


In 1982, shortly before Clannad became famous for “Theme From Harry’s Game”, producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Eithne joined him to start her own solo career. Eithne played the keyboard and provided backing vocals on their albums Crann Úll (1980) and Fuaim (1982). In 1979, Eithne joined Clannad, the band composed of her siblings Máire, Pól, and Ciarán and twin uncles Noel and Padraig Duggan. They renamed the band Clannad in the 1970s. Eithne has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhair in 1968. 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. Musical UpbringingĮithne was born in Gweedore, County Donegal, in Ireland in 1961 to a musical family, the fourth youngest of nine children. Enya is one of the biggest selling female artists in history, and was the world’s biggest selling female artist of 20. Enya is a phonetic approximation of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Irish.

As a musical group, Enya is really 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. May 17, 1961), is Ireland’s best-selling solo musician. Enya, birth name Eithne Nà Bhraonáin (sometimes presented in the media as the Anglicized Enya Brennan b.
