Enya

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Enya / ɛnʲə / (* 17th May 1961 as Eithne Ní Pádraigín Bhraonáin / ɛnʲə pˠɑːd̺.ɾˠɪɡʲiːnʲ NI vɾˠiːn̪ˠaːn / in Gaoth Dobhair , County Donegal ) is an Irish New Age - musician , singer and songwriter . By 2008 she had sold over 70 million albums worldwide.

Life

Enya is the sixth of the nine children of Leo and Maire (called Baba) Brennan. The spelling Enya is based on the Anglicisation of the frequent Irish first name Eithne, i.e. its alignment to the English phonography with unchanged pronunciation. It means "little fire". She has four sisters, including singer Moya , and four brothers, including singer Pól . She spent her childhood in Gaoth Dobhair . Until the age of three, Enya grew up in a purely Irish-speaking environment.

At the age of eleven, she and her sisters began to play the piano in a monastery , mainly classical music . From the age of 11 to 17 she attended a Catholic school in Milford run by the Loreto Sisters . After finishing school, she joined her family's band, Clannad . In 1982 she left the group together with Nicky Ryan , the band's producer at the time, and from then on lived with him and his wife Roma in a house in Artane , north of Dublin . Enya has lived in Dublin since 1997 in a small castle called Manderley Castle (formerly Ayesha Castle), named after the castle in her favorite film Rebecca . She rarely gives interviews.

music

At Clannad , Enya played with three siblings and their two uncles. After leaving the band, she started her solo career in the mid-1980s. The lyrics for Enya's title are written by Roma Ryan and her husband Nicky Ryan is responsible for the production . Her international breakthrough came in 1988 with the single Orinoco Flow (Sail away) , which was number 1 in Great Britain and number 2 in Germany. The accompanying album Watermark was also a top 10 success in Europe. Like Watermark , Enya's other albums, Shepherd Moons (1991), The Celts (originally released in 1986, re-released internationally in 1992), The Memory of Trees (1995) and the greatest hits record Paint the Sky with Stars (1997) received gold or platinum in the UK, Germany and also the USA.

Only Time , which is usedto background music for a key scenein the feature film Sweet November , was initially not very successful. The title became internationally known through the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , when it was used as background music for the television broadcast . As a result, Only Time reached the top 10 of the US Billboard charts , while the accompanying album A Day Without Rain also entered the charts again and climbed to number 2. In Germany, too, this triggered renewed demand for the piece, so that Only Time made it back to number 1 in the German single charts. Just a few weeks later, the album A Day Without Rain also topped the charts. The single and album did not have nearly this success in other important markets such as the United Kingdom , France or Australia . In 2001, Enya received the echo for the most successful international single on the German market and another nomination for the most successful album. Enya donated the income from the song to the survivors of the attack victims and the New York firefighters .

In January 2002 she released May It Be , the theme song of the first part of the film series The Lord of the Rings . While the single almost reached the top 50 in Great Britain, its new popularity continued in Germany: May It Be went straight to number 1 in the German single charts. The play was also nominated for an Oscar . In 2005, Enya released her album Amarantine , on which the Loxian language developed by Roma Ryan was used for the first time . On November 20, 2009, her album The Very Best Of , a compilation of her greatest successes selected by Enya, was released .

Her instrumental piece Boadicea was used succinctly as a sample in two number one hits: In Ready or Not by the Fugees (1996) and in I Don't Wanna Know by Mario Winans featuring P. Diddy and Enya. In addition, Boadicea was also used for the song Secret Love by Magnetic Pulstar and can be heard in the soundtrack of the movie Sleepwalker . The song Orinoco Flow from the album Watermark (1988) is because of the chorus “Sail Away” and the verses typical for cruises “Let me sail, let me sail, let the Orinoco flow […] From Bissau to Palau in the shade of Avalon. From Fiji to Tiree and the isles of Ebony. From Peru to Cebu, feel the power of Babylon. From Bali to Cali, far beneath the Coral Sea “is the ship's departure melody of the AIDA fleet, which, however, may only be used in a cover version at the request of the singer.

The titles "Caribbean Blue" and "Only Time" were used in the Marvel comic film Deadpool 2 . Marvel, as producer, used the title as a contrast to the film, because in both cases there are fight scenes. “Caribbean Blue” is used in the super duper cut when Deadpool takes out Asian villains in a bathhouse. "Only Time", however, in the fight of Juggernaut, when he destroyed the convoy.

Enya's music videos show a strong connection to nature, a strong reference to the sea and an antiquated, romantic weakness. In some videos (especially those made in the 1980s and early 1990s) actors like Enya dress themselves in a fashion that was common in Victorian times . In general, your videos have a slow pace, sometimes also slow motion effects. With a seven-year gap to its predecessor, Enya's new album, Dark Sky Island , was released on November 20, 2015 . In terms of music, this brings her closer to her first album Watermark .

