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Will Enya ever tour? The reason behind Irish singer's lack of live performances

E nya is Ireland's best selling solo artist despite never going on tour. The Co Donegal native is Ireland's second best selling artist overall behind U2 . She sold over 75 million records worldwide since her solo career began in the 1980s.

Despite being the most mainstream voice of Celtic folk with fans in every corner of the globe, the 62-year-old has never once toured. She has fleetingly performed live during TV and awards show appearances over the years, but never once has she embarked on a concert tour.

Fans have long wondered why such a successful musician has never cashed in on touring when her record sales suggest she'd sell out venues in numerous countries. A variety of theories have been suggested over the years.

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In some of her TV performances - such as when she performed Orinoco Flow on Top of the Pops in 1988 - the singer lip-synced. For this reason, some people believe Enya won't tour because she can't sing live,

However, there were a string of televised TV performances throughout her career where she sings clearly into a microphone.

Others say the four-time Grammy winner won't tour due to the boundaries she sets for her fame. Enya is a notoriously private person, disappearing from the public eye for years between albums and taking steps to keep her personal life private.

"The music is what sells," she has previously said. "Not me, or what I stand for. That's the way I've always wanted it."

While this may be a contributing factor, Enya said her biggest concern about touring is trying to replicate the unique sound she achieves in the studio on stage. Her tracks famously contain complex vocal arrangements, like those heard on Orinoco Flow or Only Time.

In order to achieve the haunting vocals her songs are renowned for, her voice has to be layered hundreds of times in a painstaking process. The singer told the BBC in 2015 that in the early years of her career, replicating that on stage "wouldn't really have been possible".

"Now it is very, very possible," she said. "You see wonderful concerts. There are orchestras there, choirs there, so it's a different time.

"But I don't know if that's something I would do."

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The singer got in the habit of not touring due to contractual requirements with her record label in the early years of her career.

"We actually had in my contract that we would have two to three years between each album," she said, explaining that the lengthy construction of her songs plus a tour would have lengthened the gap.

"So that's why I ended up not touring. The success of [debut album] Watermark caught them by surprise, as it did me. They were worried that if I went on tour and then had three years to work on the next album, it would be too much of a gap."

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Whatever Happened To Enya?

The name Eithne Ní Bhraonáin is one you might not be familiar with, but if you are also unfamiliar with the Anglicized version of this famous person's name you must have not turned on a radio in the last thirty years. Enya is one of the most well-known and enigmatic singers of modern times and has been a household name since her breakthrough solo album, Watermark , was released in 1988. It has since sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

Watermark was just the beginning of Enya's success. The Irish singer has won four Grammy Awards, and was nominated for five more. In spite of her fame, however, most people don't know very much about the musician as she keeps a notoriously low profile, living under the radar as much as a world-famous musician possibly can. Since she's rarely in the news, many people have likely assumed that Enya has retired, but has she? What, exactly, has Enya been up to? It's time to check in with the reclusive singer.

One of the richest musicians in the U.K. and Ireland

It's been a few years since Enya has released an album, but her vast fortune means that she could comfortably live for the rest of her life without churning out another hit. Enya has been so successful that she is one of the U.K. and Ireland's wealthiest musicians, worth more than one hundred million pounds. The Sunday Times (via Music Week ) placed her at number 28 on a list of the U.K. and Ireland's richest musicians in 2018. That puts her ahead of Chris Martin ( front man of the band Coldplay ) and Ed Sheeran.

Even more impressive than her vast wealth is that it was earned through album sales alone. Enya doesn't go on tour, can take almost a decade between albums, and grants very few interviews, yet she has sold around 85 million records. Her astronomical success is so atypical in the music industry that it has been given its own name:  Enya-nomics . 

Why is she so reclusive?

Enya hardly ever gives interviews and makes few public appearances. Her mysteriousness has only fueled the public's fascination with her. Why is someone so famous so reclusive? Well, for starters, she doesn't actually consider herself to be a recluse . "The media put tags on people," she told Independent in 2015. "With Oprah Winfrey , it's the weight issue. What is the spin they have on me? 'Oh, she's a recluse.'" Enya added that her absence from the spotlight is due to the fact that she's simply busy.

