Enya
Enya
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin, known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer. Born and raised in County Donegal, Ireland, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic band Clannad, in 1980. She left the group in 1982 to pursue a solo career with producer and arranger Nicky Ryan and his wife, poet and lyricist Roma Ryan, developing her distinct sound of multi-tracked vocals, keyboard instruments, and elements of New age, Celtic, classical, church, and...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionWorld Music Singer
Date of Birth17 May 1961
CityGweedore, Ireland
CountryIreland
When there's a shadow, you follow the sun. When there is love, then you look for the one. And for the promises, there is the sky. And for the heavens are those who can fly.
One look at love and you may see it weaves a web over mystery, all ravelled threads can rend apart for hope has a place in the lover's heart. Hope has a place in a lover's heart.
Hope has a place in a lover's heart.
I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.
The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
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.
There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting.