Celebrity Name : Enya

Celebrity Real Name : Eithne Ni Bhraonian

Date of Birth : May 17, 1961

Birth Location : Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland

Biography  of Eithne Ni Bhraonian :
Enya, birth name Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (sometimes presented in the media as the Anglicised Enya Brennan; born May 17, 1961), is the Republic of Ireland’s best-selling solo artist and one of Ireland’s best known musicians. As a musical group, Enya is a collaboration between three people: Enya herself, who composes and performs the music; Nicky Ryan, who produces the albums, and Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics in various languages. Enya is an approximate transcription of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Irish. Enya is one of the biggest selling female artists in history, and was the world’s biggest selling female artist of 2001 and 2002. She has been unofficially ranked as the 12th biggest-selling female artist in the world in 2006.
Enya was born in Gweedore, County Donegal, in Ireland in 1961 to a musical family, the fourth youngest of nine children. Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening a pub, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at the Gweedore Comprehensive School. Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhair in 1968. They renamed the band Clannad in the 1970s.
In 1980, Enya joined Clannad, the band composed of her siblings Máire (Moya), Pól, and Ciarán and twin uncles Noel and Padraig Duggan. Eithne played the keyboard and provided backing vocals on their albums Crann Úll (1980) and Fuaim (1982). In 1982, shortly before Clannad became famous for “Theme From Harry’s Game,” producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Enya joined him to start her own solo career.

Trivia :
* The asteroid 6433 Enya is named after her.
* The B-Side single “Eclipse” is actually a reversed and modified version of Enya’s song “Deireadh An Tuath”, from the 1987 album ‘Enya’.

Albums :
* Enya (1987)  * Watermark (1988) * Shepherd Moons (1991)  * The Celts (1992)  * The Memory of Trees (1995)  * Paint the Sky with Stars (1997)   * A Day Without Rain (2000)     * Amarantine (2005)