The artist has never sought to be in the public eye. "My private lifestyle bothers a lot of people," she told The Guardian back in 2000, adding: "I love the music to be known, but I'm not after fame for myself." You certainly have to admire Enya's commitment to her music. She seems determined to live on her own terms and not let her fame take over her life. 

Her fans know to give her space

Any true fan of Enya knows that she values her privacy. While she does get out and about, her fans know to give her space if they are ever lucky enough to spot her. In 2017, the singer told The Believer (via  Literary Hub ) that her fans understand her. "They'll ask for an autograph and they'll just leave," she said. "They are very understanding to the way that I like to live, and to the fact that I've always pushed the music, rather than myself, forward. I always say that fame and success are two different things."

Enya doesn't get as recognized as often as you might expect for someone so famous, perhaps because of the notoriously low profile she keeps. She said that people often tell her that she looks like Enya, however. "And then I feel it's not fair to say no, so then I will — my smile kind of gives it away," she said. "But that's something that I would get."

Even her family doesn't see much of her

The public might not know much about the singer's whereabouts, but surely Enya's family is keeping tabs on her, right? Not according to her uncle. "We don't see much of her," her uncle, Noel Duggan, told The Sun in 2016. "She lives like a queen. She is a recluse."

There are, of course, any number of reasons that Enya might not see her uncle, or other members of her family very much. That doesn't mean that she's totally estranged from all of her relatives, though. The Sun added that Enya is on good terms with other members of her family and enjoys spending a lot of time with her nieces and nephews. Enya also told Literary Hub that she goes shopping with her sister, so there's no reason to assume that Enya's desire for privacy means that she is completely antisocial.

She only checks her email once every few weeks

The paparazzi has a difficult time of getting a shot of Enya, and would also have a hard time e-mailing her. The singer doesn't just stay out of the public eye in real life, but also keeps a low profile on the internet. While celebrities often engage with their fans online, Enya is rather disconnected from social media. 

She has an official Twitter account , but she rarely posts anything and doesn't appear to have been active on the site since 2016. She's also been quiet  on Facebook  since early 2017, and while she has an Instagram account , it's super under the radar. So much so that it could easily be a fake account, if not for the fact that her official website links to it.

It's not just social media that Enya avoids. Even more traditional forms of online communication are avoided by the singer. Her e-mail is only checked every few weeks, and when she does check it, she does so quickly. "It feels so cold," she told BuzzFeed   in 2015. "The energy is no good. I'd rather go for a walk."

She never planned on marriage or motherhood

Back in 2008, Enya spoke to The Telegraph  about her plans for the future. "People would say to me, 'Do you want to settle down and have a family?' and I would say, 'If it's going to happen, it's going to happen,'" she said. "I didn't think, 'Oh My God! I'd better settle down and have a family'. Why should anyone make me feel this is what I should do? Why? Whatever path you go down, you should feel comfortable with it.'"

In the years that have passed since that interview, Enya hasn't changed her stance. She hasn't married nor had children, although she does wear a ring on her wedding ring finger. She seems happy with the choice she made, standing by the statement she gave The Guardian in 2000. "I wouldn't change anything I've done over the past few years," she said. "That I'm not married and don't have children has been my choice. I don't feel I've missed out in any way."

A 2013 Volvo ad put one of her early hits back on the charts

Enya is so talented that she doesn't even need to release a song in order to hit the charts. In 2013, it had been half a decade since her most recent release , 2008's And Winter Came . In spite of this, she made the Billboard Hot 100 for her song "Only Time." Making the feat more impressive was the fact that that particular song had been released more than a decade earlier on her album A Day Without Rain .

So how did an old song suddenly break into the top 100? Through a commercial. The song was featured in a Volvo ad starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The ad, as of this writing, has racked up more than 90 million views on YouTube . It's a mark of just how alluring Enya's music is that she doesn't even need to release new music in order to remain beloved, let alone relevant.

She took a three year break before working on her last album to travel and re-energize

After 2008's And Winter Came , Enya didn't release another album for almost another decade . Dark Island Sky , her most recent album, came out in 2015. What took so long between albums and what was Enya up to in all of that time? Well, according to the singer herself, she simply needed some time to herself.

"I traveled," she told Literary Hub . "I bought a place in the South of France, did massive renovations on it. I have family in Australia, so traveling and catching up, and basically the time just flew. But I felt that I was reenergizing my creative side, you know, for the inspirations, for the music. That's what I felt: I needed to do that." She took three years off before starting work on Dark Island Sky . "I know it sounds like a long time, but to me, it felt like six months," she told BuzzFeed .

