Name Rolf Lovland Role Composer | Spouse Kiki Lovland | |
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Albums Songs from a Secret Garden, The Ultimate Secret Ga, White Stones, Earthsongs, Winter Poem Similar People Brendan Graham, Fionnuala Sherry, John Lenehan, Ann Hampton Callaway, Kite Okachimachi |
You raise me up - Rolf Løvland (composer) - Altra Volta string quartet - instrumental version
Rolf Undsæt Løvland (born 19 April 1955) is a Norwegian composer and lyricist. Together with Fionnuala Sherry, he formed the Celtic-Nordic group Secret Garden, in which he was the composer, producer, and 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 master's degree from the Norwegian Institute of Music in Oslo. He is maybe most recognised for composing the song "You Raise Me Up", which, according to Rolf Løvland in an interview with Radio Norge in February 2010, has been covered more than 500 times thus far.
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- You raise me up Rolf Lvland composer Altra Volta string quartet instrumental version
- You raise me up from rolf l vland and brendan graham with lyrics
- Awards
- Songs
- References

Løvland has 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 first two titles. In 2006 he composed the music for The Mermaid Chair, a television movie.

Løvland was a foreign exchange student in Shawnee, Oklahoma for a year while in high school.
You raise me up from rolf l vland and brendan graham with lyrics
Awards


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. The song was later recorded on her CD, "A Love Like Ours", released as a single and selected for the album, The Essential Barbra Streisand. Streisand performed this song on her live double CD, Timeless.




Songs
SleepsongEarthsongs · 2005
Serenade to SpringSongs from a Secret Garden · 1995
Sometimes When It RainsEarthsongs · 2005