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| Name = Enya

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| Birth_name = Eithne Ní Bhraonáin

| Born = [[17 May]] [[1961]]

[[Image:Flag of Ireland.svg|25px]] [[Gweedore]], [[County Donegal]], [[Ireland]]

| Occupation = [[Singer]]<br>[[Instrumentalist]]<br>[[Composer]]<br>[[Producer]]

| Genre = [[New Age Music]]<br>[[Instrumental]]<br>[[Soundtrack]]<br>[[Pop music|Pop]]

| Years_active = [[1982]] - present

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'''Enya''', birth name '''Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin''' [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPA|/ˈɛnʲə pəˈtrɪʃə nʲiː ˈvˠɾˠiːn̪ˠaːnʲ/}} (sometimes presented in the media as the [[Anglicisation|Anglicised]] '''Enya Brennan'''; born [[17 May]] [[1961]]), in [[Gweedore]], [[County Donegal]], is a four time Grammy Award winning singer, [[Ireland]]'s best-selling solo artist and one of Ireland's best known [[musician]]s.

As a musical group, ''Enya'' is a collaboration between three people: Enya herself, who composes and performs the music; [[Nicky Ryan]], who produces the albums, and [[Roma Ryan]], who writes the [[lyrics]] in various [[language]]s. ''Enya'' is an approximate [[Transcription (linguistics)|transcription]] of how ''Eithne'' is pronounced in her native [[Irish language|Irish]], in the Donegal dialect.

Enya is one of the biggest selling female artists in history, and was the world's biggest selling female artist of 2001 and 2002. She has been unofficially ranked as the 12th biggest-selling female artist in the world in [[2006]].

==Biography==

[[Image:enyaclannad.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Enya on the cover of [[Clannad]]'s 1981 album "Fuaim".]]

===Musical Upbringing and Clannad===

Enya was born in [[Gweedore]], [[County Donegal]], in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] in 1961 to a musical family, the fourth youngest of nine children. Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the [[Slieve Foy Band]] before opening a pub, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at the Gweedore Comprehensive School. Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band [[An Clann As Dobhair]] in 1968. They renamed the band [[Clannad]] in the 1970s.

In 1980, Enya worked with [[Clannad]], the band composed of her siblings [[Máire Brennan|Máire (Moya)]], [[Pól Brennan|Pól]], and [[Ciarán Brennan|Ciarán]] and twin uncles [[Noel Duggan|Noel]] and [[Padraig Duggan]]. Enya played the [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]] and provided backing vocals on their albums ''[[Crann Úll]]'' (1980) and ''[[Fuaim]]'' (1981), although she was never officially a member of the group. In 1982, shortly before Clannad became famous for "[[Theme From Harry's Game]]," producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Enya joined him to start her own solo career.

===Solo Career===

Enya, working with Nicky and his wife Roma, recorded two solo instrumental songs called "An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian" ("The Solar Wind") and "Miss Clare Remembers" that were released on the 1983 album ''[[Touch Travel]]''. She was first credited as ''Enya'' (as opposed to Eithne) for writing some of the music for the [[1984 in film|1984]] movie ''[[The Frog Prince (film)|The Frog Prince]]'' which was released on a soundtrack album [[The Frog Prince (album)|of the same title]]. Another early appearance on record followed in 1987, where Enya provided spoken (not sung) vocals on [[Sinéad O'Connor]]'s debut album, ''[[The Lion and the Cobra]]''. The title of the album is a partial English translation of Enya's Gaelic reading of [[Psalms]] 91:11-13 on the song "Never Get Old".

Enya was contracted to provide music for the soundtrack of the 1986 [[BBC]] [[television documentary]] ''[[The Celts]]''. The music she produced was featured on her first solo album, ''[[Enya (album)|Enya]]'' (1987), but it attracted little attention at the time. The song "Boadicea" from this album would later be sampled by [[The Fugees]] on their single "Ready or Not" (1996), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by [[Mario Winans]], who did give her credit (the Winans track, "I Don't Wanna Know" which features a [[rapping|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).

