The vocals are performed individually, and are then layered together to form a virtual choir, although all the voices are Enya herself.

This record featured a then un-known musician from Gweedore, Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, now known as Enya.

Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhar in 1968.

The vocabulary is formed by Enya singing the notes to which Roma provides the phonetic writing.

Her brother Gearóid played guitar for Ragairne ( a short-lived band formed by Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy, of which singer Enya was a member ), appeared on the album Ceol Aduaidh, and organises the Frankie Kennedy Winter School.

Enya recorded a song entitled " Boadicea " for her 1987 LP Enya.

Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.

From a young age, Enya appeared in many pantomimes onstage at Gweedore's local theatre and sang with her siblings in her mother's choir at St Mary's Catholic Church, Derrybeg.

In 1980, Enya worked with Clannad, the band composed of her siblings Máire ( Moya ), Pól, and Ciarán and twin uncles Noel and Pádraig Duggan.

In 1982, shortly before Clannad became internationally renowned for " Theme From Harry's Game ", producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Enya joined him to start her own solo career.

The music she produced was featured on her first solo album, Enya ( 1987 ), but it attracted little attention at the time.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song " Orinoco Flow " ( sometimes incorrectly known as " Sail Away ").

Three years later she followed with another hit album, Shepherd Moons, which sold twelve million copies and earned Enya her first Grammy Award.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

In 2001 Enya recorded " May It Be ", which was featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one.

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 performs all percussion, instruments, and vocals in her pieces unless specified.

When asked what genre she would classify her music as belonging to, she would reply, " Enya ".

Beginning with Watermark, Enya began to attract the attention of stalkers, several of whom succeeded in breaking into her castle and attacking some of the staff.

As a result, Enya spent an estimated € 250, 000 on security measures for her home, Manderley Castle in Killiney.

The asteroid 6433 Enya, discovered on 18 November 1978 by A. Mrkos at Klet, is named after her.

The first official home video collection of music videos by Enya, Moonshadows, was issued on VHS by Warner Music in 1991, containing most of her music videos up until that point.

In 2000 Warner Music released Enya: The Video Collection on DVD in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from " Orinoco Flow " up to and including " Wild Child ", except for the video from " Book of Days ", which was replaced by a live TV performance due to licensing complications relating to the video's use of footage from the film Far and Away.

Her current vocal influences are Sade, Kim Burrell, Boyz II Men, The Clark Sisters, Enya, and her father Willie Norwood.

A 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.

* Orinoco River, Venezuela ( the London studio where the song was recorded was also called " Orinoco " and, due to the title of the song, Enya became known in Venezuela ).

The discography of Enya, an Irish singer-songwriter, consists of eight studio albums, three compilation albums, twenty singles and a number of other appearances.

The musician Enya has a track on her Watermark album named after Saint's book Miss Clare Remembers, and one on her Shepherd Moons album titled No Holly for Miss Quinn.

In 1992 a re-mastered version of the Enya album was released as The Celts including a longer, modified version of " Portrait ", which was renamed " Portrait ( Out of the Blue )".

On 10 October 2006 Sounds of the Season: The Enya Holiday Collection 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 prompted a lawsuit resulting in a settlement where Enya was given credit and royalties for her sample .< ref > Battles, Jan. " Rap takes Enya's 12 notes up chart ", Sunday Times 03 / 28 / 2004.

His losing streak was broken when he received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2001, for the Monsters, Inc. song " If I Didn't Have You ", beating Sting, Enya and Paul McCartney.

McKennitt is compared to Enya, but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations, using literary works as sources of lyrics and springboards for interpretation such as " The Lady of Shalott " by Lord Tennyson, " Prospero's Speech " ( the final soliloquy in William Shakespeare's The Tempest ), " Snow " by Archibald Lampman, " Dark Night of the Soul " by St. John of the Cross, Dante's Inferno, William Blake's " Lullaby ", Yeats ' " The Stolen Child ", " The English Ladye and the Knight " by Sir Walter Scott and " The Highwayman " by Alfred Noyes.

The first single " I Don't Wanna Know " was based on a sample of the Fugees ' 1996 hit single " Ready Or Not ", which itself was based on a slowed-down sample of the instrumental track " Boadicea " by Enya from her 1987 self-titled album.

* " Dreams ", a song by Enya from the British motion picture The Frog Prince

*" Morning Glory ", a 1988 song by Enya

" Orinoco Flow ", also known as " Orinoco Flow ( Sail Away )", is a 1988 song written and recorded by the Irish singer Enya.

The song was included on the soundtrack for the Peter Weir film Green Card ( 1990 ) along with " River " and " Watermark ", both also from the same Enya album.

In 1992, Reprise Records, the licensees of Enya's subsequent popular recordings such as " Orinoco Flow ", obtained the rights to the Enya album and it was remastered and reissued under the title The Celts.

*" Angeles ", a 1991 song by Enya from her album Shepherd Moons

* " Orinoco Flow ", a 1988 song recorded by Enya at Orinoco Studios