Singer: Hayley Dee Westenra

Lyrics Translation: True Thoughts

Song Introduction:

This song was written in the early 19th century Originating between the Mississippi and Missouri River valleys, Shenandoah is derived from the Indian word meaning "Daughter of the Stars". The song tells the story of a rich, handsome young businessman who falls in love with the daughter of an Indian chief. The song was loved by sailors and was passed down along their voyages. It was first widely circulated in the United States before the 1840s. Shenandoah is now the name of a small river with a total length of 40 miles between the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania and Georgia in the United States. Because Shenandoah is so famous, the national parks in the entire area are also named after "Shenandoah".

Singer profile:

Hayley Dee Westenra

Hayley Dee Westenra, born on April 10, 1987 Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, she is a crossover soprano and songwriter from New Zealand, and a person who is passionate about public welfare and charity. He has successfully released eight albums in Asia.

Hayley comes from a musical family. Her mother Jill’s mother Shirley Ireland has a very beautiful voice, while her father Gerry only needs Once you hear the pieces, you can play them. Hailey's family believes that Hailey's beautiful voice was inherited from her grandmother Shirley. And when Hayley was two years old, she sang "Silent Night" at her aunt Carol's wedding, and her family didn't make a fuss about it.

At age 12, Hailey went to a professional recording studio to record "Walking in the Air." This is a commemorative record distributed to family and friends. Only 1,000 copies were made (now a priceless collector's item among Hailey fans).

She became famous internationally when she signed with Decca Records (a subsidiary of Universal Music Group) and released "Pure", a song that combines classical, light pop and traditional Maori music. It started after the album.

In just a short time since the release of Hayley Westenra's first album, the 16-year-old New Zealander from Christchurch has already made history in the music industry. In its first week of release alone, "Pure" sold 19,068 copies, soaring to the top of the British Classical Music Chart. The album became the fastest-growing debut album in the history of the British Classical Music Chart. and entered the UK pop charts at number eight. To date, "Pure" has sold 2 million copies. "Pure" has been awarded 10x platinum status in Hailey's native New Zealand, making her the best-selling artist of all genres in the country's history.

In August 2006, Hayley joined the Irish folk music bel canto girl group Celtic Woman and appeared on their second major DVD/CD album "Celtic Woman" - A New Journey: Live at Slane Castle. On September 5, Hailey was named "Top Ten Young People in the World in 2006" by "Junior Chamber International" magazine, becoming the first person in New Zealand to win this honor.

In March 2007, Hailey released a new album "Celtic Treasure" in the United States and sang in New York.

On May 6, Hailey sang the hymn "Abide With Me" at the Crystal Cathedral in the United States. In July, she participated in the recording of the 50th anniversary re-recording of Leonard Bernstein's masterpiece, the great musical West Side Story. The album was nominated for the 50th Grammy Award. At the end of the year, Hailey successfully held a series of "Baby" concerts in Fukuoka, Sapporo, Tokyo, Sendai, Nagoya, Yokohama, Hiroshima, Osaka and other cities in Japan.

Shenandoah

Shenandoah National Park is located in Virginia, only about two hours' drive from Washington. The park is run through by Skyline Drive, which is more than 100 miles long from north to south. The main landform features of the park are valleys and forest landforms.

If you use the national parks west of the Mississippi River as a standard, you may be wondering how Shenandoah got the name of a national park. Its mountains are not high, the water is not deep, the forests are not large, and there are not many kinds of animals. Moreover, there are no obvious changes in the landscape on the one-hundred-mile-long Skyline Drive. What you see at every parking point is the same, which is the view of the valley from the ridge. Although there are indeed some magnificent scenery in the middle, they are too scattered to keep people excited for a hundred miles. Shenandoah has no clear theme, or representative terrain and natural ecology. Every time I want to describe Shenandoah, I don’t know where to start. The national parks in the west were all established to protect the existing special terrain and natural ecology, but Shenandoah was established because Congress wanted a national park on the east coast, which is a bit putting the cart before the horse. Moreover, in order to establish a national park, the government semi-forced to acquire the houses and land of the mountain residents here, asking them to leave the place where they have lived for several generations and move to the plains.

History has its cause and effect. Sixty or seventy years have passed since the incident, and it is meaningless to judge right from wrong based on superficial observation. What's important is that we now have a national park less than a two-hour drive from Washington DC, allowing people living in the city to enjoy the natural beauty of the mountain forests.

If you can go to Shenandoah National Park in a leisurely mood, slow down your pace and don't deliberately argue with other national parks. Every national park has its own beautiful side, which is hard to appreciate if you are in a hurry. The beautiful side of Shenandoah requires some patience and time to experience it. Just driving there, even if you stop at every designed overlooking point, you still can't see the reason. Take the time to walk a few trails, even if they are short, go deep into the forest or climb to the top of a nearby mountain. After a few dozen minutes, the scenery will be really different.

Wildflowers should be in full bloom everywhere in Shenandoah in spring. The national park holds special wildflower guided tours on weekends in mid-May. For details, you can check the national park website. Everyone with experience knows that it is beautiful to come here in autumn, but also because everyone knows that the whole road will be jammed during the red foliage weekend in autumn. In addition to autumn, spring, especially early spring, is also a very suitable season to visit Xanadu. The young green leaves that have just sprouted on the trees are as beautiful as translucence, which can only be seen in the first few weeks of spring. There are few tourists, the climate is cool, and walking on the mountain road is particularly smooth.

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