The Voice (song)

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The Voice
Eimear Quinn
publication May 24, 1996
length 3:05
Genre (s) Folk music , New Age
Author (s) Brendan Graham
Publisher (s) Arcade
Label CNR
Award (s) Victory at the ESC 1996

The Voice is the title of a song composed and written by Brendan Graham for Ireland's participation in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest . There it was performed by the Irish singer Eimear Quinn , who won the contest for Ireland for the fourth time in five years with this contribution.

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
The Voice (Eimear Quinn)
  UK 40 06/15/1996 (1 week)

background

Brendan Graham had previously composed the song Rock 'n' Roll Kids , the previous entry to the 1994 competition that Ireland also won. In 1996 Ireland celebrated its seventh contest victory . Graham had submitted The Voice as a proposal in a version that he had recorded with the neo-traditional Celtic band Dervish . In 1995 Graham had heard the young Eimear Quinn sing at a Christmas concert by the Anúna Choir at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin , who performed one of his compositions there in a solo performance. He was so enthusiastic about her that he asked her to perform The Voice at the finale of the "National Song Contest" at the Point Theater in Dublin, where the song emerged as the winner.

Released as a single in 1996
format Label country
CD CNR Music Germany, Netherlands, Norway
Ainm Records Ireland
CD / cassette Polydor Great Britain

content

The song begins with the words: " I hear your voice on the wind, and I hear you call out my name ... " (German: "I hear your voice in the wind, and I hear you call my name ...") The anthropologist E Moore Quinn compared the lyrics in her post 'She must have come steerage:' The Great Famine in New England Folk Memory with the memories of Irish immigrants after the great famine, as the song also tells of hunger and torment.

At first the voice seems to speak to a child and the child repeats the words he has heard:

"Listen my child", you say to me
"I am the voice of your history
Be not afraid, come follow me
Answer my call and I'll set you free."

"Hear my child," you say to me,
"I am the voice of your story.
Do not be afraid, come and follow me.
Answer my call and I will set you free."

The voice tells that it is in the wind and rain, it is the voice of hunger and pain, the voice that calls for you forever, an inner voice that, like a memory, never fades. It comes from the past and is in mourning, in the blood in the fields, in the rustling of the leaves ... The voice tries to convey that the wounds only heal when you have found your own peace. “ I am the voice of the future, bring me your peace […] and my wounds, they will heal. "(German:" I am the voice of the future, bring me your peace [...] and my wounds, they will heal. ")

reception

The song has been covered in several albums or in performances by the group Celtic Woman since 2007 , for example in A New Journey (2007, Lisa Kelly ), The Greatest Journey - Essential Collection (2008, Lisa Kelly, Máiréad Nesbitt ) or Emerald - Musical Gems (2014, Susan McFadden , Máiréad Nesbitt).

literature

  • Fred Bronson: Eurovision Song Contest topped by Irish 'Voice'. In: Billboard. 108, No. 22, June 1, 1996 ISSN  0006-2510 , pp. 6 and 103, ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irving Wolther: "Clash of Cultures". The Eurovision Song Contest as a means of national and cultural representation. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3357-4 , p. 105, ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ 1996 Eurovision Song Contest Norway. on eurovision.de.
  3. ↑ Eimear Quinn - The Voice on officialcharts.com
  4. ↑ Ireland: Eimear Quinn. on eurovision.de
  5. ↑ Eimear Quinn - The Voice. on discogs.com
  6. ↑ 'She must have come steerage:' The Great Famine in New England Folk Memory. In: An Gorta Mór, David A. Valone: Relief, Representation and Remembrance: Ireland's Great Hunger. Volume II, University Press of America, Lenham 2010, ISBN 978-0-7618-4899-8 , pp. 161 f. and 176 f. ( books.google.de )
predecessor Office successor
Nocturne
( Secret Garden )		 Winner song of the Eurovision Song Contest
1996 		Love Shine a Light
( Katrina and the Waves )