Songs from a Secret Garden : Secret Garden

Background : Songs from a Secret Garden

Songs from a Secret Garden is the first album by Secret Garden. It includes the winner song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, Nocturne.

The album achieved platinum awards in Norway and South Korea. It stayed on the Billboard New Age chart for 101 weeks

Fionnuala Sherry and Rolf Løvland

Fionnuala Sherry

Fionnuala Sherry is an Irish violinist. She makes up the female part of the celtic new age duo Secret Garden, which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the predominantly instrumental piece Nocturne.
Secret Garden is an award winning Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also understood by some as Neo-classical music.

Rolf Løvland

Rolf Løvland (born 19 April 1955, Kristiansand) is a Norwegian composer. Together with Fionnuala Sherry, he formed the celtic group Secret Garden, where he played as the composer/producer/keyboardist. He began composing at an early age (he formed a band at the age of nine) and grew up studying at the Kristiansand Music Conservatory, later receiving his Masters degree from the Norwegian Institute of Music in Oslo. He is maybe most recognised for composing the song You Raise Me Up, which has been covered more than 125 times.
Løvland has previously won the Eurovision Song Contest twice, composing the songs La Det Swinge in 1985 and Nocturne in 1995 alongside Secret Garden, resulting in Norway's only titles.
Løvland was a foreign exchange student in Shawnee, Oklahoma USA for a year while in high school.

It features the Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer/pianist Rolf Løvland. Secret Garden has sold over 3 million albums and won the Eurovision Song Contest for Norway's second time in 1995 with the composition Nocturne. It was the first and only time to date that a predominantly instrumental piece has won the Eurovision Song Contest, although a few Norwegian language lyrics, written by screenwriter Petter Skavlan, were included to ensure that the entry adhered to the contest's rules. Norwegian singer Gunnhild Tvinnereim sang the song in the Eurovision Song Contest, but is actually not a member of the group. Ten years earlier Rolf Løvland also co-wrote the song "La det swinge" (Let it swing) that secured Norway its first Eurovision Song Contest victory in 1985.

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