May It Be

Song: May It Be Artist: Enya May it be an evening star Shines down upon you May it be when darkness falls Your heart will be true You walk a lonely road How far you are from home Morni ut¨²li Believe and you will find your way Morni alanti A promise lives within you now May it be the shadow's call Will fly away May it be your journey on To light the day When the night is overcome You may rise to find the sun Morni ut¨²li Believe and you will find your way Morni alanti A promise lives within you now A promise lives within you now I like Enya's voice very much. It sooths my soul and gives me a peace of mind. The first time that I heard her song was The Memory Of Tree. But it was Amarantine that made me like her songs. According to wikipedia, Enya was born into a musical family in Ireland. Her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band. Her mother was an amateur musician. Enya is an Irish singer and songwriter. She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist. 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. She is an international star. Rebecca 2007 Autumn In USA (Thank IceRose for the templet)

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回复虔谦的评论:

Thank you.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family,


Rebecca

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Greetings Rebecca, happy Thanksgiving!

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回复静谧海湾的评论:

Good evening to you.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family,

Rebecca

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Good morning, 贝卡.

Like May It Be and Enya very much.

Have a nice Tuesday,

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I like Enya's voice which can sooth my soul and give me a peace of mind. The first song I heard was The Memory of Tree sung her. Ever since I heard Amarntine, I began to like her songs.

Enya was born into a musical family. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, a popular Irish show band; her mother was an amateur musician.

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Enya

Enya (born Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin on 17 May 1961, Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland), sometimes presented in the media as Enya Brennan, is an Irish singer and songwriter. She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and is officially the country's second biggest musical export.Her works have earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination. Enya is an approximate tranion of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Irish, in the Donegal dialect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya

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Enya's Hobbies

Enya loves cats. In an interview published in 1988, when asked about pets, she replied: "I've got a cat. I love cats; at one stage I had 12. It was just bliss. They'd all lie around in the sun and then come up and climb around my neck."

Enya's favorite classical composer is Sergei Rachmaninoff. Her hobbies include watching romantic black and white films, collecting artwork, reading, and painting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya

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Enya

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.

　　Enya is from Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland, which she left in 1980 to join the Irish band Clannad, the group that already featured her older brothers and sisters. She stayed with Clannad for two years, then left, hooking up with producer Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan, with whom she recorded film and television scores. The result was a successful album of TV music for the BBC. Enya then recorded Watermark (1988), which featured her distinctive, flowing music and multi-overdubbed trancelike singing; the album sold four million copies worldwide. Watermark established Enya as an international star and launched a successful career that lasted well into the '90s.

　　Enya was born into a musical family. Her father, Leo Brennan, was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band, a popular Irish show band; her mother was an amateur musician.

　　Most importantly to Enya's career, was her siblings, who formed Clannad in 1976 with several of their uncles. Enya joined the band as a keyboardist in 1979, 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. 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.

　　Enya didn't receive much notice, but Enya and the Ryans' second effort, Watermark, became a surprise hit upon its release in 1988. "Orinoco Flow," the first single, became a number one hit in Britain, helping the album eventually sell eight million copies worldwide. Enya spent the years following the success of Watermark rather quietly. She finally released Shepherd Moons, her follow-up to Watermark, in 1991. Shepherd Moons was even more successful than its predecessor, eventually selling over ten million copies worldwide; it entered the U.S. charts at number 17 and remained in the Top 200 for almost four years.

　　Again, Enya was slow to follow up on the success of Shepherd Moons, spending nearly four years working on her fourth album. The record, entitled Memory of Trees, was released in December of 1995. Memory of Trees entered the U.S. charts at number nine and sold over two million copies within its first year of release. 1997 saw the release of a greatest-hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, which featured two new songs. Enya's first album of new material in five years, Day Without Rain, was released in late 2000.

http://edu.sina.com.cn/en/2005-07-08/173733829.html

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恩雅

1961年5月17日，恩雅出生在爱尔兰西北部的Gaeltact。恩雅的父母亲在自组乐团中担任萨克斯风手及钢琴演奏，巡回爱尔兰，苏格兰，英格兰等地演出，表演五六十年代的歌曲。恩雅自小修习古典钢琴，在充满音乐气息的环境中成长。

　　1980年Enya打消进入音乐大学的念头，而加入由姐姐，两个哥哥及双胞胎叔叔所组成的家族乐团 Clannad担任键盘手。将爱尔兰传统民谣予以重新编曲为特色的 Clannad，由其强烈突出的特色在爱尔兰，英国及欧洲等地拥有权威的地位。

　　恩雅在才华洋溢的家族成员压力下，欲寻求更自由的创作空间，1982年她离开了 Clannad 另觅发展。她离开 Clannad 后与乐队经理人Nicky Ryan(制作人)及其妻Roma Ryan(作词人)组成三人创作组，继续开创个人事业。

　　恩雅的音乐生涯真正开始于为 David Puttnam 的电影《青蛙王子》写配乐。虽然那一次在电影中并没有出现她自己演奏的乐曲，但在电影原声带中却收录了两首恩雅自己演奏的乐曲。　

　　1986年，英国BBC-TV开拍一部有六部分反映历史、文化的变革对凯尔特人冲击的纪录片。该片力邀恩雅为其配乐。后来，一部分精选的乐曲以“Enya”为专辑名发行，这是恩雅的第一张专辑，不过当时几乎没人注意到。

　　呼之欲出的个人才情嬴得国际性唱片公司WEA的一张合约。1988年正式推出首张个人专辑[Watermark]，仍由默契搭挡 Nicky Ryan 担任制作。这时恩雅就真正步入其发展的快速期，先后发行了[Shepherd Moons]，[The Celt]，[The Memory Of Trees]，[Paint The Sky With Stars]。她曾接受多家电台的采访。

　　恩雅的音乐被乐迷所喜爱。1993年2月，第35届葛莱美奖揭晓，Enya的[Shepherd Moons]专辑无庸置疑地拿下最佳New Age专辑奖。Enya推出的专辑[The Memory Of Trees]，在第39届葛莱美奖第二次获得最佳New Age专辑奖。

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