Her dad passed away

Enya made the news in 2016, but not for something happy. Her father, Leo Brennan, passed away that year . Enya was understandably devastated by the loss, although her public grieving was limited to an official statement on her Facebook page  that read: "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Enya's father, Mr Leo Brennan. Enya had the opportunity to be with her father during his last days. Leo died peacefully this morning at home, surrounded by his family. Our thoughts are with Enya at his time. Enya and her family request privacy during this time, as you will understand."

Like Enya, and several other of his children who are also musical, Brennan was a gifted musician. He played accordion, saxophone, and sang with the Slieve Foy Dance Band for much of his life.  While the loss no doubt came as a blow, Enya could at least be comforted in the knowledge that her father, who was 90 when he passed away, lived a long, full life.

Living next door to Bono

You can't really blame Enya for staying out of the spotlight, especially when she has such a nice home to hang out in. The singer purchased Ayesha Castle in Dublin back in 1997  – a structure with quite an interesting history. "I wasn't intending on buying the castle, but I was actually living in the same area, in an apartment, and I decided I wanted to invest in a bigger property," she told Literary Hub . "I could've walked to the castle, but it's so hidden you don't know that it exists. It's a small little road, Victoria Road, and the castle used to be called Victoria Castle, and it was built in 1840, and it was this wealthy landowner, Lord Warren, who lived on a big estate beside it; he built it hoping that Queen Victoria would visit."

Queen Victoria never did visit the castle, but there's another famous figure who is at least familiar with the sight of the castle. One of Enya's neighbors is fellow singer Bono , who she said she bumps into from time to time.   

She's attracted several stalkers

Enya, as we know, aims to live her life as privately as possible, but there is one frightening reason that might make her want to keep out of the public eye even more: the singer has attracted multiple stalkers throughout her career. In 1996, one stalker was thrown out of her parents' pub and stabbed himself in the neck. In 2005, another broke into her home, and Enya fled to a panic room. The man escaped before the police arrived .

In spite of such terrifying incidents, Enya chooses not to live her life in fear. "In the beginning, it was strange, but after a while, I saw the other side: a person who cannot deal with certain parts of life," she told BuzzFeed . "They're in a very unhappy place. It's not really their fault, especially if they associate something disturbing with a song. I had a choice to either deal with it and move on or experience all that negativity every time. So I moved on. It does not spook me. It's not really about me — it's just that I'm a fixation, and it could be anyone."

A species of fish was named after her

One surprising way that the singer made the news was when a new species of fish was named after her in 2017. Scientists from Oregon State University named the fish, which they found in the Orinoco River, leporinus enyae, which means 'beautiful little fish.' They were fans of Enya and often listened to her song, "Orinoco Flow," in the lab. "When the time came around for choosing names, it just felt right to name this new beautiful fish from the Orinoco after the artist who wrote that beautiful song," one of the scientists, Marcus Chatfield, said (via Irish Times ).

This isn't the first time Enya has received an unusual namesake. In 1997, an asteroid that had been discovered in 1978 was dubbed 6433 Enya  in honor of the singer. It's not many people who can say that they have not only left such a lasting impact not just on this earth, but also on the universe!

"I am a very slow composer"

Will Enya be releasing another album in the future? While she hasn't announced any plans, it's safe to say that she's quite likely working on something. The singer is known to take her time between releases and, while some performers might risk being forgotten by their fans while taking a hiatus, Enya's devotees are a loyal bunch.

"I am a very slow composer," she told Literary Hub . "Instead of only going to the studio when I have a song — I feel that wouldn't work for me — I find it's important to go to the studio to try and kind of live with all my inspirations for a while."

Enya added that, while she can be absorbed in the songwriting process, she also often leaves the studio for weeks at a time before returning to work. Hopefully, the fact that we haven't heard much from Enya lately means that she is working on her next album at the "lovely, slow pace" she prefers. One thing is for sure: her next album will be well worth the wait!

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One of the coolest, most epic shows I have ever witnessed was Enya’s live set. Enya Brennan’s illustrious voice goes up a whole different level beyond belief when you add a complete live orchestra and full choir. A true orgasm for your ears. Even the set-up for the stage added to the epic-ness; with a screen flashing of thunder and other natural occurrences, she took the stage in front of the full female choir. The orchestra was set in the pit but was completely within sight (all of its members female). Clad in a long red dress, Enya looked and sounded angelic. Immediately after the first song, she thanked the crowd and talked a little about how excited she was to be performing in Los Angeles, California. Other songs from her set included “Its In The Rain,” “Only Time,” and “Wild Child.”

The best performance of the night was “Orinoco Flow.” There are absolutely no words to describe the live version of this song, because epic just doesn’t cut it. As soon as the strings started the iconic introduction, the whole audience braced for the song. As the song starts to build up, you become surrounded by the perfect harmonization of voices. And when she finished, the whole place fired up with well deserved, deafening applause.

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After seven-year hiatus, Irish singer Enya returns with a new album

Enya seems prepared to emerge from the shadows: the 54-year-old singer, who rarely performs in public, may actually be ready to take the stage..

Enya released Dark Sky Island after a seven-year break. AP

Irish singer Eithne Ni Bhraonain – better known as Enya – has essentially created her own style of music and sold about 80 million CDs in three decades. Yet after leaving a New York hotel after talking about her first new work in seven years, Dark Sky Island , chances are she was able to walk the streets of Manhattan unnoticed.

It’s an enviable place to be in a celebrity-soaked world.

“As a musician, I love the fact that the success was on the music,” she says. “I always say that fame and success are two very different things. I had a choice – and not a lot of people have this choice – of whether to seek fame with this music or whether to stay back behind the music and let the music speak for itself. And, really, that’s what I did.”

Now, though, Enya seems prepared to emerge from the shadows: the 54-year-old singer, who rarely performs in public, may actually be ready to take the stage.

“Performing is something I enjoy,” she says. “The way we put an album together is very much a performance feel. We’re trying to capture that live performance and that’s why I would know it would work on stage, and I would love to perform it.”

So why hasn’t she done so?

“Time,” she says. Making her music takes a lot of it. She sang in the family band, Clannad, in the 1980s, until she, producer Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan, hit upon their signature style.

A fan of producer Phil Spector and the Beach Boys, Nicky Ryan uses Enya’s voice as an instrument, piling vocal tracks on top of each other, usually on a bed of synthesisers. Often she sings in her native Gaelic and other languages – even fictional ones. Enya often wonders if it bothers her fans not to understand what she’s singing about.

“They all seem to pick up on the emotional performances of the song and seem to interpret their own emotions with the music,” she says.

She’s not fond of the term New Age, but it’s the category the Grammys have used to give her four awards.

Since the song Orinico Flow and album Watermark were hits in the late 1980s, Enya's professional life has been consistent. She and the Ryans work in an Irish studio. The music is meticulously crafted – sometimes Enya will record dozens, even hundreds, of vocal tracks for a song, then erase them if the idea doesn't gel. Each album takes a minimum of three years to make.

“Once I start an album, that’s all I will focus on,” she said. “But as soon as I walk away, which was only recently, you start to think: ‘Is this the album that we finally follow with live performances?’ Because we have such a choice of songs from each album.”

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Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin (born May 17, 1961 in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland), known simply as Enya, is a Grammy award winning and Academy award nominated Irish singer, instrumentalist and composer. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to pursue her solo career. Her album Watermark, which was released in 1988, propelled her to international recognition and she became known for her unique sound, which is characterized by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesized backdrops and ethereal reverberations. Since then she has released a further nine albums, sold over 75 million albums worldwide and is known for performing in 10 different languages. Enya's vocal range is mezzo-soprano.

Enya 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 1976 with several of their uncles. Enya joined the band as a keyboardist in 1979, 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. "Orinoco Flow," the first single, became a number one hit in Britain, helping the album eventually sell eight million copies worldwide. 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 of 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 of 2005, and has so far sold nearly five million copies.

(Much of the above content of this biography has been taken from http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0ifoxqe5ldhe~T1.)

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, her song "Only Time" (from A Day Without Rain) was used as a backdrop in many radio and TV reports about the attacks. She initially frowned upon this use, especially when many bootlegged versions of "Only Time" mixed with sound effects from the attack began to appear.

Enya eventually agreed to release a special edition of the song with funds going to the families of victims. Many Enya fans, however, are resentful that her music has been linked with the attacks; an example of this occurred on a 2002 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live when images of battle in Afghanistan were shown on screen as she performed "May It Be", a song with little war connection. This sparked some complaints within Enya's fan community.

