Enya
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Enya Biography
With her blend of folk melodies, synthesized backdrops, and
classical motifs, Enya created a distinctive style that more closely
resembled new age than the folk and Celtic music that provided her
initial influences. Enya is from Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland,
which she left in 1980 to join the Irish band Clannad, the group that
already featured her older brothers and sisters. She stayed with
Clannad for two years, then left, hooking up with producer Nicky Ryan
and lyricist Roma Ryan, with whom she recorded film and television
scores. The result was a successful album of TV music for the BBC. Enya
then recorded Watermark (1988), which featured her distinctive, flowing
music and multi-overdubbed trancelike singing; the album sold four
million copies worldwide. Watermark established Enya as an
international star and launched a successful career that lasted well
into the '90s.
Enya (born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin) was born into a musical family. Her
father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, a popular
Irish show band; her mother was an amateur musician. Most important to
Enya's career were her siblings, who formed Clannad in 1976 with
several of their uncles. Enya joined the band as a keyboardist in 1979
and contributed to several of the group's popular television
soundtracks. In 1982, she left Clannad, claiming that she was
uninterested in following the pop direction the group had begun to
pursue. Within a few years, she was commissioned, along with
producer/arranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan, to provide the
score for a BBC-TV series called The Celts. The soundtrack was released
in 1986 as her eponymous solo album.
Enya didn't receive much notice, but Enya and the Ryans' second effort,
Watermark, became a surprise hit upon its release in 1988. Orinoco
Flow, the first single, became a number one hit in Britain, helping
the album eventually sell eight million copies worldwide. Enya spent
the years following the success of Watermark rather quietly; her most
notable appearance was a cameo on Sinéad O'Connor's I Do Not Want What
I Haven't Got. She finally released Shepherd Moons, her follow-up to
Watermark, in 1991. Shepherd Moons was even more successful than its
predecessor, eventually selling over ten million copies worldwide; it
entered the U.S. charts at number 17 and remained in the Top 200 for
almost four years.
Again, Enya was slow to follow up on the success of Shepherd Moons,
spending nearly four years working on her fourth album. The record,
entitled Memory of Trees, was released in December 1995. Memory of
Trees entered the U.S. charts at number nine and sold over two million
copies within its first year of release. In 1997 came the release of a
greatest-hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya,
which featured two new songs. Enya's first album of new material in
five years, Day Without Rain, was released in late 2000. In 2002, she
contributed material to the first film in Peter Jackson's award-winning
Lord of the Rings trilogy, scoring a hit with the single May It Be.
Amarantine, her first full-length recording since Day Without Rain,
followed in November 2005. A holiday EP, Christmas Secrets, arrived in
2006. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine