The record, entitled Memory of Trees, was released in December of 1995. charts at number 17 and remained in the Top 200 for almost four years.Īgain, Enya was slow to follow up on the success of Shepherd Moons, spending nearly four years working on her fourth album. Shepherd Moons was even more successful than its predecessor, eventually selling over ten million copies worldwide it entered the U.S. She finally released Shepherd Moons, her follow-up to Watermark, in 1991. Enya spent the years following the success of Watermark rather quietly her most notable appearance was a cameo on Sinéad O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. "Orinoco Flow," the first single, became a number one hit in Britain, helping the album eventually sell eight million copies worldwide. The soundtrack was released in 1986 as her eponymous solo album.Įnya didn't receive much notice, but Enya and the Ryans' second effort, Watermark, became a surprise hit upon its release in 1988.
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Within a few years she was commissioned, along with producer/arranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan, to provide the score for a BBC-TV series called The Celts. In 1982, she left Clannad, claiming that she was uninterested in following the pop direction the group had begun to pursue. Enya joined the band as a keyboardist in 1979, and contributed to several of the group's popular television soundtracks. Most important to Enya's career were her siblings, who formed Clannad in 1976 with several of their uncles. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, a popular Irish show band her mother was an amateur musician. Enya's vocal range is mezzo-soprano.Įnya was born into a musical family.
Since then she has released a further nine albums, sold over 75 million albums worldwide and is known for performing in 10 different languages. Her album Watermark, which was released in 1988, propelled her to international recognition and she became known for her unique sound, which is characterized by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesized backdrops and ethereal reverberations. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to pursue her solo career. Eithne Patricia Nà Bhraonáin (born in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland), known simply as Enya, is a Grammy award winning and Academy award nominated Irish singer, instrumentalist and composer.
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