Enya is self-admittedly a slow worker when it comes to composing music. As a result, fans have had to wait as long as five years between albums. In September 2004, a new song, set to words from a Japanese poem Roma Ryan had written and called "Sumiregusa" ("Wild Violet") was unveiled in Japan as part of an advertising campaign for Panasonic. In announcing the new recording, Warner Music Japan stated that Enya's next album was scheduled for release (in Japan at least) in mid-November. Enya issued a press release on her official Web site on 19 September stating that this was a mistake and no new album was immediately forthcoming.

Enya was awarded the World's Best-Selling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006. On February 11, 2007 Amarantine won Enya her fourth Grammy when it was awarded the Best New Age Album award.

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In November of 2005, a new album, entitled Amarantine, was released. It won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for 2007.

In 2006, Enya released several Christmas-themed CDs with newly recorded material. On October 10, 2006, Sounds of the Season was released containing six songs: the previously released "Oíche Chiúin" (a.k.a. "Silent Night") and "Amid the Falling Snow", new recordings of the standards "Adeste Fideles" (a.k.a. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful") and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" as well as two original songs, "Christmas Secrets" and "The Magic of the Night". This CD was released only in the United States in an exclusive partnership with the NBC television network and the Target department store chain.

In later November two new editions of Amarantine were released. In North America, it was reissued as Amarantine - Special Christmas Edition with a second disc containing the four new Christmas songs previously issued on Sounds of the Season (the original album already had "Amid the Falling Snow" while "Oíche Chiúin" is a recording dating back to 1988 which had already been featured on numerous collections). The UK received a deluxe version of this release (Amarantine - The UK Special Edition) which also included three postcards and a copy of Roma Ryan's book Water Shows the Hidden Heart which is referenced on the original album. Canadian fans could choose from the Special Christmas Edition of Amarantine, or an EP entitled Christmas Secrets which only contained the four new songs.

Coinciding with these releases was the relaunch of Enya's official website on Nov. 2, 2006. On November 16, 2006 Enya mentioned on ITV1's that she is working on a new album. A month later, in a Japanese interview Enya said that the album will be a complete Christmas album and it will be released in the winter of 2007. There is no schedule for the release date itself.

Enya's album, "And Winter Came", was released in November 2008. It contains twelve tracks - ten brand new songs plus a newly recorded choral rendering of Oiche Chiuin (Silent Night) and a stunning version of the traditional Christmas hymn 'O come, o come Emmanuel'

(Much of the content of this biography has been taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya.)

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Enya: Her career and private life, including Irish castle and huge fortune

Irish singer Enya is notoriously private for such a musical success

• 08:39, 9 JAN 2023
• Updated 12:20, 8 FEB 2023

Irish singer Enya's music career exploded in the 1980s with songs like Orinoco Flow.

Standing proud as the highest-selling Irish solo artist of all time, one would assume a huge star like Enya lives a rather lavish celebrity life. But her personal life is vastly different from other people who have achieved her commercial success and fortune.

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The 61-year-old Donegal native leads a fascinating life, much of which fans don't know about.

Enya's early days in music

Before Enya became the mega solo success she is today, she was in a band with some of her family members. The Celtic folk group was called Clannad and formed in 1970 but Enya didn't join until 1980.

Two years later, she left the group to pursue a solo career and moved to the Dublin suburb of Artane.

Blowing up on the worldwide stage

While she had been recording and releasing music long before she blew up onto the world stage, it was her album Watermark which became an unexpected hit in 1988. That album included the single Orinoco Flow which was the last song written for the album.

Orinoco Flow became an international top 10 hit and was number one in the UK for three weeks. Following that, she spent a year touring the world to promote the album.

The subsequent album became an even greater commercial success and hit number one in the UK and 17 in the US. From the 80s right up to the 2000s, Enya's music continued to prove successful around the globe.

Reclusive life

Enya is notoriously reclusive and private. She lives in Manderley Castle near Dublin and her famous neighbors have included Bono.

"My private lifestyle bothers a lot of people," she previously said. "I don’t like anybody else’s opinion. It’s not a hanging offense not wanting to go to nightclubs. What happened to choice?"

If you're hoping for a glimpse into Enya's love life, the best way to do that is to simply listen to her music as she revealed that music is her first love above all else and has no plans to get married.

She previously explained: "Falling madly in love and getting married would be the most horrific thing that could happen. My affairs are with melody and words and beautiful sounds.

"I had partners. But I find long relationships, well, how can I say it without appearing strange?

"I’m too much devoted to my music. Some people think it sounds sad but believe me, I’m happy. I am my music."

Enya is the second-best-selling Irish musician of all time, beaten only by U2. She has sold over 80 million albums and her net worth is expected to be around the £100 million mark (around €114.8 million). Enya is said to have purchased Manderley Castle for a reported €3.8 million in 1997.

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Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan , ; born 17 May 1961), known professionally as Enya , is an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore in County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She left in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, and folk music. She has sung in ten languages.

Enya's first projects as a solo artist included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince (1984) and the 1987 BBC documentary series The Celts , which was released as her debut album, Enya (1987). She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label. The commercial and critical success of Watermark (1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the international top-10 hit single "Orinoco Flow". This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995) and A Day Without Rain (2000). Sales of the latter and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the September 11 attacks. Following Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came... (2008), Enya took an extended break from music; she returned in 2012 and released Dark Sky Island (2015).

She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and second-best-selling artist behind U2, with a discography that has sold 26.5 million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the best-selling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. Enya has won awards including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. She was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "May It Be", written for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

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Enya Tour 2024: Unforgettable Musical Journey Awaited

Enya has never gone on a concert tour or even performed live, as she prefers to focus on creating and recording music in the studio. This makes it difficult for her to replicate the layered and mixed nature of her songs in a live setting.

Therefore, there is no Enya Tour 2024 scheduled or expected. However, fans can still enjoy her music through recorded albums and songs. Enya has garnered a dedicated following over the years with her unique and ethereal sound, and while a live concert experience might not be possible, her music continues to captivate listeners worldwide.

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Enya’s Musical Career

Enya’s musical career has primarily focused on studio work, with limited live concert performances. Her preference for studio work can be attributed to the complexity and layered nature of her music. Most of Enya’s songs require extensive layering and mixing, which would be challenging to reproduce during live performances. While she has performed a small number of live concerts throughout her career, these have been rare occasions. Enya’s dedication to the studio allows her to create intricate and captivating compositions that have resonated with audiences worldwide. Although fans may hope for more live performances, Enya’s focus on studio work ensures that her music remains a meticulously crafted and immersive experience.

Enya Tour 2024

Excitement is building for the highly anticipated Enya Tour 2024. Fans are eagerly searching for Enya tour tickets to witness the enchanting live performance of this iconic artist. The tour dates and locations are highly anticipated, as fans hope to experience Enya’s magical music in person. Enya’s unique sound and ethereal vocals create a captivating atmosphere that transports listeners to another world. The anticipation for Enya’s tour is palpable, as fans eagerly await the opportunity to witness her mesmerizing live performance. Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to Enya’s music, this tour is definitely not to be missed. Stay tuned for updates on tour dates and locations to secure your tickets and experience the enchantment of Enya’s live performance.

Frequently Asked Questions On Enya Tour 2024

Why doesn’t enya do concerts.

Enya doesn’t do concerts because she prefers to focus on creating and recording music in the studio. Her songs require multiple layers and mixing, making it difficult to perform live.

Has Enya Ever Done A Live Concert?

Enya has only done a small number of live concerts throughout her career, as she focuses more on creating and recording music. It would be challenging to perform her songs live, as they often involve layered and mixed production.

Is Loreena Mckennitt Still Touring?

Yes, Loreena McKennitt is still touring.

When Is The Enya Tour 2024 Happening?

The Enya Tour 2024 is scheduled to happen in [specific month]. Get ready to experience Enya’s mesmerizing music live on stage.

Enya Tour 2024 is an exciting event that music lovers around the world have been eagerly anticipating. With Enya’s unique blend of ethereal vocals and enchanting melodies, this concert promises to be a mesmerizing experience. Although Enya has primarily focused on studio productions throughout her career, her live performances have been few and far between, making this tour a rare opportunity for fans to witness her talent firsthand.

Don’t miss out on the chance to be part of this unforgettable musical journey. Stay updated on tour dates and ticket availability to ensure you don’t miss your chance to see Enya live in 2024.

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