Enya

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Works

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Film & TV

Acting · Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland

Enya is an Irish singer, songwriter, musician and producer, born Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. She studied classical music at college and under private tuition. Her professional music career began at 18 when she joined members of her family in the band Clannad in 1980. She left after two years to pursue a successful solo career.

Known for

• МУЗ КЛИПЫ - 90х — Self (archive footage)2021
• Skrivesperre — Aune2011
• The Very Best of Enya — Self (archive footage)2009
• Only Time: The Making of the Video2009
• The Making of Caribbean Blue2009
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self2007
• Folk Britannia — Self (archival footage)2006
• Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel — Self2004
• Enya: The Video Collection — Self (archive footage)2001
• Enya: A Life in Music — Self2001

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Ireland

Active from

1961

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,097,372

Total plays

87,899,296

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961), anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan and known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer, composer, and musician. She is among the best-selling music artists from Ireland, with estimated worldwide album sales exceeding 80 million. Her music is characterised by extensive vocal layering, the use of reverberation, and the incorporation of elements from Celtic, classical, folk, ambient, and other musical traditions. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Enya">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Microplastics in freshwaters and drinking water: Critical review and assessment of data quality

   · 2019 · cited 2,234x

2. The Infrared Astronomical Mission AKARI

   · 2007 · cited 702x

3. Safety and immunogenicity of seven COVID-19 vaccines as a third dose (booster) following two doses of ChAdOx1 nCov-19 or BNT162b2 in the UK (COV-BOOST): a blinded, multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 2 trial

   · 2021 · cited 614x

4. Quality Criteria for the Analysis of Microplastic in Biota Samples: A Critical Review

   · 2018 · cited 523x

5. Reverberation Measurements of the Inner Radius of the Dust Torus in Nearby Seyfert 1 Galaxies

   · 2006 · cited 372x

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Quotes

• “I think they find it — they find me quite confusing, because — they know the music, but they don't know anything about me ... because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up ... making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.”
• “On the project The Celts I was asked to ... to write a song. And, at the time I was ... arranging with Nicky, and writing the music and performing ... so, no desire whatsoever to write lyrics!... But Roma was actually writing poetry at the time, and she was involved, with listening in the studio ... being the audience in the studio ... so she was involved with the project. So, it was very obvious that she would write the lyrics.”
• “There is no set sort of rules, or no set sort of formula to the way we work in the studio ... so it's difficult to know ... what we'll move on to next. We don't like to say, "Never, no we'd never do this" ... But, we ... like the setup as far as there's only three people in the studio ... because the work is very personal, very intimate, very emotional ... and that is very important to the album.”
• “I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal ... all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.”
• “For me, I've derived from religion ... what... I enjoy ... and it's to go to church, but usually ... when there's nobody else there. I just love that moment, ah, to just sit there. It's very peaceful, very calm, and very therapeutic, and it's ... wonderful.”
• “A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.”

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Key facts

Musical artist.background

person

Musical artist.name

Enya

Musical artist.image

Enya - The Orlando Sentinel (1989) (cropped).jpg

Musical artist.caption

Enya in 1988

Musical artist.native_name_lang

ga

Musical artist.birth_name

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin

Musical artist.birth_place

Dore, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland

Musical artist.years_active

1980–present

Musical artist.awards

(Full list here)

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Official website

35 years of Watermark - Enya

Rediscover the ambient beauty of Watermark on its 35th anniversary. Listen to the Dolby Atmos mix of Orinoco Flow and join the YouTube Watch Party to celebrate.

enya.com →

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Wikidata facts

Official website

enya.com

Image

Enya - The Orlando Sentinel (1989) (cropped).jpg

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