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"The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" is a song by Quincy Jones, featuring Afro-American R&B singers Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge, and Barry White. It was released as a single from Jones's album, Back on the Block (1989), and peaked at number one on the Billboard Black Singles chart for one week in 1990. [ 1 ]
In 1997, British magazine Music Week gave "Secret Garden" three out of five, describing it as a "melancholic track". [4] They also added that "this keyboard-led, introspective love song is low key, sparse and touching." [5] Dele Fadele from NME felt "the wounded undertow" of the song "carries a strain of machismo". [6]
The song is noted for its almost complete absence of lyrics — with only 24 words being sung in the original Norwegian version and much of the rest of the song being given over to a violin intermezzo. Duo Secret Garden –Fionnuala Sherry and Løvland– recorded the song in Norwegian and English. [1]
It was first recorded by Secret Garden, in collaboration with Brian Kennedy. Although the original version was not a major hit, the song has since been recorded by more than a hundred other artists, most notably American singer Josh Groban in 2003 and Irish group Westlife in 2005.
The machine is a model 191. The Singer sewing machine was the first complex standardised technology to be mass marketed. It was not the first sewing machine, and its patent in 1851 led to a patent battle with Elias Howe, inventor of the lockstitch machine. This eventually resulted in a patent sharing accord among the major firms. [18]
Another 1997 Hong Kong ATV drama 天長地久("Fated Love") also featured several tracks from this album, including "Song from a Secret Garden", "Adagio", "Serenade to Spring" and "Papillon". The title track was covered by Greek melodic death metal band Nightrage in 2019 and included as a Japanese bonus track on Wolf to Man .