Secret Garden made history by winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995 with “Nocturne”, an entry that was more an instrumental piece than a song. In the 40 year history of this prestigious pan-European television extravaganza, an instrumental piece had never previously won. A piece so stylistically removed from the “European pop format” commonly associated with the song contest, that the press stated: “Secret Garden has redefined the Eurovision Song Contest”.

Secret Garden has since recorded 11 albums of their own music, maintaining a strong position as one of the top-selling artists on the Universal Classics & Jazz label - with 113 platinum albums worldwide and more than 3 billion streams on top of 5 million physical albums. A run of 311 weeks at the Billboard New Age charts solidifies their consistent popularity through their quarter of a century career starting with their Eurovision win in 1995.

Their song “You Raise Me Up” (2001) was made popular throughout the world by artists like Josh Groban, Westlife, Il Divo and more than a thousand other artists - making it one of the most recorded songs of this century.

“We’ve tried to avoid being pigeonholed into particular genres of music. Our music is our own - starting with simple melodies, wanting to tell a story, mostly without words and sometimes with words. Whatever lies beyond this personal and intuitive process is not our concern and not something we think about”, says Fionnuala and Rolf.