[[Image:Enya2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Watermark'', Enya's breakthrough album.]]

===International Breakthrough===

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album ''[[Watermark (album)|Watermark]]'', which featured the hit song "[[Orinoco Flow]]" (sometimes known as "Sail Away"). "Orinoco Flow" topped the charts in the [[United Kingdom]], and the album sold eight million copies.

Three years later, she followed with another hit album, ''[[Shepherd Moons]]'', which sold ten million copies and earned Enya her first [[Grammy Award]]. The songs "On Your Shore" and "Exile" (from ''Watermark'') and "Epona" (from ''Enya'') were featured in the 1991 film ''[[L.A. Story]]''. "Ebudae" was also featured on the soundtrack to the [[Robin Williams]] film ''[[Toys_(1992_film)|Toys]]'', while the 1990 film ''[[Green Card (film)|Green Card]]'' had "River", "Watermark", and "Storms In Africa"<ref name="">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099699/soundtrack |title=Soundtracks for Green Card (1990) |accessdate=2007-02-14 |work=[[Internet Movie Database|IMDb]]}}</ref>. "[[Book Of Days]]" was featured prominently in the movie [[Far and Away]].

In 1992 a remastered version of the ''Enya'' album was released as ''[[The Celts (album)|The Celts]]'' including a longer, modified version of "Portrait (Out of the Blue)". Four years after ''Shepherd Moons'', she released the Grammy-winning ''[[The Memory of Trees]]'' (1995).

In 1997, Enya released her greatest hits collection, ''[[Paint The Sky With Stars|Paint The Sky With Stars: The Best of Enya]]'', which featured two new songs: "Paint the Sky With Stars" and "Only If...". She was offered the chance to compose the score for [[James Cameron]]'s [[1997 in film|1997]] film ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'', but declined. Cameron subsequently hired composer [[James Horner]] and asked him to adapt Enya's style for his score. The eventual choice of Norwegian vocalist [[Sissel Kyrkjebø]], whose style is similar to Enya's, resulted in work that some sources erroneously credited to Enya, although in interviews, the songs were officially credited as the sound of [[Clannad]]. A 1989 recording of Enya singing a Gaelic version of "Silent Night" ("Oíche Chiúin") has been reissued many times over the years, including ''The Christmas EP'' (which otherwise contained several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya) and the 1997 edition of the charity album ''[[A Very Special Christmas]]''.

[[Image:Enya3.jpg|left|thumb|250px|''Shepherd Moons'', the album that garnered Enya her first Grammy.]]

===Return and 'A Day Without Rain'===

Following a five-year break, she released the Grammy winning ''[[A Day Without Rain]]'' in 2000 featuring 37 minutes of new material (34 minutes on the US version). The album is Enya's most successful to date, peaking at #2 on the US Billboard Album charts. After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], her song "Only Time" (from ''A Day Without Rain'') was used as a backdrop in many radio and TV reports about the attacks. She initially frowned upon this use, especially when many bootlegged versions of "Only Time" mixed with sound effects from the attack began to appear.

Enya eventually agreed to release a special edition of the song with funds going to the families of victims. Many Enya fans, however, are resentful that her music has been linked with the attacks; an example of this occurred on a 2002 appearance on [[CNN]]'s ''[[Larry King Live]]'' when images of battle in [[Afghanistan]] were shown on screen as she performed "[[May It Be]]", a song with little war connection. This sparked some complaints within Enya's fan community.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}

Enya is self-admittedly a slow worker when it comes to composing music. As a result, fans have had to wait as long as five years between albums. In September 2004, a new song, set to words from a Japanese poem Roma Ryan had written and called "Sumiregusa" ("Wild Violet") was unveiled in [[Japan]] as part of an advertising campaign for [[Panasonic]]. In announcing the new recording, [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Music Japan]] stated that Enya's next album was scheduled for release (in Japan at least) in mid-November. Enya issued a press release on her official Web site on [[19 September]] stating that this was a mistake and no new album was immediately forthcoming.

