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“It was a condition of the signing that we would be creatively independent and for that reason we have never felt that we couldn’t do something and be different for the right reasons because the music dictated it,” says Enya. Treating Enya as very much a personal project, Dickins respected Enya’s desire for creative independence. “Orinoco Flow” was a hit in every country in which it was released. “ How could you tell? There wasn’t any music like that out there in the late-Eighties.” Watermark would go on to sell in excess of 11 million copies, earn Enya two Brit Award nominations and delivered a UK number one single with Orinoco Flow. “ We and the record company were completely taken aback by the reaction to Watermark,” admits Enya. But Dickins said “ Sometimes the company is there to make money, and sometimes it’s there to make music.”Įnya made her WEA (Warner/Elektra/Atlantic) debut in 1988 with the acclaimed album Watermark. While her debut album failed to hit the popularity charts, it attracted Warner Brothers’ chairman, Rob Dickins, who quickly signed Enya, much to the surprise of his colleagues who had little faith that Enya’s ethereal music would sell in a marketplace dominated by pop acts such as Kylie Minogue and Rick Astley. With songs performed both in English and Gaeilge, Enya produced a set of enchanting, ethereal pieces that would later be collected on her eponymous debut album, released in 1987. “ It was a big risk factor on their side, because I was just someone who had studied music – there was no guarantee what kind of music I was going to write.” “ Initially they wanted one composer for each episode but then we put forward March Of The Celts – they came back saying we want to you to write all of them,” says Enya.
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Two years later, Enya provided the entire soundtrack to the BBC television documentary series The Celts. The first project the trio worked on was a soundtrack for David Puttnam’s 1984 film The Frog Prince.
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This all led to the creative partnership of Nicky, Enya and Roma in 1982. He was so into experimenting with all types of music.”
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I talked a lot about music with Nicky and this is when he had the idea of the choir of one (multi-tracked vocals by the same singer that sounds like a celestial choir). Nicky wanted me as keyboard player and as another vocal texture in the band which I agreed to. “ I wasn’t really involved as a member of the group. “I had come from studying classical music at boarding school and was fiercely independent,” remembers Enya. After she left college, she was invited by sound engineer and producer Nicky Ryan and his partner, visual artist and lyricist Roma Ryan, who were then managing the group Clannad, to join the group on a temporary basis. Her intention was to be involved in music but she didn’t know what direction she would take. “ I enjoy the sounds of language, it’s great to be able to sing in a very old language like Gaeilge but still be able to get the message across through the melody and performance.”Įnya studied classical music at Milford College. “ Because of that, my alphabet pronunciation is different to that of someone who speaks English as a first language,” she explains. Her name, Enya is a transliteration of the Gaeilge pronunciation of Eithne. She was brought up speaking Gaeilge (Irish). Your Connection to traditional and contemporary World Music, including folk, roots, global music, ethno and crosscultural fusionsĮithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin, better known as Enya, was born on in County Donegal, Ireland.