Enya – Storms In Africa

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Enya (born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin; 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter.

Enya began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo. She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1986 BBC series The Celts.

Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to further international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.She has performed in 10 languages.

Enya continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

She received the world’s best-selling female award at the 2001 World Music Awards.She is Ireland’s best-selling solo musician. Her record sales stand at more than 75 million worldwide, including over 26.5 million in album sales in the US,making her one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time. Her work has earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination.

Musical style and other projects

As a musical group Enya represents a partnership between three people: Enya herself, who composes and performs the music; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums; and Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics in various languages, except Irish, in which Enya will render the lyrics herself.Enya performs all instruments and vocals in her pieces unless specified.

Although there are certain pieces where acoustic instruments are featured, almost all sounds of her pieces are created by a synthesiser. Her signature sound uses simple arrangements with extensive multi-tracking vocals.

The vocals are performed individually and are then layered together to form a virtual choir. According to Enya, Angeles, the fifth track on her album Shepherd Moons has about 500 layered vocal tracks.

Enya’s vocal range is mezzo-soprano.In “Cursum Perficio” of the album Watermark, Enya reaches a C an octave below middle C. Later in the piece, she sings a high A-flat above the treble clef.

On the album Amarantine Enya sings in Japanese and Loxian, a language invented by Roma Ryan. The vocabulary is formed by Enya singing the notes to which Roma provides the phonetic writing.There is no official syntax for Loxian.While most of her songs are sung in English, some of Enya’s songs are sung entirely in Irish or Latin.

Enya has also sung songs written entirely or partially in Welsh, Spanish, French, and even languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Enya has performed several songs relating to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, including 1991’s “Lothlórien” (instrumental), and 2001’s “May It Be” (sung in English and Quenya), and “Aníron” (in Sindarin)—the latter two appearing in Peter Jackson’s movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and on its soundtrack album. “May It Be” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Enya’s performances are “semi-live”, using playback music and singing. She has given live performances on various television shows, events and ceremonies (one of her recent appearances was in Gweedore in the summer of 2005, which coincided with a tribute event to the Brennan family that took place in Letterkenny), but she has yet to do a concert.

She does not classify her music as belonging to the new-age genre. When asked what genre she would classify her music as belonging to, she would reply, “Enya”.

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