Hallelujah

在新西兰南岛荒无人烟的地方，盛开着一种五颜六色的野花，名叫lupins，中文名羽扇豆。那块常年

飘着仙气的世外桃源，近几年冒出了一位长发飘飘，集歌手创作演奏于一身的才女歌手Gin Wigmore，

她像那原野上五彩斑斓的lupins，其沙哑勾连原生态的音乐每有灵光闪烁，让人怦然心动、过耳不忘。

 

Hallelujah, the poignant and potent centerpiece of Gin Wigmore's debut music album "Extended Play", is an amazingly powerful song dedicated to the young singer's father, who died of cancer while she's visiting Argentina at age 16.

Upon her return to New Zealand, Gin articulated the grief of losing her Dad in writing the song which eventually led her to win the US-based International Songwriting Competition in 2004, when the 18 year old girl beat 11000 songwriting aspirants from 77 countries to become the youngest and only unsigned Grand Prize winner in the history of the ISC.

I love this masterpiece of music completely and whole heartily, and admire the way Gin had managed to master the pain and saddness at THAT age in such a mature and soulful flow, it feels so delicate yet so emotional, simply taking the breathe away.

歌如烈酒魇如玉，Gin有一种爆发力强大却又很懂收敛的野性声音，Hallelujah是一支能让奔马收蹄猛虎安静的传世之作大杀器。。。

 

 

HALLELUJAH

Lyrics and Music Composed By Gin Wigmore


Take your last step towards heaven
And its glow
Take your last breath of sunlight,
Don't let it go
Take your last look to remember now,
So that you know

I wont let you fade from no minds
I wont let you fade from no minds
Hey hey now
I wont let you fade from no minds

Hallelujah for these eyes to see your painted life
Hallelujah for the touch of skin to skin with mine
Hallelujah for this mind that keeps our souls combined
Hallelujah for this life that let me be your child

Have your mind,
have your strength to stay alive
And keep your eyes open with mine

You followed the road for the angels and you left me behind
A face without words can last a lifetime but it's never the same
“So, don't say goodbyes that last forever
Hold on just for a while
but I'll be by to see you some day soon now
Please hold on tonight
oh cause I'm fallin, I don't know why”

Hallelujah for these eyes to see your painted life
Hallelujah for the touch now of skin to skin with mine
Hallelujah for this mind that keeps our souls combined
Hallelujah for this life that let me be your child

Hallelujah, to be a part of your life
To see inside of all your smiles
You're a traffic light of fire
You're a man who I believe will never die

Lately Gin Wigmore's music took her out of New Zealand to conquer Australia, and now she’s ready to make a household name of herself in America. "Hallelujah" was featured in the season 6 finale of One Tree Hill (American TV series), and her new song "Don't Stop" appears in Lew's commercial at TV stations across the country.

But whenever she is in the spotlight, she is far from home. “You don’t have big dreams growing up in New Zealand,” she says. “You either want to be a teacher or a football coach. If I went home and told them that I’m big in Australia, they’d call me a dickhead and tell me to milk the cows.”

Wigmore lived the life of a rock star way before making it. She first got into music by sneaking into open mic nights at age 14. The folks at the bar didn’t learn her age until she won one evening and they asked for her information so they could reward her with a take of the door. She returned the following week with a parent in tow, but the ordeal put a halt to the fun part of bar culture for her, and she stopped going. It wasn’t until she entered and won an international songwriting competition a handful of years ago that she got back into music.

The singer-songwriter’s new album, Holy Smoke, just went three-times platinum in New Zealand, but it’s her publicist who informs her of this when she stops by the INKED office. In fact, Wigmore can’t recall the last time she was home. “I’m either on a plane, on stage, or in a hotel room,” Wigmore explains about her Shermanesque march on tour of Australia and America. She performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as part of her three-month American spring tour and caught the ear of Steve Madden, who then brought her under the wing of his shoe empire for various projects, including some forthcoming in-store concerts in the States.

And when the subject turns to finding love in her Samsonite existence, she says coquettishly yet confidently, “It makes it hard to have a boyfriend.” Love, Wigmore says, is what every great song is about. Her favorite song and perhaps the gateway drug to her music is the single “Hey Ho.” At first listen it sounds light, sweet, and radio-ready, but once you delve into the lyrics (“You should know that nothing leaves my side/I’m gonna come around/I’m gonna shoot you down/You knocked my crown/Now you can go six feet underground”) you catch her edge.