so sometimes it’s only maybe been two interviews, and it could be to London and the availability to get journalists to go there. I’ve already been to New York, America, Germany, London. “I’ve done interviews for all the albums,” she protests, “but I suppose it depends on where I am. Not to be blunt about it, but why has she decided to talk to the press this time around? She is here to talk about her forthcoming eighth album Dark Sky Island, and today she has been conducting her first Irish interviews in seven years.
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She doesn’t look like she’s aged in the past 20 years, the same pale skin and dark eyes steadily holding your gaze as she pulls up a pew on the sofa, only the barest trace of her Donegal accent still audible in her voice. Or at least as normal as you might expect Ireland’s biggest-selling solo artist of all time to be. So when you’re half-expecting a diva with an intense stare, flowing sleeves and an entourage of assistants throwing rose petals at her feet to waltz boldly into the plush suite of a Dublin 4 hotel, you’re rather taken aback by the petite, soft-spoken and smiling middle-aged woman who greets you with a warm handshake instead. That maxim has never been more true than in the case of Enya, who – if you were to believe half of what you hear – only ventures outside of her Killiney castle once every seven years to bestow an album upon her adoring public, before disappearing back into the mist to the sound of crying angels. Other posts you may like: Uplifting quotes about music and life, Treat your body like a Temple, Enigma, Fantastic New age music Singers.The less you tell people, the more they want to know. Until then, we can sail, we can sail, we can stear, we can near… While marveling at every new achievement of Enya’s and the ease with which the scales new musical heights, the only complaint one could have is the time it has taken for a new album to come out.
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No wonder that she was chosen to sing and perform the songs “Aníron” and “May It Be” for the movie Lord of the Rings, the latter of which was nominated for an Academy Award. Tolkien’s fictitious languages in “Lothlórien” (1991). Success followed with albums such as Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995), A Day Without Rain (1995), And Winter Came… (2008), featuring Enya singing in English, Latin, Irish, Welsh, Spanish, French and even J.R.R. Here, she met producer Nicky Ryan and his wife Roma Ryan and would in 1982 form the trio that is responsible for the brand “ Enya” – Enya as vocalists and percussionist, Nicky as producer and Roma as lyricist who even invented her own language, Loxian, sung by Enya on the album Amarantine (2005). Thus, to say that music played an important role in Enya’s life would be an understatement – it rather was as important as the air she breathed.įrom singing in her mother’s church choir from an early age, it was just a small step to joining her siblings in their band Clannad in 1980 after she had just finished college, studying music and watercolor painting. Even her grandparents had played in a band that toured through Ireland her father had played in a band before he became the owner of Leo’s Tavern, and so did her mother who also taught music.
Rather describing her style simply as “Enya”, she credits her background and upbringing in Irish, church and classical music for her unique style.Īs the sixth of nine children, having four brothers and four sisters, Enya was born into a musical family in Gweedore, Ireland on 17th May 1961 (round birthday coming up soon!). Though often classified as a mix between world music and Celtic New Age, Enya refuses to accept these labels.
In fact, her music and lyrics (or often lack thereof) has inspired my own music and I feel honored whenever my voice and musical style are compared to hers. With the song “Cursum Perficio”, Enya not only made us listen to a song completely sung in Latin, but also brave the lyrics so we could sing along. Enya’s clear and steady, yet also slightly haunting voice immediately appealed to the world and made us want more. When “Orinoco Flow” from the album Watermark was released in 1988, it was an instant success because it was unlike anything we had ever heard. It’s hard to listen to any of Enya’s songs and forget about them.
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