Watch Enya Videos With Lyrics from the Enya's albums, "Watermark (1988)", "Shepherd Moons (1991)", "The Celts (1992)", "The Memory of Trees (1995)", "Paint the Sky with Stars (1997)", "A Day Without Rain (2000)", "Amarantine (2005)", "And Winter Came (2008)", and you'll delight with the videos online of this great singer of contemporary music.
Enya biography: born Eithne Patricia Ni Bhraonain on 17 May 1961, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. Enya studied classical music at college and under private tuition. On leaving college she was asked by Producer Nicky Ryan to join her siblings in their family band.
She did so for a short time, but found it too restrictive musically, and so in 1982 she joined Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan in a creative and business partnership. Enya moved in with Nicky and Roma Ryan and constructed a small studio in a shed. Enya began giving piano lessons to earn some income, while the Ryans waited for inspiration to strike.
In 1984, she approached her first important task. Roma Ryan had sent a cassette of Enya to film producer David Puttnam, who already had to his credit such titles as Midnight Express, Chariots Of Fire and Los Gritos Del Silencio. Puttnam asked her to compose dreamy and romantic music with a sixties feel for the feature film The Frog Prince.
Having a studio at her disposal, Enya worked almost always at home with the Roland Juno 60 synthesizer or the Kurzweil sampler, and then added piano and voice. Nicky Ryan recorded everything and helped to put the compositions into their final form.
The next commission was for the BBC. It was to prepare music for an important television documentary series on the history of the Celtic civilisation throughout its 2700 years. The series was called The Celts. The composition took ten months work. The music was liked so much that the BBC decided to release a selection as an independent record, before the series was broadcast and entitled simply Enya, with barely a mention in the liner notes that it was a soundtrack. She played nearly all the instruments on the album, sometimes doubling up as many as eighty voices to create her characteristic sound, of dense textures, and ethereal voices, dreamlike and enchanting. It was to paint by means of synthesizers a modern sonic landscape that could evoke different atmospheres, from the mournful lament of 'Deireadh An Tuath' to the striking 'Boadicea', with its astounding dynamic of overdubbed voices. Nicky Ryan acted as producer and co-author of the arrangements and his wife Roma wrote nearly all the lyrics, for the most part nearly inaudible or impenetrable, giving an evanescent character to the music by being sung in Latin, Welsh or Scottish Gaelic.
Only on three of the pieces did other musicians take part, one on each. Patrick Halling, a classical violinist who frequently plays in recording sessions for rock artists (Jethro Tull and Steve Howe, for example), added delicate nuances to the final track. The great piper Liam Óg O'Floinn (or Liam O'Flynn, founder member of Planxty and regular collaborator of composer Shaun Davey) played the melody part of 'The Sun In The Stream'. Lastly, the guitarist Arty McGlynn (ex-member of Van Morrison's band and of Planxty and current member of Patrick Street) correspondingly completed with his elegant flourishes the only song whose lyric was comprehensible to us, being in English and sung clearly, 'I Want Tomorrow'. It was, moreover, the song chosen as a single and video.
This record subsequently climbed to number one in the Irish charts, which started the commercial rise of Enya. She collaborated with the singer Sinéad O'Connor reciting a short text on 'Never Get Old' from her album The Lion And The Cobra.
She signed with an important multinational (WEA), and had a resounding success with her second album Watermark, which has passed 10 million sales worldwide, and has gone platinum in 14 different countries, helped by the single 'Orinoco Flow', a No 1 hit in Britain. Then she repeated her world success with Shepherd Moons, which spent an amazing 199 weeks on the Billboard charts in the USA and has sold over 11 million copies.
A new version of the album Enya was released as The Celts and in 1995 with The Memory of Trees was yet another smash hit album. Enya has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and has won two, both for "Best New Age Album", Shepherd Moons in 1992 and The Memory of Trees in 1997. Also in 1997 she released a compilation album titled Paint The Sky With Stars that contained a selection of the Enya better known themes and two new songs: 'Paint The Sky With Stars' and 'Only If...' That year itself came out A Box Of Dreams; a box set that contained a three CD collection and an illustrated booklet. The CDs were entitled Oceans, Clouds and Stars, and they cover the Enya career since her debut in 1987.
The artist spent the remainder of the decade contributing soundtrack material to various projects, before returning to the studio to record A Day Without Rain, her first new studio album in five years. Of this album she says, "The title refers to the mood on a particularly peaceful day on which there was no rain. We do get a lot of rain in Ireland in all seasons. We had a run of days where it had done nothing but rain. Then one day the sun came out. It was then that I wrote the title track, so what else could I call it?".
