Run was covered by what actor and singer from Derry, Northern Ireland, who won the Glee Project on August 21, 2011?
Run (Snow Patrol song) "Run" is a power ballad by Northern Irish/Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol from their third studio album, "Final Straw" (2003). It was released in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2004 as the second single from the album. The song was received with positive reviews by music critics. It reached the top five on the UK Singles Chart. The song was covered by multiple artists, including Tre Lux, Three Graces, Damian McGinty, and Leona Lewis, the last of whom released it as single on 30 November 2008.
Glee (TV series) The series was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, the latter of whom first conceived of "Glee" as a film. The three wrote all of the show's episodes for the first two seasons, and Murphy and Falchuk initially served as the show's main directors. The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19, 2009, and the first season aired from September 9, 2009, to June 8, 2010. Subsequent seasons aired in September through May. The sixth and final season aired from January to March 2015. "Glee" features on-screen performance-based musical numbers that were selected by Murphy, who aimed to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, and produced by Adam Anders and Peer Åström. Songs covered in the show were released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast, and a series of "Glee" albums have been released by Columbia Records. The music of "Glee" has been a commercial success, with over thirty-six million digital single sales and eleven million album sales worldwide through October 2011. The series' merchandise also includes DVD and Blu-ray releases, an iPad application, and karaoke games for the Wii. There were live concert tours by the show's cast after the first and second seasons completed shooting; a concert film based on the 2011 tour, "", was produced by Murphy and Fox and directed by Kevin Tancharoen.