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
1987	Enya / The Celts ( remastered version by Enya )	DE70 gold (9 weeks)DE	-	-	UK10 platinum (29 weeks)UK	US- × 2 Double platinum US	IE- 1IE	First published: March 4, 1987 (Enya) First published: November 6, 1992 (The Celts) Sales: + 8,500,000
1988	Watermark	DE6th platinum (18 weeks)DE	AT15 (8 weeks) AT	CH1 platinum (17 weeks)CH	UK5 × 4 Quadruple platinum (99 weeks)UK	US25th × 4 Quadruple platinum (39 weeks)US	IE- 1IE	First published: September 19, 1988 Sales: + 8,145,000
1991	Shepherd Moons	DE21st gold (21 weeks)DE	AT31 (12 weeks) AT	CH13 gold (14 weeks)CH	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (110 weeks)UK	US17th × 5 Quintuple platinum (238 weeks)US	IE- 1 platinum IE	First published: October 31, 1991 Sales: + 13,000,000
1995	The Memory Of Trees	DE4th gold (36 weeks)DE	AT3 platinum (16 weeks)AT	CH3 (24 weeks) CH	UK5 × 2 Double platinum (31 weeks)UK	US9 × 3 Triple platinum (66 weeks)US	IE- 1IE	First published: November 17, 1995 Sales: + 6,335,000
2000	A day without rain	DE1 × 3 Triple platinum (65 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (51 weeks)AT	CH2 × 2 Double platinum (55 weeks)CH	UK6th × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)UK	US2 × 7 Seven times platinum (103 weeks)US	IE7 (14 weeks) IE	First published: November 21, 2000 Sales: + 16,000,000
2005	Amarantine	DE3 × 2 Double platinum (30 weeks)DE	AT4 (26 weeks) AT	CH3 × 2 Double platinum (29 weeks)CH	UK8th platinum (18 weeks)UK	US6th platinum (33 weeks)US	IE15th × 2 Double platinum (15 weeks)IE	First published: November 18, 2005 Sales: + 2,865,000
2008	And Winter Came ...	DE3 × 3 Triple gold (21 weeks)DE	AT6th gold (17 weeks)AT	CH3 platinum (19 weeks)CH	UK6th gold (14 weeks)UK	US8th gold (29 weeks)US	IE13 platinum (11 weeks)IE	First published: November 7th, 2008 Sales: + 2,100,000
2015	Dark Sky Island	DE3 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT6 (12 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (21 weeks)CH	UK4th gold (19 weeks)UK	US8 (9 weeks) US	IE7 (9 weeks) IE	First published: November 20, 2015 Sales: + 903,000

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Television appearances

Enya appeared in 1997 on the ARD program Die José Carreras Gala in 1997 with the single Only If , where she also received a prize. Furthermore, she was a guest on the Austrian talk show Vera in January 2001 and presented her new album there. On January 21, 2006 she presented in Karlsruhe in the ARD Saturday evening show Do you understand fun? her single Amarantine . She also appeared on Top of the Pops with Orinoco Flow and Book of Days . January 31, 2009 Enya joined Salzburg in the ZDF telecast Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel , entitled My! My! Time Flies! on.

With Anywhere Is she also appeared in front of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican in December 1995 .

Awards

• 1992: Grammy Award for the album Shepherd Moons in the category "Best New Age Album".
• 1996: Grammy Award for the album The Memory of Trees in the category "Best New Age Album".
• 2002: Grammy Award for the album A Day Without Rain in the category "Best New Age Album".
• 2002: Echo for Only Time
• 2006: World Music Award in the World's Best-Selling Irish Act category
• 2007: Grammy Award for the album Amarantine in the category Best New Age Album .
• 2007: Honorary Doctorate ("Doctor of Letters") from the National University of Galway
• 2007: Honorary doctorate ("Doctor of Letters") from the University of Ulster

Web links

Commons : Enya  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Enya at Discogs (English)
• Enya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Enya on MusicBrainz (English)
• Enya at laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on Enya's website ( memento of the original from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Timothy White: Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., November 25, 1995 ( google.de [accessed January 24, 2019]).
3. ↑ The Song of September 11th: "Only Time" by Enya. (No longer available online.) SWR3, September 30, 2013, archived from the original on February 28, 2014 ; accessed on February 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Schiffsauslaufs-Musik [1] of October 13, 2018
5. ↑ Music from Deadpool 2. Retrieved December 5, 2019 (American English). 
6. ↑ Music from Deadpool 2. Retrieved August 10, 2019 (American English). 
7. ↑ BBC interview of November 3, 2015
8. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US IE1 IE2 ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ UU Honors Musician Enya. (No longer available online.) News.ulster.ac.uk, July 11, 2007, archived from the original on February 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 13, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Martin Cizmar: Enya's Greatest Hits Coming Soon… Wait, Enya Had Hits? In: Phoenix News Time. November 10, 2009, accessed March 13, 2016 . 
11. ↑ http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2000&year=2000&week=47
12. ↑ http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2001&year=2001&week=8
13. ^ Yessica Flores: Enya en la música. In: Esmas Musicas. April 4, 2013, accessed March 13, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Dark Sky Island sales ; Chart news on Twitter
15. ↑ Enya appeared in 1995 during the visit of Pope John Paul II.
16. ↑ Honorary doctorate ( Doctor of Letters ) from the National University of Galway ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ Honorary doctorate ("Doctor of Letters") from the University of Ulster ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.