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• My first language is Gaelic.

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• The Druids held the trees as very sacred.

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• The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

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• Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

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• The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

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  The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

   

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• The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it’s a bit false.

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• The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

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• The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn’t make it easy.

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• There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

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• When I was growing up, I’d be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I’d sing in the church.

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• When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

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• With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I’m relating to them something that’s quite personal.

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• It wasn’t so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

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• I don’t have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don’t do my own shopping; it’s a security thing.

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• I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

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• I didn’t expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

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Enya (37)

Birth:	17th May, 1961
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

About

Enya was born in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. She is an Irish singer-songwriter, and record producer. She began her music career in 1980 as a member of Clannad, her family's Celtic band. Her albums list shown below: Enya, Watermark, Shepherd Moons, The Memory of Trees, A Day Without Rain, Amarantine, And Winter Came, and Dark Sky Island. Her songs list shown below: Caribbean Blue, Anywhere Is, Only Time, May It Be, Orinoco Flow, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Between 1993 and 2007, she won four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album and received a World Music Award in 2001 for Best-Selling Female Artist.

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