From a young age, Enya appeared in many pantomimes onstage at Gweedore's local theatre and sang with her siblings in her mother's choir at St Mary's Catholic Church, Derrybeg. Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue. She is part of an Irish-speaking, Catholic musical family, the sixth of nine children. Her work has earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination.Įithne Ni Bhraonain was born and brought up in Gweedore, County Donegal, in the northwest corner of Ireland. Her record sales stand at more than 80 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. She is Ireland's best-selling solo musician. She received the world's best-selling female award at the 2001 World Music Awards. She has performed in 10 languages.Įnya continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s 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 in addition, all Enya's albums from The Memory Of Trees onwards reached the top ten in the album charts for the US, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Australia. Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.
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She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1986 BBC series The Celts.
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