She was selected as the best New Age artist and received two Grammies for Shepherd Moons, and The Memory of Trees. Enya remained in the frames of the style chosen for the first studio works and made this album in accordance with the audience’s expectations. Her next album, The Memory of Trees, was finally presented to the listeners only in 1995. It was not a fresh studio work, but a renewed version of the Enya album with slightly modified tracks. This release was followed by a long break in the singer’s studio activity. Shepherd Moons led the British charts and enlarged Enya’s audience significantly. This song was released in two versions, with lyrics in Gaelic and English. This one contained the song Book of Days (Far and Away), featured on the soundtrack to Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman starring. Enya worked hard and responsibly on the new material and made an album just as perfect as she had expected it to be. The waiting for Shepherd Moons took as long as almost two years. It was an extremely good seller and ran platinum in 14 countries. In 1988 she released her second album, Watermark, made in the same vein as the first studio work.
It was a good commercial mover to open a new independent and talented performer. This work appeared so impressive that the BBC managers found it reasonable to release a compilation of Enya’s songs, named after her. In a year, she was offered to do the same for the BBC documentary on the Celtic history and culture. She became known to audience after playing soundtrack for The Frog Prince (1985). After the break up of this group, Enya moved to Dublin to develop her solo career. She started her musical career as singer and keyboardist in Clannad, a band formed by her father and elder brothers to play Irish folk music. The sound was inaudible to humans until scientists took the information picked up by the Planck space telescope and reproduced it through audio compression and pitch alteration, which created a humming sound and gave the track a fitting title.Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin, better known as Enya, was born on in a small village of the Gweedore region in the northwestern part of Ireland. She had read a story that Roma had given her about the earliest sound in the universe was a humming sound, which Nicky said was around forty-seven octaves below the lowest piano key". While Enya was working on the music, there was a part that she started to hum to and decided to keep the section as the humming part. "The Humming." is a song "that muses on the cycle of the universe and how change affects everything". Sometimes her music seems to move with the velocity of a glacier. Her songs stretch accordingly, synthesizers advancing and receding within them like shadows. Enya gained inspiration for the title track and the album from the 2011 designation of Sark in the Channel Islands as a dark-sky preserve and a collection of Roma Ryan's poems on islands.Įnya's music is primarily about distance: between minutes, between people, between stars.
In the spring of 2012 she started to write and record new material for a new album with her longtime collaborators, producer and arranger Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. (2008), Enya was unsure of her next career move so she decided to take break from music which lasted four years. After the release of her previous album, And Winter Came. Dark Sky Island is the eighth studio album by Irish singer, songwriter, and musician Enya, released on 20 November 2015 by Warner Music.