I never thought of myself composing or being on stage." Career 1980–1985: Clannad and early solo career She said: "It was devastating to be torn away from such a large family, but it was good for my music." Enya left the school at 17 and studied classical music in college for one year, with the aim of becoming "a piano teacher sort of person. This one big book of scales, practising them over and over." When Enya turned eleven, her grandfather paid for her education at a strict convent boarding school in Milford run by nuns of the Loreto order, where she developed a taste for classical music, art, Latin and watercolour painting. I remember my brothers and sisters playing outside and I would be inside playing the piano. "I had to do school work and then travel to a neighbouring town for piano lessons, and then more school work. She learned English at primary school and began piano lessons at age four. She took part in pantomimes at Gweedore Theatre and sang with her siblings in her mother's choir at St Mary's church in Derrybeg.
Įnya described her upbringing as "very quiet and happy." At age three, she took part in her first singing competition at the annual Feis Ceoil music festival. Aodh was also the founder of the Gweedore Theatre company. Enya's maternal grandfather Aodh was the headmaster of the primary school in Dore, and her grandmother was a teacher there. Her mother, Máire Brennan ( née Duggan), who has distant Spanish roots whose ancestors settled on Tory Island, was an amateur musician who played in Leo's band and taught music at Gweedore Community School. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, an Irish showband, and ran Leo's Tavern in Meenaleck. The sixth of nine children, Enya was born into a Roman Catholic family of musicians. Her name is anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan, where Enya is the phonetic spelling of how "Eithne" is pronounced in her native Ulster dialect of Irish "Ní Bhraonáin" translates to "daughter of Brennan". It is a Gaeltacht region where Irish is the primary language. She was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for " May It Be", written for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).Īn aerial view over Enya's hometown of Gweedore, County DonegalĮithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin was born on in Dore, a settlement in the parish of Gweedore, in County Donegal. Enya has won numerous awards, including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the best-selling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. She returned in 2012 and released her eighth album, Dark Sky Island (2015).Įnya's discography has sold 26.5 million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 80 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. (2008), Enya took a four-year break from music. Following Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came.
Sales of the latter and its lead single, " Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the September 11 attacks.
This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995), and A Day Without Rain (2000). The commercial and critical success of Watermark (1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the UK number one and international hit single " Orinoco Flow". She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her considerable artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label.
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Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of Celtic, classical, church, new age, world, pop, and Irish folk music.Įnya's first projects as a solo artist included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince (1984) and the 1987 BBC documentary series The Celts, which was released as her debut album, Enya (1987). She left the group in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore, County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She is the best-selling Irish solo artist in history, and second-best-selling overall in Ireland behind U2.
Enya Patricia Brennan ( / ˈ ɛ n j ə/ Irish: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin born ) is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician known for pioneering modern Celtic music.
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