Storms in Africa

"Storms in Africa" is a song by the Irish singer Enya, featured on her 1988 album Watermark. The song was released as a single in the UK in June 1989 and reached #41.

Originally sung in Irish on the Watermark album, the song was re-written with English lyrics and re-arranged to a faster tempo for its single release, subtitled "Part II". For a time, a re-issue of the Watermark album included both versions although the original version has been featured on various collections rather than the English mix.

The song was included on the soundtrack for the Peter Weir film Green Card (1990) along with "River" and "Watermark", both also from the same Enya album.

For a time, Ansett Airlines, Australia used the song as its theme prior to its collapse in 2001.

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

  • "Storms In Africa" at Discogs (list of releases)

  • 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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    Storms In Africa (II)

    by: Enya

    Language: English
    Though I walk through
    warm sands in Africa
    winds will grow soon
    to storms in Africa.
    How far to go
    I cannot say.
    How many more
    will journey this way?
    Dark skies fall on
    black earth and ivory.
    Far from your sun
    clouds now close over me.
    How far to go
    I cannot say.
    How many more
    will journey this way?
    Storms have come!
    rains wash the earth away
    Dark skies fall down
    into another day.
    Rains have now come
    from storms in Africa
    Time will go on
    through Storms in Africa




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