Enya: Other Good Songs

Enya has such a unique and smooth voice. I don’t LOVE a lot of her songs, though I enjoy many. Here are the ones that stand out to me!

May It Be (from the titles of Fellowship of the Ring)

Anywhere Is

Only Time

One By One

Trains and Winter Rains (though it’s on her Christmas album, I usually listen to it independently)

So technically that’s 4 out of 26, or a favorite every 6.5 songs. I enjoy Enya, but don’t love her as much as some singers.

Biography: Enya

Here we are on the very last day of this week of my favorite Christmas music! But it's going to be a good day. Today's singer? Enya!

Eithne Ní Bhraonáin or Enya Brennan the anglicized way, was born on May 17, 1961. She was and is the sixth of nine children. Her parents both had musical backgrounds, and Enya herself started out by singing in a Catholic church. 

In 1984, she released a song I'm familiar with, Miss Claire Remembers. In 1986, Enya provided the soundtrack for a documentary about the Celts, and her first album (titled Enya) came out in 1987. 

The years passed and Enya continued releasing occasional songs and albums. In 1995, she released the song Anywhere Is and shortly thereafter, Paint the Sky with Stars. 

Finally in 2000, she released A Day Without Rain, the album that included the song. I actually do have all the songs from this delightful album -- it's beautiful. And in 2001, she sang the song that played with the credits in Fellowship of the Ring, a lovely song titled May It Be. 

 

In 2005 and 2008, she released Christmas CD's that had some classic and some original songs. The 2008 release is the CD I'm focusing on, And Winter Came... That one included her song Trains and Winter Rains, which was the first Enya song I ever heard.  It also includes My, My, Time Flies!

Enya has received several Grammy awards and has released multiple albums. 

More coming about her songs and albums later!

Birthday: Enya

Enya

Birth: May 17, 1961

I’ve posted about her: http://austenitis.blogspot.com/search/label/Enya

It’s her 51^st birthday!

You know her because – she’s sung a lot of songs, and come out with many albums, including A Day Without Rain. She also sang the credits song in Fellowship of the Ring, a piece called May It Be. Her real name -- Eithne Ní Bhraonáin.

CD: Fellowship of the Ring

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9.5

Singer: Enya sings some.

Type of music: Soundtrack

Composer: Howard Shore

From the movie: Fellowship of the Ring from the Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkien

List of songs:

• The Prophecy
• Concerning Hobbits
• The Shadow of the Past
• The Treason of Isengard
• The Black Rider
• At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
• A Knife in the Dark
• Flight to the Ford
• Many Meetings
• The Council of Elrond (featuring the theme for Aragorn and Arwen), composed and permformed by Enya
• The Ring Goes South
• A Journey in the Dark
• The Bridge of Khazad Dum
• Lothlorien
• The Great River
• Amon Hen
• The Breaking of the Fellowship
• May It Be, composed and performed by Enya

My overall opinion: I love this CD! Just got it within the past week. Highly recommended.

Song: May It Be

My rating on a 1-10 scale: 9.5

Singer: Enya

Type of music: Celtic?

From the movie: It's the credit music for The Fellowship of the Ring, the first Lord of the Rings movie.

Length: 3:32

My overall opinion: I like this song. I think Enya wrote it herself too.