The Voice

Album: Gatherings (1996)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was the winner of the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland. The contest was held on May 18 in Norway at Oslo Spektrum. As Eimear Quinn watched the votes coming in, she performed an impromptu duet with a-ha singer Morten Harket, who was co-hosting the contest in Oslo. In 2006, Quinn read the Irish votes at the Eurovision Song Contest.
  • The song was in the Dutch charts for 6 weeks. It never got higher than #22. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    michel - delft, Netherlands, for above 2

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