"You Raise Me Up" is a Christian contemporary song that was originally composed by the Secret Garden duo. The music was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. After the song was performed early in 2003 by the Secret Garden and their invited lead singer, Brian Kennedy, the song only became a minor UK hit. The song has been recently recorded by more than a hundred other artists, one of which is Josh Groban. He popularized the song later in the year it was originally composed and performed by the Secret Garden and Brian Kennedy, and became a hit in the United States. The band Westlife then popularized the song in the United Kingdom two years later. The song You Raise Me Up is sung as a contemporary hymn in church services.
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Famous quotes containing the words raise me up and/or raise:
“Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust,
Who in the dark and silent grave
When we have wandered all our ways
Shuts up the story of our days.
And from which earth, and grave, and dust,
The Lord shall raise me up I trust.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children’s, and of what our children’s future will hold.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)