Reviews
"I'm a verr-y private person," adds the publicity-shy, seldom interviewed artist, her halting English laced with the curled Donegal articulation of her childhood Gaelic. "I have to go so deep into myself to compose, so the place where I perform is not in public but in the studio." (Billboard Magazine, Oct. 2000)
While hardly varying her formula of combining traditional Celtic music with modern sounds, Enya's been one of the few New Age artists to find an audience beyond George Winston and Kitaro devotees. Still, a #2 album goes beyond even what she's come to expect. (MTV, Oct. 2001)
Under the stern eye of the sisters, she perfected her English, became an accomplished pianist and, upon leaving, was drafted, as though by design, into a folk-rock group, Clannad, composed of members of her extended family. The band was managed by Nicky Ryan, an ambitiuos Dubliner, and while it achieved considerable success in Ireland and beyond, Nicky, assisted by his poet wife Roma, was looking for bigger things. The Ryans had noticed something special about Enya's voice and vaguely spectral presence - something that complemented their own notions of the music they wanted to make. (Women's Weekly, Jan. 2006)
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