Enya was awarded the ''World's Best-Selling Irish Act'' award at the [[World Music Awards]] in [[London]] on [[19 November]], [[2006]]. On [[February 11]], [[2007]] ''[[Amarantine (album)|Amarantine]]'' won Enya her fourth [[Grammy]] when it was awarded the [[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album|Best New Age Album]] award.

[[Image:Enya_-_Amarantine.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Amarantine'', Enya's most recent album. Fourth Grammy Award.]]

===Recent Releases===

In November of 2005, a new album, entitled ''[[Amarantine (album)|Amarantine]]'', was released. It won the [[Grammy Award]] for ''[[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album|Best New Age Album]]'' for 2007.

In 2006, Enya released several [[Christmas]]-themed CDs with newly recorded material. On October 10, 2006, ''Sounds of the Season'' was released containing six songs: the previously released "Oíche Chiúin" (a.k.a. "[[Silent Night (song)|Silent Night]]") and "Amid the Falling Snow", new recordings of the standards "[[Adeste Fideles]]" (a.k.a. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful") and "[[We Wish You a Merry Christmas]]" as well as two original songs, "Christmas Secrets" and "The Magic of the Night". This CD was released only in the [[United States]] in an exclusive partnership with the [[NBC]] television network and the [[Target Corporation|Target]] department store chain.

In later November two new editions of ''Amarantine'' were released. In North America, it was reissued as ''Amarantine - Special Christmas Edition'' with a second disc containing the four new Christmas songs previously issued on ''Sounds of the Season'' (the original album already had "Amid the Falling Snow" while "Oíche Chiúin" is a recording dating back to 1988 which had already been featured on numerous collections). The UK received a deluxe version of this release (''Amarantine - The UK Special Edition'') which also included three postcards and a copy of Roma Ryan's book ''Water Shows the Hidden Heart'' which is referenced on the original album. Canadian fans could choose from the ''Special Christmas Edition'' of ''Amarantine'', or an EP entitled ''Christmas Secrets'' which only contained the four new songs.

Coinciding with these releases was the relaunch of Enya's official website on Nov. 2, 2006. On November 16, 2006 Enya mentioned on ITV1's that she is working on a new album. A month later, in a Japanese interview Enya said that the album will be a complete Christmas album and it will be released in the winter of 2007. There is no schedule for the release date itself.

==Musical Style and Other Projects==

On her latest album, ''Amarantine'', Enya sings in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[Loxian]], a language invented by [[Roma Ryan]]. A number of Enya's songs are sung entirely in [[Irish language|Irish]] or [[Latin]], while most of her songs are sung in [[English language|English]]. Enya has also sung songs written entirely or partially in [[Welsh language|Welsh]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]] and even [[languages of Middle-earth|languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien]]. Enya has performed songs relating to [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', including 1991's "[[Lothlórien]]" (instrumental), 2001's "[[May It Be]]" (sung in English and [[Quenya]]), and "Aníron" (in [[Sindarin]])&mdash;the last two which she composed appearing on the soundtrack of [[Peter Jackson]]'s movie ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''.

Enya has given several live performances on various television shows, events and ceremonies (her most recent appearance was in Gaoth Dobhair in the summer of 2005, which coincided with a tribute event to the Brennan family that took place in Letterkenny), but she has yet to do a concert. She has said, though, that she would love to do it some day, and would consider it to be a great challenge.

Although her Grammys were for "Best [[New Age music|New Age]] Album", Enya does not personally classify her music as belonging to the New Age [[genre]]. When asked what genre she would classify her music as belonging to, she simply replies, "Enya".

==Selected discography==

{{dablink|For a full listing of albums, singles and chart positions see [[Enya discography]].}}

===Albums===

[[Image:Enya22.jpg|right|thumb|200px|''Enya: The Video Collection'' featues all of Enya's music videos as well as interviews and clips from live performances. Released only in Asia and Europe. US Region 1 release TBA.]]