Enya's music has appeared in many more smash hit films, including "L.A. Story", "Green Card", "Toys", the TomCruise/Nicole Kidman film "Far and Away" and Martin Scorcese's "Age Of Innocence". Enya's new song 'Only Time' features in the film, "Sweet November", starring Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves. In 2001 she records 2 brand new songs for Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack, "Aniron (theme for Aragorn and Arwen)" and "May It Be".
She has made appearances at benefits and has played for the Pope, the King of Sweden and the Queen of England, but these involved playbacks of her work while she played and possibly sang along, not a true live performance. "It’d be a really great thing to do,” Enya says of performing live. “We’ve first been talking about next year, trying to at least do a TV special performance, having the setting, say, in a cathedral or something and involve quite a few people - orchestrating the music, having choir. It’d be fantastic to try. You can’t emulate the same sound, but definitely the music can cross over to a rendering for a live performance. We’re both very confident about that.”
In 2002 Enya got a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for "best original song" with "May It Be". Wins a new Grammy Award for "Best New Age Album" with A Day without Rain. Wins three World Music Awards: "best-selling Female artist", "best-selling New Age artist" and "best-selling Irish artist", and wins the award for "best pop-rock single" with "Only Time" in the Echo Awards (Germany).
The latest honours bestowed on Enya were two Honorary Degrees, the University of Galway honoured her with Doctor of Music and the University of Ulster honoured Enya with Doctor of Letters.
She describes herself as a Roman Catholic Church member, and performed at a concert to commemorate the passing of Pope John Paul II.
Enya loves cats. In an interview published in 1988, when asked about pets, she replied: "I've got a cat. I love cats; at one stage I had 12. It was just bliss. They'd all lie around in the sun and then come up and climb around my neck." Enya's favourite classical composer is Sergei Rachmaninoff. Her hobbies include watching romantic black and white films, collecting artwork, reading, and painting. After Enya's name was called one asteroid discovered in 1978 ( 6433 Enya is in a 3.69 year orbit around the sun ).
Enya discography:
Enya (1987)
Watermark (1988)
Shepherd Moons (1991)
The Celts (1992) Enya video original album
The Memory of Trees (1995)
Paint the Sky with Stars (1997)
A Day Without Rain (2000)
Amarantine (2005)
And Winter Came (2008) Enya video original album
The very best of Enya (2009)
Poems from "The Way Obsidian Sings" and "Amarantine" by Roma Ryan
"It is your name" by Roma Ryan
What is it that a man cannot speak? / What grief? What sadness? / What is it that burdens a man’s shoulders? / It is not the sky. / After so many years of so much love / a man alone is a hurt thing. / His shirt, windblown. / His hair, uncared for. / Clothes he does not notice. / The sun in the sky need not arise, / neither need moon nor star. / Day after day / his eyes fix into the distance. / It is not where you are. / Mouth open, / only the sound of the wound / leaves his lips. / It is always the same. / What grief. What sadness. / It is your name.
"Sagas and longtales" by Roma Ryan
So many words he said with his eyes. / So many words no-one knew had ever existed. / Out of those darknesses the eulogy of endless desire. / Out of those softnesses sagas and longtales. /
Out of earth colours, an odyssey of islands. / Out of pinpoints of light, valleys and cities, / exquisitely described. / Everything he could imagine was in his eyes.
"I stitch your wounds" by Roma Ryan
Nobody knows how much you love me. / You armour our love against the world. / I stitch your wounds. / You know the years our love has travelled. / I place milestones along the inches. / You say there is no last season to our love / so I lay out winter as another beginning. / You declare our love openly in gesture, in word. / I remember all the secret moments. / You say to the world how much you love me. / In each heartbeat all of my love is given. / Nobody knows how much I love you.
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Watch Enya Amarantine video with lyrics | Amarantine, love is always love 
Amarantine was released on November 14, 2005. Always, a music which carries a high vibration, as Enya's music, will be always on top. Since, because of the speed of technological development, people are increasingly hungry after true feelings. And Enya, in Amarantine, vibrates great. We can see Enya in its splendor of a woman in love. A love passionately. A true love, without prejudices. NB for Roma who created miraculous lyrics. "In the studio I’m just hoping that one person out there will enjoy the work.” Enya is the nicest, most modest music star you could ever hope to meet. Enya and her producer, Nicky Ryan, begin each track with one of her melodies and then build sound over sound, recording 500 tracks for Amarantine. A careful work with a brilliant result.
