Nicky Ryan
Nicholas Dominick Ryan (born 1949 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish music producer, recording engineer and manager for the musician Enya. Nicky was also manager of Clannad, a group of Enya's family and the band she first performed with. Nicky is credited with first introducing the layering of Enya's voice, creating Enya's distinctive style.
In the Seventies and Eighties Nicky was highly regarded as a live sound engineer working with artists such as Gary Moore, Planxty and Christy Moore. He also worked as a teacher at St. Mary's School For Deaf Girls, where he experimented with sound engineering, to allow the pupils to feel the bass in the music more.
He worked with the Irish group Clannad as sound engineer from 1975 and then manager from 1976, inviting Eithne (Enya) to join in 1979. Nicky and Eithne left Clannad in 1982, shortly after the completion of the album Fuaim.
Enya and Nicky now have their own studio, Aigle Music, in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Nicky Ryan is also married to Enya's lyricist Roma Ryan.
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Nicky Ryan
ALBUMS
- The Most Beautiful Piano Music Ever released: 2005
- Simply Celtic Moods released: 2004
- Solaris 2 released: 2003
- Epics released: 2003
- Born on the Fourth of July: Music From the Films of Tom Cruise released:
Epics
Released 2003- Fanfare From 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' From 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Parade of the Charioteers From 'Ben Hur'
- Suite From 'Gladiator'
- Tara's Theme From 'Gone With the Wind'
- Themes From 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'
- War From 'Pearl Harbor'
- Love Theme From 'Spartacus'
- Overture From 'Lawrence of Arabia'
- Love Theme From 'Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones'
- May It Be and Themes From 'the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'
- Hedwig's Theme From 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'
- Prelude and Lara's Theme From 'Doctor Zhivago'
- Sean's Theme From 'Minority Report'
- The Magnificent Seven
Born on the Fourth of July: Music From the Films of Tom Cruise
- End Credits (Born on the Fourth of July)
- Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)
- Main Title/Car Building (Days of Thunder)
- Stay Gold (The Outsiders)
- Main Title (The Color of Money)
- The Unicorns (Legend)
- Opening/Unicorn Theme (Legend)
- Top Gun Anthem (Top Gun)
- Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
- Las Vegas/End Credits (Rain Man)
- Jordan (Cocktail)
- The Firm (Main Title)
- Code Red/Facts and Figures/Honor (A Few Good Man)
- Book of Days (Far and Away)
- End Credits (Far and Away)
Fur Elise
by: Trans-Siberian Orchestra(Instrumental)Beethoven once more relents when he realizes what he would lose. Fate then takes him to an alley outside a neighborhood tavern. It is years later and both Beethoven and Theresa are considerably older. Neither one of them has ever married. By pure chance Theresa sees Beethoven leaving a bar late at night but she does not make her presence known to him. From a distance she ponders what might have been.