Enya (natural 17 May 1961), birth name Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (for instance seen when a Anglicized Enya Brennan), is Ireland's best-selling solo musician. As a musical organisation, Enya is really threesome population: Enya herself, world health organization composes & performs a music; Nicky Ryan, who produces a records; & Roma Ryan, who writes a lyrics in various languages. Enya occurs as phonetic approximation of how Eithne is pronounced inside her native Irish.

Biography
Musical upbringing
Eithne was natural around Gweedore, County Donegal, in Ireland in 1961 to a musical personal. Her grandparents were within a band that played throughout Ireland; her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening a taphouse; & her mother played around a b& and late taught music at the Gweedore Comprehensive School. Eithne hWhen quadruplet brothers & quaternity sisters, many of whom formed a band An Clann As Dobhair around 1968. (It renamed a band Clannad in the 1970s.)

Inside 1980, Eithne joined Clannad, the band composed of her sib Máire, Pól, and Ciarán and twin uncles Noel and Padraig Duggan. Eithne played a keyboard and provided backing vocals on their albums Crann Úll (1980) & Fuaim (1982). Around 1982 (shortly prior to Clannad became famed for "Theme From Harry's Game"), producer & manager Nicky Ryan left Clannad & Eithne joined him to begin her have solo career.

Solo career
Eithne, working by using Nicky & his married woman Roma, recorded ii solo implemental songs known as "An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian" ("The Solar Wind") & "Miss Clare Remembers" that were freed on the 1984 album Touch Travel. Eithne wwhen number one credited as Enya for writing occasionally of the music for the 1984 movie The Frog Prince. She was contracted to provide music for the soundtrack of the 1986 television documentary The Celts. A music she produced was featured in her foremost solo album, Enya (1987), but it attracted little attention at a instance. A song "Boadicea" from either this album would late exist as sampled by The Fugees (1996), causing a brief stir because the class action neither sought permission from either Enya nor gave her credit ab initio, & by Mario Winans, who did give her credit. (Ironically a Winans track, "I Don't Wanna Know," which features the rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 in 2004.)

Enythe achieved a breakthrough around her career within 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song "Orinoco Flow" (periodically called "Sail Away"). "Orinoco Flow" topped a stock and index charts inside Britain, and a album sold eight million copies. 3 years late she followed by owning a second hit album: Shepherd Moons, which sold ten million copies and earned Enya her 1st Grammy Award. Despite winning Grammys for "Best New Age Album", Enya does not personally classify her music when belonging thereto genre. 4 years late she freed a Grammy-winning The Memory of Trees (1995).

Within 1997, Enya released her greatest hits collection Paint The Sky With Stars: The Best of Enya, which featured two newly songs. She was offered a risk to compose a score for James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, but she declined. Cameron later on asked composer James Horner to adapt Enya's style for his score. A eventual guide of Norwegian vocalizer Sissel resulted in operate that a select few sources mistakenly credited to Enya.

As punishment the 5 month hold off, she freed A Day Without Rain in 2000 featuring 34 minutes of freshly lesson. Fallowing a September 11, 2001 attacks, her song "Only Time" (from either The Day Forgoing Rain) was utilized as a background within several radio & TV reports all about a attacks. She ab initio frowned upon this have, especially whenever numerous bootlegged versions of "Only Time" mixed by using healthy results from either a attack began to pop up. She agreed to release the favorite edition of the song sustaining funds running to the families of sportsmen. Numerous Enythe fans, nonetheless, come resentful that her music has been linked by using a attacks; an case of this occurred in a 2002 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live when images of battle in Afghanistan were shown on screen when she performed "May It Be", the song sustaining there are no war connection. This sparked a few complaints inside Enya's fan community.

Enythe is self-admittedly a slow worker whilst it comes to composing music. Following, fans will have to hold off when hanker when 5 years between albums. Around 2004, Enya was reputedly working on her next album, however there are no release date has been placed. Inside September 2004, the freshly song, placed to words from either the Japanese verse form & known as "Sumiregusa" ("Wild Violet") was unveiled within Japan as part of an ad campaign for Panasonic. Inside announcing a freshly recording, Warner Music Japan stated that Enya's next album was scheduled for release (within Japan at least) in mid-November. Fallowing the brief flurry of excitement among fans, Enythe issued a handout in her official Web places in 19 September stating that this was a mistake & there are no freshly album is immediately forthcoming.

Enya's official site within Germany (web.enya.diamond state) has indicated that the fresh album can be freed around November 2005 in Germany.

In September 23, 2005, Roma Ryan on behalf of Enya announced through a official Enya Forum that the freshly album, Amarantine, is freed around November, although Warner Music has eventually to announce an official date.[http://unity.enya.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11520]

In September 29 and October 3, 2005, there were two separate security breaches at Enya's castle, which has already experienced an judged €250,000 spent in security. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4305058.stm] [http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgmD1yfc0tDmksgdL11Zs5FWAE.asp]

Music
The total of Enya's songs come sung totally around Irish or Latin, by owning others containing a hitherto-mentioned mixed with English or English by itself. Roma Ryan has written lyrics inside Welsh, Irish, Latin, Spanish, and even languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Enya has performed songs on to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's "Lothlórien" (instrumental) and 2001's "May It Be" (sung in English and Quenya) and "Aníron" (in Sindarin)—the last two appearing on the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. "May It Be" was nominative for an Academy Award for Best Song at a 2002 ceremonies, however it misused to Randy Newman's "If I Didn't Have You" from either Monsters, Inc.

