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急求恩雅的英文介绍
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ABOUT ENYA » Biography
Enya's background
Enya's real name is Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin. She was born on May 17, 1961 in the parish of Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), Co. Donegal in the Gaeltacht region of Ireland. She has 4 brothers - Ciarán, Pól, Leon, Bartley - and 4 sisters - Máire, Deidre, Olive and Bridin.
Enya's grandparents led a traveling band that played in small villages around Ireland. Her grandmother was a drummer, and her grandfather played the piano. Both her parents were also involved with music. Her mother Máire (nicknamed, Baba) used to play in a dance band. After the band broke up, she became a music teacher at the Gweedore Comprehensive School and a choir director. Her father Leo was a member of a show band (the Slieve foy band), later he opened a tavern.

Enya's early years
Enya was steeped in Irish music, performing on stage from the age of three. From her eleven years, she attended a convent boarding school in Milford run by the Loretto order, where she was studying piano and classical music. At the age of seventeen, she continued her study of music at college. She had spent a year studying classical music with Father O'Cheallaigh before, on suggestion of Clannad's manager Nicky Ryan, she joined Clannad.
The family group featured her twin uncles Pádraig and Noel Ó Dugáin, older brothers Ciarán and Pól Ó Braonáin and her sister Máire Ní Bhraonáin. Enya provided mainly backing vocals and played the Wurlitzer electric piano, later she used the synthesizer Prophet 5. Enya stayed with Clannad for almost two years, toured with them and participated in the recording of albums Crann Ull and Fuaim.
After a European tour in 1982, Enya announced that she would leave the band together with Clannad's long time manager and producer Nicky Ryan. She moved to live with him and his wife Roma to Dublin, and develop her own musical career.

Since 1982
Enya began writing songs in 1982-3, learned the saxophone and played the classical piano. In 1984, her two instrumentals Miss Clare Remembers and An Ghaoth On Ghrian got released on Touch Travel cassette in the limited edition of only 5000 copies. Miss Clare Remembers appeared also on Watermark, but An Ghaoth On Ghrian hasn't been released again. Later, Roma, who had found the songs very "visual", sent the tape of Enya to David Puttnam, who was looking for someone to compose the soundtrack to his next movie The Frog Prince. Attracted by the demo tape, he offered the work to Enya, who composed a sweet romantic music for him. The soundtrack got orchestrated, so it wasn't until she started working with the BBC on a documentary series The Celts that she was able to do the proper arrangements that she wanted to do on the music. The soundtrack was released separately as an album titled simply Enya, with the song I Want Tomorrow as a single. Although it didn't enjoy major chart success, Rob Dickins, chairman of Warner Music UK, heard the album and fell in love with it. When he met Enya at an Irish awards ceremony outside Dublin he promptly signed her. "I signed her as an artist without any commercial potential at all," said Dickins. "I was just a fan." One year later, Enya released Watermark. Its first single Orinoco Flow, written as the last song for the album, became a surprise number one hit in Britain and the album climbed to no.5 in the UK charts. Watermark introduced Enya worldwide - it has sold millions copies and has gone platinum in fourteen different countries.
Enya spent the years following the success of Watermark rather quietly until she returned in 1991 with the UK chart-topper Shepherd Moons. The album with songs Caribbean Blue and Book Of Days as singles has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and won Enya her first Grammy. Another album The Memory Of Trees was released in 1995. It also won Grammy for The best New Age album, sold over 2 million copies in its first year of sale and entered the U.S charts at no.9. Two years later, Enya released a Best Of compilation called Paint The Sky With Stars, which featured two new tracks (Only If..., Paint The Sky With Stars) and a three CD collection called A Box Of Dreams. The CDs entitled Oceans, Clouds and Stars covered Enya's career since 1987 to 1997.
In 2000, five years after The Memory of Trees, Enya released a studio album entitled A Day Without Rain. The track Only Time was used in news coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Later, a remix of the track was released as a single with all of the money from it going to the International Association of Firefighters. A Day Without Rain won Best New Age Album at the 2002 Grammy Awards and became Enya's best-selling album to date. With more than 12 million units sold worldwide, it brought her total album sales to 60 million albums for her career.
In 2001, Peter Jackson asked Enya to write two songs for his movie adaptation of the first part of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Enya, being a fan of Tolkien, agreed, and contributed to the soundtrack of The Fellowship Of The Ring with Aníron and May It Be. May It Be was also nominated for an Oscar and Enya preformed it live at the ceremony.
In September 2004, Panasonic used Enya's song Sumiregusa (Wild Violet) in the Japanese commercial promoting their Viera television. Shortly afterwards, Warner Music Japan announced that the new Enya album was due to be released in November 2004. The announcement, which turned to be untrue, was promptly denied by Aigle Music. It wasn't until a year later, when the official site confirmed the release date of Amarantine on November 2005.