Already at age of four or five, she attended music contests - the family has always performed music and her father still has live music in his tavern "Tabhairne Leo" (Leo's Tavern). It is located in Meenaleck between Crolly and Annagry, close to Eithne's home town.
At age eleven, Eithne went to a boarding school - a convent school in Millford, Co. Donegal.
In 1980 she joined the
world-famous band "Clannad" which also included her
sister M�ire, brothers Ciar�n and P�l, as well as two uncles,
P�draig and Noel. She appeared as a singer and keyboard player
on two albums, Crann Ull and Fuaim before she left. In 1985, she wrote most of the
tracks for the David Puttnam film "The Frog Prince" (US
title "The French Lesson"). Enya performed two tracks
herself but they are not featured in the film, they're only on
the soundtrack. By 1986, Enya had made a number of
tracks for a BBC documentary series, "The Celts". Some
of them were released as an album a while later - self-titled
"Enya" under the Atlantic New-Age label. The track
"Boadicea" of this album is used in the filmatisation
of the Stephen King book "Sleepwalkers". Watermark came out in 1988 and by
that time she had been asked by Rob Dickins, Chairman WEA Music
UK, to work with him. The hit "Orinoco Flow" made her
famous world-wide. Comedian and movie producer Steve Martin likes her music and he
used many tracks from Watermark in his film "L.A.
Story". In 1992, Shepherd Moons was
released and the track "Book of Days", which was
originally in Irish, was transformed into the title track of the
1992 film "Far and Away" with Tom Cruise and Nicole
Kidman. This meant another hit for Enya. Four years later Enya released The
Memory of Trees which took two years to make. "Anywhere
Is" made it to Top of the Pops, and in many countries it hit
the top of the charts. On her 35th birthday in 1996, some
of us incarnated fans decided to send her a present. We had a
florist to make a violin of roses and sent it with a portfolio of
greetings and pictures. The next album? Who knows... it
will probably be near the end of the Millennium before a new one
is released, since her music is a while in the making. No digital
voice reproduction is made so she sometimes sings the same part
4-500 times to get the right voice. We hope that the next album
will be as beautiful as the others.
Enya wanted to make her own music; Nicky Ryan left Clannad where
he was a technician and started producing with her. His wife Roma
writes the lyrics for Enya's music. The three of them is known by
fans as the Triad.
This track was re-released in 1992 as "The Celts".
And here is a picture of Leo�s tavern
