Enya

Enya (born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin; anglicised as Enya Brennan; 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer. She has sold 26.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US and an estimated 75 million worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling artists. She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist, and records her music with lyricist Roma Ryan and producer and manager Nicky Ryan.

Enya began her music career in 1980 as a member of Clannad, her family's Celtic band. After playing on two of their albums, she left in 1982 to pursue a solo career. She adopted a distinctive sound through voice-layering, folk melodies, and keyboards on her debut album Enya (1987), produced as the soundtrack for the BBC documentary series The Celts. Her next album, Watermark (1988), was her breakthrough record following the success of its lead single "Orinoco Flow", which reached the top 10 in ten countries and propelled Enya's rise to worldwide fame. Her follow-up albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995) and A Day Without Rain (2000), continued her success through the 1990s and into the 2000s, helped by the respective charting singles "Caribbean Blue", "Anywhere Is", and "Only Time". Following Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came (2008), Enya took an extended break from music; she returned in 2012 to record Dark Sky Island (2015).

Enya (disambiguation)

Enya (born 1961) is an Irish vocalist, instrumentalist and composer.

Enya may also refer to:

  • Enya (album), 1987 album by Enya
  • 6433 Enya, asteroid named after the Irish musician Enya
  • Enya language, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • See also

  • Anya
  • Enya (album)

    Enya is the first studio album from the Irish musician Enya, released in 1987 on BBC Records. It was produced as the soundtrack to the 1987 BBC television documentary series The Celts.

    Enya received mostly positive reviews and was a mild commercial success, reaching No. 69 in the UK. Following Enya's rise in popularity, the album was reissued as The Celts by Warner Music Group which reached No. 10 in the UK. The album has sold 1 million copies in the US.

    Background

    The album was first released in the UK by the BBC on their own label, and later issued in North America by Atlantic Records. It reached No.69 in the UK Albums Chart in June 1987. In 1992, Warner Music reissued a remastered version of the album as The Celts.

    The album includes only a portion of the music Enya composed for the documentary series. In 1992, coinciding with the reissue of the album, a previously unreleased track from these sessions, "Eclipse", was released as a B-side on the CD single for "the Celts". In 2005, another previously unreleased track from the same sessions, a "Spaghetti Western Theme" done in the style of Hugo Montenegro, was released on the CD single for "Amarantine", in memory of one of the producers of the TV series.

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    Enya

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    Guy feat. 1 Life 2 Live
    [Guy]:
    Yeah uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah
    Yes! G-U-Y and I
    Gotta get a piece of this pie
    Gonna take you on a high
    Do or die
    Are you with it?
    Cause you can be the one who can get it
    And if I get money we can split it
    If I gave you my life would you live it
    Would you fit it?
    Now who wanna be the freeloader
    Who wanna be the shareholder
    Who's gonna be the downloaders
    When I download the **** on the block
    All consumers just be ready to cop
    Cause I'm ready to drop, **** be fifty a pop
    You better let me know if you want it or not
    Yo it's gonna be gone by the end of the day
    Cause **** from Y2K
    1 - We're talking 'bout the best
    Take it to the wild, wild West
    Talking about the dirty south
    That's what I'm all about, no doubt
    Take it to the East
    You gotta go fast in the streets
    Cause I'm living in the belly of the beast
    I'm just trying to live in peace, roll out
    Now we're rolling on the South side
    With my true playas this is from the East side
    Got my shorties in the back
    Got my niggaz in the front
    And my fifteen inch rims on my hoo ride
    Now who rides, rolling through the ATL so don't trip
    Plus you're about to get yourself in some ****
    And you know we got your back
    All the clubs are pack from front to back, the girls are phat
    Booty banging like a budha sack
    And when you're living in the ghetto
    You gotta know when to let go
    How to hold every dice roll
    Or your platinum from your white gold
    Plus the price is on your soul
    And everyday's in vain
    Shooting you're luck like a monopoly game
    And everybody's looking for the fortune and fame
    That's the name of this thang
    Repeat 1
    [1 Life 2 Live]:
    Only the best like pushing black Bentley coupes
    You ain't the best so that just can't be you
    Only the best like coppin' a platinum piece
    You ain't the best nigga **** cheap
    Me, toxic, I split vintage
    Everything you talk you know we been did
    You kick one rap and you all winded
    Your career real quick started and ended
    We the elite means we the top of the line
    Means we go straight in while you stopping in the line
    Means I don't give a **** what you got in your rhymes
    Means y'all get to going when I'm cocking my nine
    When Teddy told me the cost, **** hit me hard
    Pay me how many thousands for sixteen bars?
    You wiling, you gon' regret that you started this mess
    Got two g but will never be part of the best
    Repeat 1
    Just trying to live in peace yeah, yeah




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