks was successful with La det svinge (a composition by Rolf Løvland). The group caused a stir in that their winning title Nocturne consisted of just 24 words and was otherwise performed instrumentally. A title that participated in the ESC has never contained fewer words. Nocturne also gained prominence as part of the soundtrack for the film Shrek . The group was also able to contribute songs to other films. The piece Adagio can be heard in the film 2046 . Perhaps the best-known Secret Garden song is You Raise Me Up from the album Once In A Red Moon, which has now been covered by over 100 artists and groups, including Josh Groban , Celtic Woman , Westlife and Il Divo .

Secret Garden is stylistically assigned to the area of New Age and Irish Folk . Even today, more than twenty years after its founding, the group is very successful in this music genre. The album Earthsongs took first place in the US Billboard charts in the New Age category .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NO NO
1995 Songs from a Secret Garden NO1
platinum
platinum

(39 weeks)NO
First published: April 16, 1995
1997 White stones NO6th
gold
gold

(15 weeks)NO
First published: April 15, 1997
1999 Dawn of a New Century NO10 (8 weeks)
NO
First published: April 20, 1999
2001 Once in a Red Moon NO2 (19 weeks)
NO
First published: December 27, 2001
2005 Earthsongs NO9 (10 weeks)
NO
First published: March 8, 2005
2007 Inside I'm Singing NO1 (23 weeks)
NO
First published: November 26, 2007
2011 Winter poem NO5 (8 weeks)
NO
First published: November 8, 2011
2013 Just the Two of Us NO6 (4 weeks)
NO
First published: December 27, 2013
2016 Live at Kilden NO18 (2 weeks)
NO
First published: April 1, 2016

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NO NO US US
1998 Fairytails NO18 (3 weeks)
NO 		-
First published: December 1998
1999 Highlights NO30 (2 weeks)
NO 		-
First published: January 1999
2001 Dreamcatcher - US4 (27 weeks)
US
First published: May 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: NO US
  2. ↑ Awards for music sales: NO ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )