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Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Irish-Norwegian musical group
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Elisabeth Andreassen
Elisabeth Andreassen
Norwegian female singer and songwriter
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Olsen Brothers
Olsen Brothers
Danish duo
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Alexander Rybak
Alexander Rybak
Norwegian singer, actor, violinist, composer, pianist
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Kikki Danielsson
Kikki Danielsson
Swedish singer, accordinist and song lyricist
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Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway
American singer
Rolf Løvland
Norwegian composer, song lyricist, arranger, and pianist

Rolf Løvland

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Norwegian composer, song lyricist, arranger, and pianist
Awards Received
Jury Honorary Award in Spellemannprisen
Spellemannprisens bransjepris
News
Member of, past and present

Rolf Undsæt Løvland (born 19 April 1955) is a Norwegian composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist. 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. 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.

Additionally, in 1985, Rolf Løvland was one of the composers behind the song "Tomorrow will be Better" (simplified Chinese: 明天会更好; pinyin: Míngtiān huì Gènghǎo), a song directly inspired of the UK charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" from the year prior.

He also composed 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.