Title + US Chart Positions

1. [[Image:Enya1.jpg|50px]] ''[[Enya (album)|Enya]]'' (1987)

2. [[Image:Enya2.jpg|50px]] ''[[Watermark (album)|Watermark]]'' US#25 (1988)

3. [[Image:Enya3.jpg|50px]] ''[[Shepherd Moons]]'' US#17 (1991)

4. [[Image:Enya4.jpg|50px]] ''[[The Celts (album)|The Celts]]'' (1992)

5. [[Image:Enya5.jpg|50px]] ''[[The Memory of Trees]]'' US#9 (1995)

6. [[Image:Enya6.jpg|50px]] ''[[Paint the Sky with Stars]]'' US#30 (1997)

7. [[Image:Enya7.jpg|50px]] ''[[A Day Without Rain]]'' US#2 (2000)

8. [[Image:Enya_-_Amarantine.jpg|50px]] ''[[Amarantine (album)|Amarantine]]'' US#6 (2005; expanded edition released 2006)

9. ''Untitled Christmas album'' (2007)

===DVD Releases===

In 2000, Warner Music released ''Enya: The Video Collection'' on [[DVD]] in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from "Orinoco Flow" up to and including "Wild Child", except for the video from "Book of Days", which was replaced by a live TV performance due to licensing complications relating to the video's use of footage from the film ''[[Far and Away]]''. This release was a successor to an earlier collection of videos entitled ''Moonshadows'', which was released on [[VHS]] and [[laserdisc]] in 1992. The DVD release also included interviews and features on the making of two videos.

[[Image:Enya5.jpg|left|thumb|250px|''The Memory of Trees'', Won Enya her second Grammy.]]

A North American ([[Region 1]]) release of the ''Video Collection'' DVD was announced on several occasions during 2000-2001, but did not occur; the reason for which has never been officially stated. At one point it was announced that the release had been delayed in order to allow the inclusion of the video for "May it Be", while the (now defunct) Enya.org fansite reported that a dispute over the sound quality of the release led to it being withdrawn.

As of 2005, ''The Collection'' was still considered to be "coming soon" by some North American online retailers although [[copyright infringement|bootleg]] copies from Asia have circulated at the retail level in some parts of Region 1 since 2000. Despite the release of a new CD by Enya in November 2005, the Region 1 edition of the DVD collection remains in limbo and there has been as yet no announcement of an updated DVD release in other parts of the world.

As of 2007, the only official release of an Enya video on DVD in North America has been "May it Be" which was included on the DVD release for ''The Fellowship of the Ring''.<br /><br />

===Misconceptions===

Many people incorrectly believe that Enya recorded the song "Adiemus".{{Fact|date=February 2007}} The song was actually recorded by British composer Karl Jenkins, on the first album in the [[Adiemus|eponymous series]], with vocals by [[Miriam Stockley]]. "Adiemus" is often distributed through [[file sharing]] networks with erroneous information saying that Enya recorded the song. Another song falsely attributed to Enya through file sharing is the song "Secret World" from [[Ronan Hardiman]]'s "Solas" album. Similarly, recordings by [[Loreena McKennitt]], [[Sissel Kyrkjebø]] and [[Enigma (musical project)|Enigma]], particularly those Sissel recorded for the [[Cl-like soundtrack to ''Titanic'', which later became known as the Sound of Clannad, not Enya. They have also been mistaken as [[Máire Brennan|Máire (Moya) Brennan]] (her sister) recordings. Many television advertisements have also been known to use music similar in sound and style to Enya's, with the official Enya website's FAQ's covering this point.

The [[Copyright infringement|bootleg]] compilation album [[Sumiregusa (album)|Sumiregusa]] was falsely credited to Enya.

Finally, a small group of people seem to believe that Enya was killed in a car crash in February of 2006 when a guard rail pierced through her windshield. This rumor is false and unfounded.

