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). Enya has won awards including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the bestselling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide.
She is Ireland's bestselling solo artist and second-bestselling 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. Amarantine Enya to stream in hi-fi, or to download in True CD Quality on.
The word Amarantine is derived from the ancient Greek for everlasting, eternal or immortal. (2008), Enya took an extended break from music she returned in 2012 and released Dark Sky Island (2015).Įnya is known for her privacy and has never undertaken a concert tour. Amarantine is the second track of Enya’s album of the same name.
Following Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came. 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. The Very Best of Enya (Deluxe) Show all albums by Enya Home. This was followed by the multi-million selling albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995) and A Day Without Rain (2000).
Only Time (en español) Now We Are Free (en español) Anywhere Is (en español) Angels (en. The commercial and critical success of Watermark (1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the international top-10 hit single "Orinoco Flow". Less Than a Pearl submit Amarantine Its in the Rain If I Could Be Where You Are submit The River Sings submit Long Long Journey Sumiregusa submit A Moment Lost submit Drifting submit Amid the Falling Snow submit Less Than a Pearl submit Amarantine submit Its in the Rain submit If I Could Be Where You Are submit The River Sings submit Long Long Journey submit. Sumiregusa (Wild Violet) Someone Said Goodbye. She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label.
She has sung in ten languages.Įnya'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). Other regions received the single on or after 6 December 2005. The single was released in certain regions on 14 November 2005. The word is taken from ancient Greek and means everlasting or immortal (the same as the amaranth flower). 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. About Amarantine 'Amarantine' is a single by Irish musician Enya, taken from the album of the same name. 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. 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 band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. “The Loxians live on another planet and are looking out, wondering, ‘Are we the only ones who exist?’ It’s a beautiful idea.Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan () born ), known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. “Roma suggested a fictional language for singing and tried to create a culture and history behind it,” Enya says. We had used the fictional language Elvish on ‘Lord of the Rings,’ and it was very lovely.”Įnya says that as she collaborated with Roma Ryan on the new album track “Water Shows the Hidden Heart,” they realized the lyric was not working in English, Gaelic or Latin. “Roma used some of these sounds to create this language.
The impetus for the Loxian language was Enya’s presentation of the new melodies and influences from her work on the soundtrack to 2001’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” “When I came in with a song, I would sing sounds along with it to capture its feeling,” Enya recalls. The new project also includes one track in Japanese, with the remaining songs in English. On “Amarantine,” she performs three tracks in Loxian, a language created by her longtime lyricist, Roma Ryan. Past albums have featured Enya singing in English and Gaelic, and occasionally in Latin, Welsh or Spanish. Linguistically, however, the project showcases her voice like never before. The 12-track set is filled with Enya’s signature celestial vocals and haunting arrangements. Though the Irish chanteuse has a proven track record, she was not afraid to take risks on her first new studio release in five years. album, “Amarantine,” reaches a new level of ethereality.