Enya (Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin, born in Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland) was born into a musical family. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, a popular Irish show band and her mother was an amateur musician. Most important to Enya's career were her siblings, who formed the Celtic folk band Clannad in 1970 with several of their uncles. Enya joined the band as a keyboardist in 1980 and contributed to several of the group's popular television soundtracks.

In 1982, she left Clannad, claiming that she was uninterested in following the pop direction the group had begun to pursue. With her blend of folk melodies, synthesized backdrops, and classical motifs, Enya created a distinctive style that more closely resembled new age than the folk and Celtic music that provided her initial influences.

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'. The soundtrack was released in 1986 as her eponymous solo album. She didn't receive much notice, but Enya and the Ryans' second effort, 'Watermark' (1988), propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the UK number one and international hit single "Orinoco Flow".

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