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Watch Enya Only Time video with lyrics | Who can say if your love grows, as your heart chose? Only time 
Who can say where, if, why, when ...? Only time... We can paraphrase with Gail Harris's wonderful book "Your heart knows the answer" or quote Antoine de Saint-Exupery "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Enya "Only time" video can show us that invisible essential. Enya Only Time was released in 2000 in the same time with the album "A Day Without Rain". The track was remixed by S.A.F. (Christian B. and Mark Dold) with a final remix by Enya's producer Nicky Ryan. Enya Only Time was featured in the soundtrack of the motion picture Sweet November. Enya Only Time is Enya's biggest solo hit in the United States ( place 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and place 1 on the adult contemporary chart ). Enya Only Time was also featured as background music on the hit television series Friends, in the episode "The One Where Chandler Takes a Bath". The lyrics of Only Time song are Roma Ryan, Enya's lyricist, favorites.
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Watch Enya And Winter Came video album with lyrics 
And Winter Came... is the seventh full-length studio album. The album was released on November 7, 2008.
Track listing: And Winter Came..., Journey of the Angels, White Is in the Winter Night, O come, O come, Emmanuel, Trains and Winter Rains, Dreams are More Precious, Last Time by Moonlight, One Toy Soldier, Stars and Midnight Blue, The Spirit of Christmas Past, My! My! Time Flies!, Oiche Chiuin.
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Watch Enya My My Time Flies Video With Lyrics 
It is the first ever Enya song to feature a steady drum track and a prominent 12-string guitar accompaniment. The guitar parts were played by Dublin-based guitarist Pat Farrell. The song is dedicated to the memory of Jimmy Faulker, a well known Dublin guitarist who died in 2008.
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Watch Enya Trains And Winter Rains Video With Lyrics 
A beautiful song with lyrics about the loneliness of middle age stressed people. The melodic line has a very good tempo with the well known Enya's crescendo. Therefore I have illustrated this video with the triumvirate Donald, Chip and Dale, who are always young. What I particularly like this song is the contradiction between the lyrics and music: Roma send us a sense of sadness and helplessness and Enya send us a bracing message, full of optimism.
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Watch Enya 1987 video album with lyrics 
Enya's first full-album recording, Enya features music written and recorded for the soundtrack of the 1986 documentary television series, The Celts. Recorded in 1986, it was not released until 1987 when the series was first broadcast.
Track listing: The Celts, Aldebaran (dedicated to Ridley Scott), I Want Tomorrow, March of the Celts, Deireadh an Tuath, The Sun in the Stream, To Go Beyond I, Fairytale, Epona, Triad, Portrait, Boadicea, Bard Dance, Dan y Dwr, To Go Beyond II.
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Nicky Ryan (born Nicholas Dominick in Dublin, Ireland) previously
managed the Irish group Clannad, the band with which Enya first performed. Nicky Ryan is married to Enya's lyricist Roma Ryan (born Roma Shane in Belfast, Northern Ireland).
Roma and Nicky have two daughters, Ebony and Persia, who also contributed artwork and layout to Amarantine. In the Seventies and Eighties Nicky was highly regarded as a live sound engineer. In 2005, Roma Ryan created a new language known as Loxian for Enya's album Amarantine. "It allowed us to create the right sound and words, so the poetry of the lyrics fits the music," remarks Ryan.
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From "Water Shows the Hiden Heart" a forthcoming exhibition in the Art of the Valley Gallery during The Loxian Games.
"..he looks into the eyes of the water and sees his own eyes, looking. They reflect everything, these waters, even the hidden heart." There are two cities that carry the name The City of Constellations. The first is in the heights and is the home of the Loxians, the astronomers, the starkeepers. The second is in the valley and is the home of the Valley-dwellers, the scribes, the myth-minders. Both these peoples want to know their place within the night, they want to know they are not alone.
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Enya charitable causes:
Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin and the New York City Uniformed Firefighters Association’s Widows and Children Fund are just two of the charities which have benefited from her generosity. In 2008, Enya also autographed and donated two hundred copies of her album And Winter Came to United Way Taiwan.
Enya dedicated songs:
Smaointe is dedicated to Enya's maternal grandparents and Na Laetha Geal M'Óige to her own parents ("In honour of my father and mother.")
The Amarantine album is dedicated to the memory of Tony McAuley, producer of The Celts BBC series. Journey Of The Angels is dedicated to Tim Royes and My! My! Time Flies! is dedicated to the late Jimmy Faulkner.
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Enya Astrological Map picture - Click to watch in high resolution