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In September 2004, a new song, set to words from a Japanese poem Roma Ryan had written and called 'Sumiregusa' ('Wild Violet') was unveiled in Japan as part of an advertising campaign for Panasonic. As a result, fans have had to wait as long as five years between albums.

This sparked some complaints within Enya's fan community.Д®nya is self-admittedly a slow worker when it comes to composing music. Many Enya fans, however, are resentful that her music has been linked with the attacks an example of this occurred on a 2002 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live when images of battle in Afghanistan were shown on screen as she performed 'May It Be', a song with little war connection. She initially frowned upon this use, especially when many bootlegged versions of 'Only Time' mixed with sound effects from the attack began to appear.Д®nya eventually agreed to release a special edition of the song with funds going to the families of victims.

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)ДЄfter the Septemattacks, her song 'Only Time' (from A Day Without Rain) was used as a backdrop in many radio and TV reports about the attacks.

(Much of the above content of this biography has been taken from. In 2002, she contributed material to the first film in Peter Jackson's award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, scoring a hit with the single 'May It Be.' Amarantine, her first full-length recording since Day Without Rain, followed in November of 2005, and has so far sold nearly five million copies. Enya's first album of new material in five years, Day Without Rain, was released in late 2000. In 1997 came the release of a greatest-hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, which featured two new songs. charts at number nine and sold over two million copies within its first year of release. The record, entitled Memory of Trees, was released in December of 1995. charts at number 17 and remained in the Top 200 for almost four years.ДЄgain, Enya was slow to follow up on the success of Shepherd Moons, spending nearly four years working on her fourth album. Shepherd Moons was even more successful than its predecessor, eventually selling over ten million copies worldwide it entered the U.S. She finally released Shepherd Moons, her follow-up to Watermark, in 1991. Enya spent the years following the success of Watermark rather quietly her most notable appearance was a cameo on SinГѓВ©ad O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. 'Orinoco Flow,' the first single, became a number one hit in Britain, helping the album eventually sell eight million copies worldwide. The soundtrack was released in 1986 as her eponymous solo album.Д®nya didn't receive much notice, but Enya and the Ryans' second effort, Watermark, became a surprise hit upon its release in 1988.

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Within a few years she was commissioned, along with producer/arranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan, to provide the score for a BBC-TV series called The Celts. In 1982, she left Clannad, claiming that she was uninterested in following the pop direction the group had begun to pursue. Enya joined the band as a keyboardist in 1979, and contributed to several of the group's popular television soundtracks. Most important to Enya's career were her siblings, who formed Clannad in 1976 with several of their uncles. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, a popular Irish show band her mother was an amateur musician. Enya's vocal range is mezzo-soprano.Д®nya was born into a musical family. Since then she has released a further nine albums, sold over 75 million albums worldwide and is known for performing in 10 different languages. Her album Watermark, which was released in 1988, propelled her to international recognition and she became known for her unique sound, which is characterized by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesized backdrops and ethereal reverberations. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to pursue her solo career. Eithne Patricia NГѓВ BhraonГѓВЎin (born in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland), known simply as Enya, is a Grammy award winning and Academy award nominated Irish singer, instrumentalist and composer.

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