Only Time: The Collection - Enya

many years, as a singer and songwriter. She was born into a musical family in Donegal Ireland in 1961, with her grandmother, father, and mother all being musical performers. E Enya began performing with Clannad in the 1980’s, playing the keyboard and doing backing vocals, although she was never recognized as a real member of the band. When Nicky Ryan decided to stop working as the bands producer, Enya teamed up with him to launch her own solo career, with "An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian" ("The Solar Wind") and "Miss Clare Remembers". It wasn’t until 1984 however that she was first credited as Enya, a simplified pronunciation of her name, and the name ...

Only Time: The Collection - Enya

to open my mind to all different musical genre s I felt I had to really try something outside my comfort zone, so who better than the loveable Irish musician E Enya and her strange New Age contemporary sound to set me on my tracks to a new musical love. Did I find one? Not really ,I felt the best way to approach Enya would be in the form of a greatest hits album, so I grabbed myself a copy of "Only Time- The Collection" , to say it was a bit overwhelming would be an understatement. 4 Discs wasn t what I expected, as in my thinking, how could she have 4 discs worth of greatest hits yet managed to escape me all this time. It s too big a collection to go through ...

Amarantine - Enya

things, a musical act that is not only immensely original but also very successful. Sitting in second place only to U2 as Ireland most successful recording artists of all time, E Enya have built an empire out of combining beautiful multi-layered vocals with keyboard washes of an almost classical nature. The nature of the music has not changed in any major way in the last twenty years since the singer jumped ship from her siblings in Clannad and went solo, but its enough to realise that when you are the best in the world at a certain style, particularly as its one that you have more or less created yourself, then why deviate from your chosen path. That’s not to say there ...