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Secret Garden is
an Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also
understood by some as Neo-classical music.
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 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. In
addition Rolf Løvland also co-wrote the song "La det swinge"
(Let it swing) that secured Norway its first Eurovision Song
Contest victory in 1985. |
