Enya leaving Clannad had already recorded two albums with them: Crann Úll and Fuaim. This worsened Ciarán's relations with Moya and Pól, the situation worsened, and he left the band. Ryan was Clannad's manager and producer some disagreements in Nicky's history with Ciarán, Enya's brother, caused a bad relationship between them, to the point that in 1982 Ciarán made Nicky leave the position of manager of the group. She accepted immediately and joined at the age of 18. In 1979, then-Clannad producer Nicky Ryan, offered Enya a spot in the band. The group achieved great recognition in their country. In 1968 his brothers Pól and Ciarán, his sister Máire (or Moya ) and his twin uncles Noel and Padraig Duggan formed a band that they called An Clann As Dobhar, which was renamed Clannad (as a fusion of their Irish name: An Clann a s d obhar) in 1970. She is the sixth of nine siblings ( Máire, Ciarán, Pól, Deirdre, Léon, Bartley, Olive and Bridin). Her parents are Leo Brennan and Máire Duggan, who met playing in an Irish band called Slieve Foy at Leo's Tavern (" Leo's Tavern "), a pub founded by Enya's own father. Biography Musical beginnings in Clannadįaçade of Leo's Tavern (" Leo's Tavern "), founded by Enya's father, where Clannad and Enya's musical careers began. The name Enya is therefore not a pseudonym, but the adaptation to English phonetics and spelling (Britishization) of the Irish feminine name Eithne.
The birth name of the singer is Eithne Ní Bhraonáin ( AFI : / ɛnʲə Ní vˠɾˠiːn̪ˠaːnʲ / ) in Irish Gaelic, but to facilitate their often pronunciation using a version britanizada of the same: by British custom uses masculine prefix " Or '",' son of ', instead of the feminine" Ni' ", 'daughter of', resulting in Enya O'Brennan, as presented in her last public appearance, or Enya Brennan, using her surname like his siblings without the Irish patronymic prefix 'O'. His work has earned, among many other recognitions, the nomination for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy for his song " May It Be ", which he composed for the film The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (2001). The total sales of his albums in 2008 have reached the sum of 70 million units. She is the top-selling Irish solo artist, as well as officially the second largest exporting Irish artist after the band U2.
He maintained his success in the years 19 : his album A Day Without Rain, from 2000, reached the figure of 16 million units sold and was named the best-selling female artist of 2001. He has sung in ten different languages throughout his career, interpreting the lyrics of the lyricist Roma Ryan, mainly in her native language, Irish Gaelic and English, as well as Latin, Spanish, Japanese, French, the fictitious language Quenya and " Loxian ", a language constructed by Ryan herself, among others. With her album Watermark, released in 1988, she achieved international prominence, and Enya became known for her unique sound, characterized by the use of multiple "voice layers" synthesized from her own, folk melodies, synth backgrounds and ethereal reverberations.
Įnya began her musical career in 1979, when she briefly joined Clannad, a musical group made up of several of her brothers and uncles, before launching her solo career. Eithne Ni Bhraonáin ( Gweedore, Donegal, 17 of maypole of 1961 ), better known simply as Enya, she is a singer and songwriter Irish music new age.