Cliona Hagan - Medley Wings of a Dove - Annie´s Song - Live!

Cliona Hagan - Medley Wings of a Dove - Annie´s Song - Live at the Salardu Country Rock Festival, Spain, 2018

28-year-old Cliona Hagan won the newcomer of the year gong at the 2016 RTE Irish Country Music Awards. She first shot to fame when she reached the final of The All Ireland Talent Show on RTE TV in 2009 after being mentored by Eurovision Song Contest winner Dana.

Cliona is a classically trained singer and music teacher, but she insists that country is her first love. The young Tyrone woman says: "Whether it was American or Irish country, I loved it, with my favourites being the Dixie Chicks and Garth Brooks… and of course the great Irish country singers like Daniel O'Donnell, Philomena Begley and Susan McCann.

"Wings of a Dove' is a country song written by Bob Ferguson in 1958. "Wings of a Dove" was most popular when it was recorded by Ferlin Husky in 1960. The Ferlin Husky recording went to number one on the country charts for 10 nonconsecutive weeks. It was Ferlin Husky's third and final number one on the country chart, spending nine months on the chart. "Wings of a Dove" was successful on the pop charts, as well, peaking at number 12 on the Hot 100. In 1987, Broadcast Music Incorporated awarded Ferguson with the "million air" plays for the "Wings of a Dove".

The song alludes to several passages from the Christian Bible about doves sent by the Lord, including a verse about God sending Noah a dove during the flood in Genesis 8:6-12. Dolly Parton's and Porter Wagner's cover versions include a verse not in the original, referring to another passage about a dove in Matthew 3:16 where "After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him."

"Annie's Song" (also known as "Annie's Song (You Fill Up My Senses)") is a folk rock and country song recorded and written by singer-songwriter John Denver. The song was released as a single from Denver's album, Back Home Again. It was his second number-one song in the United States, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. "Annie's Song" also went to number one on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1974.

It went to number one in the United Kingdom, where it was Denver's only major hit single (many of Denver's American hits were more familiar in the UK through cover versions by other artists). Four years later, an instrumental version also became flutist James Galway's only major British hit.

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