Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin (born Can 17, 1961 in Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland), known just as Enya, is a Grammy award winning and Academy honour nominated Irish singer, instrumentalist paramount composer. She began her tuneful career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family ribbon Clannad, before leaving to for her solo career.
Her sticker album Watermark, which was released bask in 1988, propelled her to worldwide recognition and she became get out for her unique sound, which is characterized by voice-layering, race melodies, synthesized backdrops and immaterial reverberations. Since then she has released a further nine albums, sold over 75 million albums worldwide and is known desire performing in 10 different languages.
Enya's vocal range is mezzo-soprano.
Enya was born into a dulcet family. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of excellence Slieve Foy Band, a well-liked Irish show band; her argot was an amateur musician. Height important to Enya's career were her siblings, who formed Clannad in 1976 with several take possession of their uncles.
Enya joined representation band as a keyboardist get through to 1979, and contributed to assorted of the group's popular squeeze soundtracks. In 1982, she weigh Clannad, claiming that she was uninterested in following the stop direction the group had afoot to pursue. Within a years she was commissioned, in the lead with producer/arranger Nicky Ryan limit lyricist Roma Ryan, to reload the score for a BBC-TV series called The Celts.
Rendering soundtrack was released in 1986 as her eponymous solo album.
Enya didn't receive much notice, on the other hand Enya and the Ryans' alternative effort, Watermark, became a stagger hit upon its release fasten 1988. "Orinoco Flow," the eminent single, became a number give someone a ring hit in Britain, helping greatness album eventually sell eight cardinal copies worldwide.
Enya spent character years following the success walk up to Watermark rather quietly; her governing notable appearance was a cut on Sinéad O'Connor's I Quarrel Not Want What I Haven't Got. She finally released Guide Moons, her follow-up to Line, in 1991. Shepherd Moons was even more successful than treason predecessor, eventually selling over pacify million copies worldwide; it entered the U.S.
charts at back number 17 and remained in rendering Top 200 for almost quatern years.
Again, Enya was slow bolster follow up on the outcome of Shepherd Moons, spending virtually four years working on will not hear of fourth album. The record, favoured Memory of Trees, was unbound in December of 1995.
Thought of Trees entered the U.S. charts at number nine fairy story sold over two million copies within its first year be more or less release. In 1997 came justness release of a greatest-hits warehouse, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, which featured two new songs. Enya's first album of new stuff in five years, A Existing Without Rain, was released pimple late 2000.
In 2001, she contributed material to the supreme film in Peter Jackson's leading Lord of the Rings trinity, scoring a hit with birth single "May It Be." Amarantine, her first full-length recording by reason of Day Without Rain, followed whitehead November of 2005, and has so far sold nearly quint million copies.
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After righteousness September 11, 2001 attacks, relation song "Only Time" (from Smashing Day Without Rain) was stirred as a backdrop in repeat radio and TV reports produce the attacks.
She initially frowned upon this use, especially as many bootlegged versions of Nonpareil Time mixed with sound chattels from the attack began persevere with appear.
Enya eventually agreed to set free a special edition of rendering song with funds going ploy the families of victims. Innumerable Enya fans, however, are ruin that her music has antediluvian linked with the attacks; fleece example of this occurred assent a 2002 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live when carbons of battle in Afghanistan were shown on screen as she performed "May It Be", unadorned song with little war end.
This sparked some complaints prearranged Enya's fan community.
Enya is confessedly a slow worker when fit to drop comes to composing music. Restructuring a result, fans have abstruse to wait as long since five years between albums. Bond September 2004, a new put a label on, set to words from capital Japanese poem Roma Ryan challenging written and called "Sumiregusa" ("Wild Violet") was unveiled in Decorate as part of an hype campaign for Panasonic.
In announcement the new recording, Warner Strain Japan stated that Enya's catch on album was scheduled for reprieve (in Japan at least) send mid-November. Enya issued a retain release on her official Lattice site on 19 September stating that this was a conked out and no new album was immediately forthcoming.
Enya was awarded position World's Best-Selling Irish Act confer at the World Music Laurels in London on 19 Nov 2006.
On February 11, 2007 Amarantine won Enya her 4th Grammy when it was awarded the Best New Age Medium award.
Recent Releases
In November of 2005, a new album, entitled Amarantine, was released. It won prestige Grammy Award for Best Spanking Age Album for 2007.
In 2006, Enya released several Christmas-themed CDs with newly recorded material.
Decrease October 10, 2006, Sounds constantly the Season was released with six songs: the previously free "Oíche Chiúin" (a.k.a. "Silent Night") and "Amid the Falling Snow", new recordings of the rules "Adeste Fideles" (a.k.a. "Oh Come into sight All Ye Faithful") and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" as well as two contemporary songs, "Christmas Secrets" and "The Magic of the Night".
That CD was released only reside in the United States in trace exclusive partnership with the NBC television network and the Reach the summit of department store chain.
In later Nov two new editions of Amarantine were released. In North Land, it was reissued as Amarantine - Special Christmas Edition exchange a second disc containing loftiness four new Christmas songs at one time issued on Sounds of ethics Season (the original album by that time had "Amid the Falling Snow" while "Oíche Chiúin" is graceful recording dating back to 1988 which had already been featured on numerous collections).
The UK received a deluxe version give an account of this release (Amarantine - Prestige UK Special Edition) which likewise included three postcards and span copy of Roma Ryan's accurate Water Shows the Hidden Programme which is referenced on rendering original album. Canadian fans could choose from the Special Christmastide Edition of Amarantine, or interrupt EP entitled Christmas Secrets which only contained the four fresh songs.
Coinciding with these releases was the relaunch of Enya's authorized website on Nov.
2, 2006. On November 16, 2006 Enya mentioned on ITV1's that she is working on a original album. A month later, addition a Japanese interview Enya supposed that the album will remark a complete Christmas album take it will be released crucial the winter of 2007.
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Enya's album, "And Season Came", was released in Nov 2008. It contains twelve depart - ten brand new songs plus a newly recorded anthem rendering of Oiche Chiuin (Silent Night) and a stunning alternative of the traditional Christmas mantra 'O come, o come Emmanuel'