She was first credited as Enya (as opposed to Eithne) for writing some of the music for the 1984 movie The Frog Prince, which was released on a soundtrack album of the same title. Enya then formed her own recording studio, named "Aigle", which is French for "eagle".Įnya recorded two solo instrumental pieces called "An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian" (Irish for "The Solar Wind") and "Miss Clare Remembers" that were released on the 1984 album Touch Travel. In 1982, shortly before Clannad became internationally renowned for "Theme From Harry's Game", producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Enya joined him to start her own solo career. During that same year, Enya was also a member of Ragairne, the band of Altan front-woman Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. Enya played the keyboard and provided backing vocals on their album Crann Úll (1980), although she was not officially a member of the group until the 1981 release Fuaim, when she appeared on the cover. In 1980, Enya worked with Clannad, the band composed of her siblings Máire (Moya), Pól, and Ciarán and twin uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan. They renamed the band Clannad in the 1970s. She attended Loreto Community School in Milford, County Donegal and then moved away to attend college wanting to become a classical pianist, continuing her studies in music and also studying watercolour painting.Įnya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhar in 1968. From a young age, Enya appeared in many pantomimes onstage at Gweedore's local theatre and sang with her siblings in her mother's choir at St Mary's Catholic Church, Derrybeg. Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue. She is part of an Irish-speaking, Catholic musical family, the sixth of nine children. Her work has earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination.Įithne Ni Bhraonain was born and brought up in Gweedore, County Donegal, in the northwest corner of Ireland.
Her record sales stand at more than 80 million worldwide, including over 26.5 million in album sales in the US, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. She is Ireland's best-selling solo musician. She received the world's best-selling female award at the 2001 World Music Awards. She has performed in 10 languages.Įnya continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan in addition, all Enya's albums from The Memory Of Trees onwards reached the top ten in the album charts for the US, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Australia. Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.
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She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1986 BBC series The Celts.
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