He was so into experimenting with all types of music.”
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.
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