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Enya
real name is, "Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin"
she was born, May 17, 1961. Gaoth Dobhair, Ireland. She
is known aka as "Enya Brennan", an Irish singer
/ songwriter. She is gifted with her beautiful vocals.
Some say, Enya is "Angelic"
Enya
is Ireland's best selling artist and one of Ireland's
best known musicians. Enya team comprises of 3 main people:
Enya, who composes and performs the music; Nicky Ryan,
who produces the albums, and Roma Ryan, who writes the
lyrics. Enya is an approximate tranlation of how Eithne
is pronounced in her native Irish. Enya is one of the
biggest selling female artists in history, and was the
world's biggest selling female artist of 2001 and 2002.
She has been unofficially ranked as the 12th biggest-selling
female artist in the world in 2006.
Where
was Enya born? Gweedore, County Donegal, in Ireland in
1961 to a musical family, the fourth youngest of nine
children. Her grandparents were in a band that played
throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve
Foy Band before opening a pub, and her mother played in
a dance band and later taught music at the Gweedore Comprehensive
School. Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several
of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhair in 1968. They
renamed the band Clannad in the 1970s.
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