Trains And Winter Rains
My! My! Time Flies!
Stars And Midnight Blue
Amarantine
Sumiregusa Wild Violet
The River Sings
If I Could Be Where You Are
Wild Child
Only Time Original Version
Drifting
Flora's Secret
Fallen Embers
One By One
Pax Deorum
Athair Ar Neamh
Anywhere Is
Orinoco Flow
Watermark
Boadicea
May It Be
Caribbean Blue
Aníron I Desire Theme For Aragorn & Arwen
Oíche Chiúin - Chorale
Only Time remix
Frogtoon Music Album Info: The Very Best Of Enya
Published: 03 Mar 2014, 13:53
With Her Blend Of Folk Melodies Synthesized Backdrops And Classical Motifs Enya Created A Distinctive Style That More Closely Resembled New Age Than The Folk And Celtic Music That Provided Her Initial Influences. Enya Is From Gweedore County Donegal Ireland Which She Left In 1980 To Join The Irish Band Clannad The Group That Already Featured Her Older Brothers And Sisters. She Stayed With Clannad For Two Years Then Left Hooking Up With Producer Nicky Ryan And Lyricist Roma Ryan With Whom She Recorded Film And Television Scores. The Result Was A Successful Album Of TV Music For The BBC. Enya Then Recorded Watermark 1988 Which Featured Her Distinctive Flowing Music And Multi-Overdubbed Trancelike Singing The Album Sold Eight Million Copies Worldwide. Watermark Established Enya As An International Star And Launched A Successful Career That Lasted Well Into The '90s.
Enya Born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin Was Born Into A Musical Family. Her Father Leo Brennan Was The Leader Of The Slieve Foy Band A Popular Irish Show Band Her Mother Was An Amateur Musician. Most Important To Enya's Career Were Her Siblings Who Formed Clannad In 1970 With Several Of Their Uncles. Enya Joined The Band As A Keyboardist In 1980 And Contributed To Several Of The Group's Popular Television Soundtracks. In 1982 She Left Clannad Claiming That She Was Uninterested In Following The Pop Direction The Group Had Begun To Pursue. Within A Few Years She Was Commissioned Along With Producer/arranger Nicky Ryan And Lyricist Roma Ryan To Provide The Score For A BBC-TV Series Called The Celts. The Soundtrack Was Released In 1986 As Her Eponymous Solo Album.
Enya Didn't Receive Much Notice But Enya And The Ryans' Second Effort Watermark Became A Surprise Hit Upon Its Release In 1988. Enya Spent The Years Following The Success Of Watermark Rather Quietly Her Most Notable Appearance Was A Cameo On Sinéad O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. She Finally Released Shepherd Moons Her Follow-Up To Watermark In 1991. Shepherd Moons Was Even More Successful Than Its Predecessor Eventually Selling Over Ten Million Copies Worldwide It Entered The U.S. Charts At Number 17 And Remained In The Top 200 For Almost Four Years.
Again Enya Was Slow To Follow Up On The Success Of Shepherd Moons Spending Nearly Four Years Working On Her Fourth Album. The Record Entitled Memory Of Trees Was Released In December 1995. Memory Of Trees Entered The U.S. Charts At Number Nine And Sold Over Two Million Copies Within Its First Year Of Release. In 1997 Came The Release Of A Greatest-Hits Collection Paint The Sky With Stars The Best Of Enya Which Featured Two New Songs. Enya's First Album Of New Material In Five Years Day Without Rain Was Released In Late 2000. In 2002 She Contributed Material To The First Film In Peter Jackson's Award-Winning Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Scoring A Hit With The Single "May It Be." Amarantine Her First Full-Length Recording Since Day Without Rain Followed In November 2005. A Holiday EP Christmas Secrets Arrived In 2006 Followed By An All New Full-Length Collection Of Original Seasonal Music Called And Winter Came In 2008. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & William Ruhlmann Rovi