Enya has won several awards throughout her career, 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 is Ireland's biggest selling solo artist and second overall behind U2, with a discography that has sold 26.5 million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 80 million albums worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
(2008), Enya took an extended break from music she returned in 2012 and released Dark Sky Island (2015).Įnya is known for her private lifestyle and has yet to undergo a concert tour.
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 11 September 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 its international top 10 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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She has sung in ten languages.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). Enya developed her distinct sound over the following four years with multi-tracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, and folk music. She left 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 in County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. Enya( Enya Patricia Brennan )【 302 songs in total 】 Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan born ), better known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, musician, and producer.
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