Enythe has given many survive performances within various television program, cases & ceremonies (her virtually all recent appearance was at the tribute to the Brennan personal which took place in Letterkenny), however she has however to clean a concert. She has said, though, that she would love to make out a few day, & considers it to become a great conceivable challenge.

Meanwhile Enya.com, Enya's official low presence is abuzz when her fans await her freshly album Amarantine. A places's forum has proven to become the super popular & ofttimes visited metropolitan area.

Discography

Albums
Enya (1987) Both versions of this album were freed. While reissued by Warner Music under a title A Celts, a original-release track entitled "Portrait" was replaced by having the about monovular (however hanker) piece of music entitled "Portrait (Out of the Blue)." Watermark (1988) A bit of versions of this album include an additional track, "Storms in Africa II." Shepherd Moons (1991, won 1992 Grammy for "Best New Age Album") There are at least ii versions of Shepherd Moons. the foremost release featured a chant version of the song "Book of Days". An English-language version of this song was later on utilized in the soundtrack of the motion-picture show Far and Away. Coinciding with that, 100% pressings of the album, individual, & collections since mid-1992 include the English-language version inside stead of the original. A Celts (1992) (remastered re-release of the 1987 album Enya) The Memory of Trees (1995, won 1996 Grammy for "Best New Age Album") Paint The Sky With Stars (1997) (greatest hits collection with ii freshly tracks) A Day Without Rain (2000, won 2001 Grammy for "Best New Age Album") 3 versions of The Day While forgoing Rain were freed. Aside from either a general release in a America & UK, the Canadian release included even more, an extra track, when a Japanese one experienced 2 extra tracks. Amarantine (2005). Release date November 22, 2005 based on data from Aigle Music, Enya's private music company inside Ireland.

Additionally, the 1985 soundtrack album The Frog Prince (a.k.a. French Example) contains music composed by Enythe, but not performed by her; a afterwards CD release (1995) added two antecedently unreleased vocal tracks by her.

Singles
Across the years, Enya has freed a prominent total of Video singles, several of which involved bonus tracks that were nin involved on any of the albums: "I Want Tomorrow" (1987) "Evening Falls..." (1988) "Orinoco Flow" (1988) "Storms In Africa" (1989) "6 Tracks" (1989) "Oíche Chiún (Silent Night)" (1989) "3 Tracks EP" (1990) "Exile" (1991) "Caribbean Blue" (1991) "How Can I Keep From Singing?" (1991) "Book Of Days" (1992) "The Celts" (1992) "Marble Halls" (1994) "The Christmas EP" (1994) "Anywhere Is" (1995) "On My Way Home" (1996) "Only If..." (1997) "Only Time" (2000) "Wild Child" (2001) "Only Time (Remix)" (2001) "May It Be" (2002) "Amarantine" (2005) (to be freed within mid-November)

These are a most common misconception that Enya recorded the song "Adiemus". Like, it was recorded by musicians of the class action Adiemus. Likewise, recordings by Loreena McKennitt, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Moya Brennan (Enya's sister) have too typically been erroneously identified when Enya recordings (particularly music that Sissel recorded for the Enya-such as soundtrack to Titanic). Likewise, Ronan Hardiman (who is responsible the Riverdance soundtrack) recorded an album, Solas, which features similar vocal recording techniques to Enya; as a result, a music has typically been mistaken for hers too.

DVD release
Around 2000, Warner Music released Enya: A Videos Collectiin on DVD in Europe and Asia, collecting altogether her cd from either "Orinoco Flow" as much as & including "Wild Child", except for the videos from either "Book of Days" which was replaced by the survive TV performance due to licensing complications on to the cd's utilize of footage from either a film Far and Away. The Northward Western (Region 1) release was announced but did non occur, a understanding for which has never been officially stated. When of 2005, The Streaming video Collection is however considered to become "coming soon" by a few Northerly Western low retail merchant although bootleg copies from Asia keep close at hand circulated at a retail level around occasionally area of Vicinity One. These are today required that the DVD videos release for Area One is improbable until Enya releases her next album.

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="4"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

|US Hot 100 |US Modern Rock |US Mainstream Rock |UK |- | 1988 | "Orinoco Flow" | - | #6 | - | #1 | Watermark |- | 1988 | "Evening Falls..." | - | - | - | #20 | Watermark |- | 1989 | "Storms In Africa (Part II)" | - | - | - | #41 | Watermark |- | 1991 | "Caribbean Blue" | - | - | - | #13 | Shepherd Moons |- | 1991 | "How Can I Keep From Singing" | - | - | - | #32 | Shepherd Moons |- | 1992 | "Book Of Days" | - | - | - | #10 | Shepherd Moons |- | 1992 | "The Celts" | - | - | - | #29 | A Celts |- | 1995 | "Anywhere Is" | - | - | - | #7 | A Memory of Trees |- | 1996 | "On My Way Home" | - | - | - | #26 | A Memory of Trees |- | 1997 | "Only If..." | - | - | - | #43 | Paint a Sky by owning Stars |- | 2000 | "Only Time" | - | - | - | #32 | The Day Forswearing Rain |}