Enya

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Enya is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician renowned for her ethereal, multi-layered vocal style and atmospheric new-age music that has achieved worldwide commercial success.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
musician
record producer
singer
songwriter
activeYearsStart 1980
alsoKnownAs Eithne Brennan
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
surface form: Eithne Ní Bhraonáin
associatedAct Clannad
Nicky Ryan
Roma Ryan
awardReceived Grammy Award for Best New Age Performance
surface form: Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
birthName Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
countryOfCitizenship Ireland
dateOfBirth 1961-05-17
ethnicity Irish
family Brennan musical family
genre Celtic music
ambient music
new-age music
pop music
hasPerformedLiveIn very few concert tours
hasSold over 80 million records worldwide
hasWon multiple Grammy Awards
influencedBy church music
traditional Irish music
instrument keyboards
piano
vocals
languageOfLyrics English
Irish
Latin
Loxian
Spanish
memberOf Clannad
nativeLanguage Irish
notableAchievement one of the best-selling Irish solo artists of all time
notableFor ethereal soundscapes
extensive use of reverb and overdubbing
multi-layered vocal harmonies
notableSong Aníron
Book of Days
Caribbean Blue
May It Be
Only Time
Orinoco River
surface form: Orinoco Flow
notableWork A Day Without Rain
Amarantine
And Winter Came...
Shepherd Moons
The Memory of Trees
Watermark
soundtrack contributions to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
occupation musician
record producer
singer
songwriter
placeOfBirth Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland
recordLabel Reprise Records NERFINISHED
Warner Music Group
surface form: Warner Music
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
sibling Ciarán Brennan
Moya Brennan
Pól Brennan
stageName Enya self-link
styleCharacteristic layered choral-like vocal arrangements
minimal live performances
vocalType mezzo-soprano

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Enya stageName Enya self-link