![]() At the age of four, began piano lessons and began learning English at primary school. Enya also participated in pantomimes at Gweedore Theatre and sang with her siblings in their mother's choir at St Mary's church in Derrybeg. ![]() Īt three-and-a-half years of age, she took part in her first singing competition at the annual Feis Ceoil music festival. Enya described her upbringing as "very quiet and happy". Aodh was also the founder of the Gweedore Theatre company. ![]() Enya's maternal grandfather Aodh, was the headmaster of the primary school in Dore where her grandmother was a teacher. "Ní Bhraonáin" translates to "daughter of Brennan". Her name is anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan, with "Enya" being the phonetic spelling of how "Eithne" is pronounced in her native Ulster dialect. Įnya grew up in Gweedore, a region where Irish is the primary language. Leo's Tavern, the pub owned by Enya's family, currently under the proprietorship of her younger brother Bartley. Enya's mother also taught music at Gweedore Community School. Baba Brennan (née Duggan born 1930) has remote Spanish roots with ancestors who settled on Tory Island and she was an amateur musician who played with the Slieve Foy Band. Leo Brennan (1925-2016) was the leader of an Irish showband named the Slieve Foy Band, before performing solo. In 1968, the couple took ownership of a pub in Meenaleck, naming it Leo's Tavern. Early life Enya's home area of Gweedore, pictured from above in 2008Įithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin was born in the Dore area of Gweedore, County Donegal, on, the sixth of nine children in the Brennan family of musicians born to Máire "Baba" and Leopold "Leo" Brennan. ![]() According to her sister Moya, Enya was recording music as of 2019. (2008), Enya took a four-year break from music, returning in 2012 to begin work on her eighth studio album Dark Sky Island (2015). After Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came. Sales of A Day Without Rain and its lead single, " Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in media coverage of the 9/11 attacks. This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995), and A Day Without Rain (2000). The success of Watermark (1988) propelled Enya to worldwide fame, helped mostly by the international hit single " Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)". She later signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her considerable artistic freedom and minimal interference. A selection of her pieces for The Celts were released as her debut album, Enya (1987). She composed most of the soundtrack and sang two songs intended for The Frog Prince (1985), and a body of work for the BBC documentary series The Celts (1986). The two earliest releases by Enya were instrumentals for the Touch Travel (1984) cassette compilation. Over the following four years, Enya developed her sound by combining multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of musical genres such as Celtic, classical, church, jazz, new age, world, pop, and Irish folk. She left Clannad in 1982 to pursue a solo career, working with the former Clannad manager and producer, Nicky Ryan, and his partner Roma, as their lyricist. In 1980, Enya (as Eithne Ní Bhraonáin) began her musical career playing alongside her family's Celtic folk band Clannad. She is noted for her modern Celtic music, and is the best-selling Irish solo artist (the second-best-selling Irish music act overall after the rock band U2).Įnya was raised in the Irish-speaking region of Gweedore. Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born ), mononymously known as Enya, is an Irish songstress and composer.
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