Enya

Quick Facts

Full Name	Enya
Occupation	World Music Singer
Date Of Birth	May 17, 1961(1961-05-17)
Age	63
Birthplace	Gweedore
Country	Ireland
Horoscope	Taurus

Enya Biography

Enya is one of the most popular and richest World Music Singer who was born on May 17, 1961 in Gweedore, Ireland. Irish New Age singer from Ireland who has been awarded the award for four Grammy Awards, including for her albums Shepherd Moons and A Day Without Rain and along with an Academy Award nomination.

She composed “May it Be” for She recorded “May it Be” for Peter Jackson‘s film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.’s film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan (/ˈ ɛ n j ə / ); born 17 May 1961), known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore in County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family’s Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She left in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan’s wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, and folk music. She has sung in ten languages.

In the 1970s several members of Enya’s family formed Clannad, a Celtic band with Nicky Ryan as their manager, sound engineer and producer and his future wife Roma Ryan assisting with the tour management and administrative duties. In 1980, after her year at college, Enya decided not to study music at university and instead accepted Ryan’s invitation to join the group with the aim of expanding their sound by incorporating keyboards and another backup vocalist. She toured across Europe and played an uncredited role on their sixth album, Crann Úll (1980), with a line-up of siblings Máire, Pól and Ciarán Brennan and twin uncles, Noel and Pádraig Duggan. Enya became an official and credited member by the time of their next album Fuaim (1981), which features a front cover photograph of her with the band. Nicky maintains it was never his intention to make Enya a permanent member, and realised she was “fiercely independent … intent on playing her own music. She was just not sure of how to go about it”. This sparked discussions between the two on the idea of using Enya’s voice to form a “choir of one”, a concept based on the “wall of sound” technique by Phil Spector that interested them both.

Her birthplace was in a family of musicians and was raised with eight siblings.

Enya Net Worth

Enya is one of the richest World Music Singer from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Enya 's net worth $140 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She also played the piano and sang in two bands before launching as an artist on her own. The first of her composition gigs was with The Frog Prince in 1984.

She received the World’s Top-Selling Irish Act award at the 2006 World Music Awards.

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin was born on 17 May 1961 in Dore, within the area of the parish Gaoth Dobhair, in the northwestern county of Donegal, Ireland. It is a Gaeltacht region where Irish is the primary language. Her name is anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan, where Enya is the phonetic spelling of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Ulster dialect of Irish; “Ní Bhraonáin” translates to “daughter of Brennan”. The fifth of nine children, Enya was born into a Roman Catholic family of musicians. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, an Irish showband, and ran Leo’s Tavern in Meenaleck; her mother, Máire Brennan (née Duggan), who had distant Spanish roots and whose ancestors settled on Tory Island, was an amateur musician who played in Leo’s band and taught music at Gweedore Community School. Enya’s maternal grandfather Aodh was the headmaster of the primary school in Dore, and her grandmother was a teacher there. Aodh was also the founder of the Gweedore Theatre company.

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At the suggestion of Roma, who thought Enya’s music would suit accompanying visual images, a demo tape of her compositions with Morris on additional keyboards was made and sent to various film producers. Among them was David Puttnam, who liked the tape and chose Enya to compose the soundtrack to the romantic comedy film The Frog Prince (1984), of which he served as executive producer. Enya wrote nine tracks for the film but found her songs were rearranged and orchestrated against her wishes by Richard Myhill except two tracks she sang on, “The Frog Prince” and “Dreams”, with the latter’s lyrics penned by Charlie McGettigan. Film editor Jim Clark later claimed the rearrangements were necessary as Enya found it difficult to compose to picture. Released in 1985 by Island Visual Arts, the album is the first commercial release that credits her as “Enya”. The change from Eithne to Enya originated from Nicky Ryan, who thought her name would be too difficult for people outside Ireland to pronounce correctly, and suggested the phonetic spelling of her name. Enya looked back on the project as a good career move, but a disappointing one as “we weren’t part of it at the end”. She then sang on three tracks on Ordinary Man (1985) by Christy Moore.

Facts & Trivia

Enya Ranked on the list of most popular World Music Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Enya celebrates birthday on May 17 of every year.

In 1985, producer Tony McAuley commissioned Enya to write a song for the six- part BBC2 television documentary series The Celts. She already had written a Celtic-influenced song named “The March of the Celts” and submitted it to the project. Each episode was to feature a different composer at first, but director David Richardson liked the track so much, he selected her to compose the entire soundtrack. Enya recorded 72 minutes of music in 1986 at Aigle Studio and the BBC studios in Wood Lane, London without recording to picture, though she was required to portray certain themes and ideas that the producers wanted. Unlike The Frog Prince, she worked with little interference which granted her freedom to establish her sound that she adopted throughout her career, using multi-tracked vocals, keyboards, and percussion with elements of Celtic, classical, church and folk music.

What is Enya's biggest song?

1. Caribbean Blue (1991)

Why is Enya rich?

Enya has accumulated her net worth through the many songs she has composed and performed as well as her television appearances and soundtracks for movies and TV. With sales of more than 80 million records, Enya is Ireland’s top- selling solo artist and one of the richest women in the music industry.

Does Enya have a child?

She has never married, never had children. “I am single, yes,” she says.

Where is Enya now 2020?

She continues to live in a castle in Dublin , not far from Bono and others of her wealth. Enya last released new music in 2015.

Why is Enya so popular?

Enya’s big break came in 1987, after she was asked to provide a soundtrack for a BBC series called, quite simply, The Celts. As the name suggests, the programme was an exploration of Celtic culture and mythology, and Enya’s oddly timeless artistic output made a suitably spooky, defiantly un-contemporary accompaniment.