Artist: Secret Garden
Author: Rolf Lovland/Brendan Graham
Label: Decca
Year: 2001
Winning act of the '95 Eurovision Song Contest with Nocturne on their album Once In A Red Moon. Vocal: Brian Kennedy. Originally written (but not cut) as an instrumental (Silent Story). Lovland also wrote the Norwegian '85 ESC winner La Det Swinge for Bobbysocks.
Covers:
Daniel O'Donnell [hit UK & IRE]
Josh Groban [American Idol finalist; hit US; also sang it for the '04 Superbowl and for a NASA commemoration of the victims of Space Shuttle Columbia; also during Oprah Winfrey's 50th birthday show]
Selah [Christian hit US]
Westlife [n°1 UK & IRE]
Brian Kennedy [at George Best's funeral; top 5 UK]
Divo [Spanish version]
Paul Potts [as Por Ti Sére]
Wesley [winner Popstars NL]
Numerable recordings listed since, many of them associated with the 9/11 mourning process.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)