===Personal life===

Enya is a very private person who tries to keep her personal life apart from her musical career, even spending an estimated €250,000 on security measures for her home, Manderley Castle, Victoria Road [[Killiney]], [[County Dublin]] (named after her favourite book and black and white movie, ''[[Rebecca (film)|Rebecca]]''). Despite this, around mid-August 2005, there were two separate security breaches at Enya's home, and she was present on both occasions (her security system includes a [[panic room]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4305058.stm |title=Enya's castle invaded by stalker |accessdate=2007-02-14 |date=2005-10-03 |publisher=[[BBC News Online]]}}</ref>

In 2006, Enya made it to the number three spot in the ranks of wealthy [[United Kingdom|UK]] and [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] entertainers with an estimated fortune of €109 million (i.e., £75 million or $136 million). This was enough to take her to number 95 in the [[Sunday Times Rich List]] 2006 of the 250 Wealthiest Irish People.<ref>[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,29049,00.html] Times Online article - not found on [[14 February]] [[2007]]</ref>

==Awards==

[[Image:Enya7.jpg|right|thumb|250px|7th Album, ''A Day Without Rain'']]

Enya has won four [[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album | Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album]] to date:

1. [[Image:Enya3.jpg|50px]] [[Grammy Awards of 1993]],[[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album | Best New Age Album]] for [[Shepherd Moons]]

2. [[Image:Enya5.jpg|50px]] [[Grammy Awards of 1997]],[[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album | Best New Age Album]] for [[The Memory of Trees]]

3. [[Image:Enya7.jpg|50px]] [[Grammy Awards of 2002]],[[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album | Best New Age Album]] for [[A Day Without Rain]]

4. [[Image:Enya_-_Amarantine.jpg|50px]] [[Grammy Awards of 2007]],[[Grammy Award for Best New Age Album | Best New Age Album]] for [[Amarantine (album)|Amarantine]]

Also, "May It Be" was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Song at the 2002 ceremonies, but it lost to [[Randy Newman]]'s "If I Didn't Have You" from ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]''

==Trivia==

*The [[asteroid]] [[6433 Enya]] is [[List of asteroids named after people|named]] after her.

*The [[B-Side]] single "Eclipse" is actually a reversed and modified version of Enya's song "Deireadh An Tuath", from the 1987 album 'Enya'.

*Enya loves [[cat]]s. In an interview published in 1988, asked about pets she replied: "I've got a cat. I love cats, at one stage I had 12. It was just bliss. They'd all lie around in the sun and then come up and climb around my neck."<ref>''Number One'' magazine, [[2 November]] [[1988]]</ref>

*Enya's favourite book is "The Lord of The Rings."

*Enya has her own studio named "Aigle"-French for "Eagle".

*The [[Atom and His Package]] song "Pumping Iron For Enya" cronicals Adam Goren's attempts to get in shape in hopes to impress Enya

==See also==

*[[Best selling music artists]]

*[[New Age music]]

==Notes==

<references/>

==References==

*[http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=4557&model.vnuAlbumId=744731 Billboard Album Rankings - Enya]

*[http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=4557&model.vnuAlbumId=744731 Billboard Singles Rankings - Enya]

*[http://discography.enya.com/tracks/E02.asp 'Eclipse' reversal referenced on official Enya site]

*[http://unity.enya.com/index.php?showtopic=14374 Songs/CDs That Are Not By Enya]

==External links==

{{wikiquote}}

*[http://www.enya.com/ Official website]

*[http://www.clannad.nl/ The Clannad Newsblog] - Best for Enya News

*[http://www.enya-france.com/ Manderlay, le Fan Club francophone des fans d'Enya]

*[http://unity.enya.com/ Unity - the Official Enya Forum]

*{{imdb name | id = 0258216 | name = Enya }}

*[http://www.lyricsday.com/Enya-lyrics-song-9627.html Enya Lyrics] at Lyricsday.com

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