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"You Raise Me Up" is a song composed by Rolf Løvland and written by Brendan Graham. It was first recorded by Secret Garden, in collaboration with Brian Kennedy.
Brendan Graham (born 12 February 1945) [1] is an Irish songwriter and novelist. Among songs he has written are "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" (1994) and "The Voice" (1996), both of which won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland in their respective years, and "You Raise Me Up" [2] (2002), which was an international hit recorded by various artists, including Josh Groban.
You Raise Me Up: The Best of Aled Jones is a greatest hits album by Welsh singer Aled Jones, released on 27 November 2006. In addition to many of Jones' best-known ...
Secret Garden's most famous song "You Raise Me Up", originally performed by Johnny Logan and Brian Kennedy, has been recorded by more than a hundred other artists including Josh Groban, Russell Watson, Westlife, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Becky Taylor, Celtic Woman, Lena Park, Robert Tremlett, Il Divo, Rhydian, and Sergio Dalma.
Guest performers on the second track, "You Raise Me Up", include Brian Kennedy (vocal), Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes and tin whistle), the London Community Gospel Choir, and Irish choral group Anúna. The vocalist on track 4, "Greenwaves", is Karen Matheson, lead singer of Scottish band Capercaillie. Julian Lloyd Webber plays cello on track 6 ...
Groban's cover of "You Raise Me Up" became his third most popular song on the adult contemporary charts as of March 2004. Later that year, he also performed the song "Remember" (with Tanja Tzarovska ) on the Troy soundtrack, " Believe " on the soundtrack to the 2004 animated film The Polar Express and a cover of Linkin Park 's "My December".
He also composed the song "You Raise Me Up". In an interview with Radio Norge in February 2010, Løvland stated that this song had been covered more than 500 times thus far. Barbra Streisand asked Ann Hampton Callaway to write lyrics to a Rolf Løvland melody which she entitled "I've Dreamed of You", and sang to James Brolin at their wedding ...
Closer is the second studio album by vocalist Josh Groban, released in November 2003.Much like his first studio album, half of this album's songs are sung in English, with the remainder sung in various other languages (Italian, Spanish and French).