In a video taken on October 31, 2025 in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, Norwegian-Irish band Secret Garden's Fionnuala Sherry thanks a local Chinese medical team for saving the band's sound engineer. Photo: Courtesy of local media

A Chinese medical team saved the sound engineer of the Norwegian-Irish band Secret Garden, Dag Stephen Solberg, after he suffered a heart attack on October 27, days before the band's 30th anniversary concert in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. The band in response invited the medical staff as special guests to the Friday concert, where the group's violinist Fionnuala Sherry thanked the team backstage, according to a video posted by local media outlet gochengdu.cn on RedNote on Tuesday.

The video shows Sherry in tears as she embraces and shakes hands with the medical workers. "I can see I'm emotional, but thank you," she said. "We are so, so grateful to each and every one of you."

Sherry said in the video that they were fortunate to be in Chengdu when the incident happened, adding that the city's medical standards "are superior to anywhere else in the world."

According to the footage, the sound engineer Solberg suffered a heart attack on the night of October 27 and, after being stabilized by local medical team, returned to work on Friday to help the band complete their Chengdu performance. "It's a miracle," Sherry said.

The sound engineer has worked with Secret Garden for 30 years and is regarded by the musicians as part of the family, per Sherry.

Secret Garden is an Irish-Norwegian new-age music duo composed of violinist and singer Sherry and Norwegian composer and pianist Rolf Lovland. Lovland's composition You Raise Me Up has become one of the most widely known contemporary classics worldwide.

The Chengdu concert is one of five stops on Secret Garden's China tour celebrating the group's 30th anniversary, with other performances in Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai.

Global Times