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Enya

Enya came from a musical family, her mother a music teacher and her father a musician adept at playing the various instruments like the saxophone and the clarinet. She is also the sister of Maire Brennan, former lead singer and harpist of Clannad.

Born Eithne Ni Bhraonain, Enya joined her brothers, sister, and several uncles in Clannad (Gaelic for 'family') in the 1970's. She was the group's keyboardist then.

These days, with the help of husband-and-wife team of producer Nicky Ryan, and lyricist Roma Ryan, Enya began her solo career with the score for the BBC-TV series, The Celts, in 1986. This was followed by Watermark in 1988, and a guest appearance on Sinead O'Connor's album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got.

From then on, Enya has gone on to create such excellent works such as Shepherd Moons in 1991 and Memory of Trees in 1995.

Enya's latest CD A Day Without Rain is now availalbe through the Celtic Cafe! Read what Amazon.com's Terry Wood has to say about it:

As each new Enya release has washed over all who have ears to hear, as each heaven-touched work leaves admirers sitting speechless in slack-jawed wonder, questions eventually come to mind: Might her layered, choral-like approach gradually become predictable or stale? Will she ever exhaust her deep reservoir of soul-stirring ideas? Remarkably, A Day Without Rain, Enya's fourth release since her 1988 breakthrough, Watermark, establishes new artistic heights for the gifted Irish vocalist and keyboardist. The project, polished and refined over a five-year period in the company of longtime collaborators Nicky Ryan (producer) and Roma Ryan (lyricist), may qualify as her best yet--a radiant, beatific collection of works that command attention with their cathedral-like resonance as they soothe your spirit with some of Enya's loveliest, most graceful voicings ever. The disc's opening three tracks (including the spellbinding "Only Time") form a gorgeous trilogy that suggest Enya has deepened her focus on the nexus where sophisticated pop and regal mysticism, the twin rivers of her singular sound, form a seamless intersection. The disc's gentle timbre is disturbed only once, and in memorable fashion, with "Tempus Vernum," a marshalling of mythic sonic forces that brings to mind the theme from the De Beers diamond commercial, but with a Celtic/Goth edge. Additional highlights abound. The closing "Lazy Days" will leave your soul dancing in a shower of flower petals and sunshine. A wonderful recording.
--Terry Wood

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