Roma Ryan

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Roma Shane Ryan was born in Belfast , Northern Ireland and is a writer, poet and writer of many lyrics for Irish musician and singer Eithne Ní Bhraonáin ( Enya ).

Youth and musical development

The birth of Roma Ryan's musical career is closely related to the Irish music group Clannad . Máire , Ciarán and Pól Ó Braonáin, who later became known under the stage names Moya, Kieran and Paul Brennan, founded the band with their uncles, the twins Noel and Patrick Duggan, which played traditional Irish songs with influences from American jazz and Folk played.

From 1980 the younger sister of the Braonáinz branch, Eithne, now known as Enya , also played in the group. Nick Ryan, Roma's husband, had been there as a technician since 1979.

The rise of the young musicians was similar to that of the Kelly Family in Germany; so the musicians first became known regionally as Die Familie von Gweedore and then called themselves “An Clann As Dobhair” (Die Familie von Dore) and have had an international response under the name Clannad since their European tour in the 80s. During this time Roma Ryan contributed the first lyrics for some of the group's songs. In February 1982 the band's keyboard player, Eithne Ní Braonáin, and Nick left the band as a sound engineer and settled in the north of Dublin , where they rented a house in the small town of Artane .

Roma Ryan's husband decided to install their own music recording technology in their shared home, the Aigle Recording Studio . The in-house technology enabled the three to work together extremely effectively, as Roma Ryan wrote the lyrics, Eithne Ní Braonáin wrote the compositions and the pieces were then carefully recorded and sound-mixed in their own studio. During this time, the ideas for the backgrounds of later successful pieces emerged, which, through novel effects, gave the compositions sung by Eithne Ní Braonáin in her clear voice their own musical and atmospheric transparency, which ultimately contributed to the success of later publications.

During this time, the still experimental projects of the three participants took on their own style that was difficult to copy. Roma Ryan wrote the first texts in Gaelic , which would later become the trademark of the formation. In the course of the years Celtic , Welsh and Catalan poetry was added, which is based on epochal models. There were also songs written in Japanese. Verses like those of Afer Ventus, Pax Deorum or Cursum Perficio were written in Latin. Roma Ryan also brought her poems to life through literary languages ​​such as Elvish , and the atmosphere was accompanied by sound and effects processing by Nick Ryan.

Since that time, the name Enya no longer stands - as is often assumed - for Eithne Ní Braonáin alone, but for the co-production:

"Eithne Ní Braonáin (compositions and arrangements), Roma Ryan (lyrics), and Nick Ryan (music production and mix)"

The interpreter Braonáin, who appears as the interpreter of the “Label Enya”, always emphasized this in statements of her success, that the end product would not even come close to without the participation of the others, and that Enya should be understood as a project of the triple formation.

International rise

At Ryan's suggestion to turn Enya's very first instrumental pieces into a film soundtrack, contact was made with David Puttman . And so Enya was able to contribute a large number of songs to the soundtrack of "The Frog Prince".

Roma Ryan and her husband created the first product of their collaboration in 1985, the music for the US film "The French Lesson". But the breakthrough came in the following year, with the order of the music for the BBC documentation "The Celts" ( The Celts ), in which Roma Ryan proved its qualities as a poet of minority languages to the test the first time.

In 1987 most of the lyrics were written for "Watermark", which WEA Music only brought onto the music market a year later. Ryan also wrote the verses for the song "Orinoco Flow", through which the trio achieved worldwide attention. From this point on, the way forward was mapped out - every record was a success.

“ Only Time ” achieved a tragic level of awareness . The song, written by Roma Ryan, was decoupled from the album "A Day Without Rain" on September 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks in the United States , accompanied by comments from reports by US radio stations on the events of the time and remixed. In this version used by radio stations around the world as the anthem against terror, the level of awareness of the author Ryan extends to all continents because of this popular remix alone.

As the basis for creating Amarantine , Roma Ryan created the loxic language spoken by the inhabitants of a distant, previously unknown planet. Inspired by JRR Tolkien's Elvish , she created an independent alphabet for this project and composed the resulting sparse “vocabulary of loxic” texts for three songs, which were translated into English with the album, documented in a book entitled “Water Shows the Hidden Heart ".

music

Discography

  • October 14, 1985 The Frog Prince Cassette vinyl album
  • October 28, 1988 Watermark vinyl album
  • October 31, 1991 Shepherd Moons CD album
  • 20th November 1992 The Celts CD album
  • November 24th 1995 The Memory Of Trees CD album
  • November 7th 1997 Paint The Sky With Stars CD album
  • December 1, 1997 A Box Of Dreams (Box-Set) CD album
  • November 20, 2000 Only Time CD Maxi
  • November 24, 2000 A Day Without Rain CD album
  • January 14, 2002 May It Be CD Maxi
  • December 2, 2002 Only Time - The Collection CD Album
  • November 18, 2005 Amarantine CD album
  • November 7th, 2008 And Winter Came… CD album

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personal data
SURNAME Ryan, Roma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryan, Roma Shane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish writer, poet and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , Northern Ireland