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Garden is the award winning Irish-Norwegian duo performing
New Age / Cross-Over Pop and Classical music and have
sold over 4.5 million albums to date. The duo features
Irish violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer
and pianist Rolf Løvland. Secret Garden won the
Eurovision Song contest in 1995 with the composition “Nocturne”
and this event spearheaded the success of their first
album “Songs from a Secret Garden”. This alone
sold a million copies around the world going platinum
in Norway and Korea, gold in Ireland, Hong Kong and New
Zealand and spending two years in the Billboard New Age
charts in 1996 and 1997. Barbara Streisand adapted "Heartstrings"
from this album as the song "I've Dreamed of You"
on her “A Love Like Ours” album.
The album “White Stones”
followed in 1997, also making the top ten on Billboard
New Age charts. “Dawn of a New Century”
followed in 1999, “Once In a Red Moon” in
2002, “Earthsongs” in 2005. In 2007 they
released “Inside I’m Singing” that
went on to become the top selling album in Norway in
2007 resulting in a Quadruple Platinum Trophy –
(released in Scandinavia only at the time of this writing).
Their most famous song "You
Raise Me Up” has been recorded by more than a
hundred other artists including Josh Groban, Westlife,
Il Divo, Jonny Logan, Brian Kennedy, Russel Watson,
Becky Taylor & Celtic Woman.
Secret Garden has throughout the
years toured extensively in China, Korea, Japan, Australia,
USA, Ireland and Norway. 2009 will be reserved for work
on the international release of "Inside I'm Singing".
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