You Raise Me Up

"You Raise Me Up"
Artwork for digital release, taken from official website
Single by Josh Groban
from the album Closer
Released	September 10, 2004(Single) October, 2003(Album)
Genre	Operatic pop Adult contemporary Classical
Length	4:52Album version 4:47Single Version
Label	Reprise Records Warner Bros. Records 143 Records
Producer(s)	David Foster

"You Raise Me Up"
Single by Westlife
from the album Face to Face
Released	October 24, 2005
Format	CD Single
Recorded	Rokstone Studios, London 2004
Genre	Pop
Length	4:01
Label	Sony BMG
Producer(s)	Steve Mac
Westlife singles chronology
"Obvious" (2004) "You Raise Me Up" (2005) "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" (2005)

"You Raise Me Up"
Single by Wesley
from the album Vandaag en morgen
Released	February 4, 2010
Format	CD Single
Genre	Pop
Wesley singles chronology
"You Raise Me Up" (2010) "Een ongelofelijke droom" (2010)

"You Raise Me Up" is a song originally composed by Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden. The music was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. After the song was performed early in 2002 by the Secret Garden and their invited lead singer, Brian Kennedy, the song only became a minor UK hit. The song has been recorded by more than a hundred other artists including Josh Groban, who popularized the song in 2003; his rendition became a hit in the United States. The Irish band Westlife then popularized the song in the UK two years later. "You Raise Me Up" is sung as a contemporary hymn in church services.

The song was originally written as an instrumental piece and titled "Silent Story." Parts of the melody (especially the opening phrase of its chorus) resemble the traditional Irish tune Londonderry Air, which is best known as the usual tune to the 1910 song Danny Boy. Løvland approached Irish novelist and songwriter Brendan Graham to write the lyrics to his melody after reading Graham's novels.

The song was written by and for Løvland himself and performed for the very first time at the funeral of Løvland's mother. Here he noted “there's something about the song people are embracing - which becomes emotionally strong. [...] I believe people think of it as a song they use for their own stuff.”.

In 2002, it was released on the Secret Garden album Once in a Red Moon, with the vocals sung by Irish singer Brian Kennedy, and sold well in both Ireland and Norway. Originally, Brian Kennedy was supposed to follow Secret Garden on their Asian tour in 2002, but fell ill, and could not attend. He was replaced by Norwegian singer Jan Werner Danielsen, who also later recorded the song together with Secret Garden. A demo version of this recording was released in 2010, on Danielsen's posthumous compilation album One More Time - The Very Best Of, which included several previously unpublished recordings.