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Title: 65 Million albums sold and still balling (130 MB.rar hookup)
Post by: Matrix Heart on March 24, 2005, 10:22:51 AM: (http://hamradio.online.ru/rw6at/2003/enya.jpg)

Background

Enya's real name is Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin. She was born on May 17, 1961 in the parish of Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), Co. Donegal in the Gaeltacht region of Ireland. She has 4 brothers - Ciarán, Pól, Leon, Bartley - and 4 sisters - Máire, Deidre, Olive and Bridin.

Her grandparents led a traveling band that played in small villages around Ireland. "They went from town to town, but they'd spend quite a bit of time in each place," said Enya. "Whenever Grandma, who was a drummer, got pregnant, she would wait there until the baby was born and then catch up." Both her parents were also involved with music. Her mother Máire (nicknamed, Baba) used to play in a dance band. After the band broke up, she became a music teacher at the Gweedore Comprehensive School. Her father Leo had been a member of a show band (the Slieve foy band), before he opened a tavern.

Early years

Enya was steeped in Irish music, performing on stage from the age of three. From her eleven years, she attended a convent boarding school in Milford run by the Loretto order, where she was studying piano and classical music. At the age of seventeen, she continued her study of music at college. She had spent a year studying classical music with Father O'Cheallaigh before, on suggestion of Clannad's manager Nicky Ryan, she joined Clannad. The family group featured her twin uncles Pádraig and Noel Ó Dugáin, older brothers Ciarán and Pól Ó Braonáin and her sister Máire Ní Bhraonáin. Enya provided mainly backing vocals and played the Wurlitzer electric piano, later she used the synthesizer, Prophet 5. Enya stayed with Clannad for almost two years, toured with them and participated in the recording of albums Crann Ull and Fuaim. After a European tour in 1982, Enya announced that she would leave the band, the reason being that they wanted to put "rock" in the music and she didn't like that at all. She had a great desire for it to be classical, and she decided it was time for her to leave. At the same time, Clannad split with their long time manager and producer Nicky Ryan. In his belief that Enya had talent in her own right, she moved to live with him and his wife Roma to Dublin, and develop her own musical career.

1982 - 2001

Enya began writing songs in 1982-3, learned the saxophone and played the classical piano. In 1984, her two instrumentals Miss Clare Remembers and An Ghaoth On Ghrian were released on Touch Travel cassette in the limited edition of only 5000 copies. Miss Clare Remembers appeared also on Watermark, but An Ghaoth On Ghrian hasn't been released again. Later, Roma, who had found the songs very "visual", sent the tape of Enya to David Puttnam, who was looking for someone to compose the soundtrack to his next movie The Frog Prince. Attracted by the demo tape, he offered the work to Enya. She had composed sweet romantic music for the film, but then all the music was orchestrated, and she wasn't very satisfied with the result. It wasn't until she started working with the BBC on a documentary series The Celts that she was able to do the proper arrangements that she wanted to do on the music. This soundtrack was released separately as an album titled simply Enya, with the song I Want Tomorrow as a single. In Ireland, it ranked second in the album chart, next to U2's Joshua Tree. In 1986 Rob Dickins, chairman of Warner Music UK, heard the album, and fell in love with it. He met Enya by chance at an Irish awards ceremony outside Dublin, declared his admiration, and promptly signed her. "I signed her as an artist without any commercial potential at all," said Dickins. "I was just a fan." One year later, Enya released Watermark. Orinoco Flow, the first single, became a surprise number one hit in Britain and the album climbed to no.5 in the UK charts. Watermark introduced Enya worldwide - it has sold millions copies and has gone platinum in fourteen different countries.

Enya spent the years following the success of Watermark rather quietly until she returned in 1991 with the UK chart-topper Shepherd Moons. The album with songs Caribbean Blue and Book Of Days as singles has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and won Enya her first Grammy. Another album The Memory Of Trees was released in 1995. It won Grammy for The best New Age album, sold over 2 million copies in its first year of sale and entered the U.S charts at no.9. Two years later, Enya released a Best Of compilation called Paint The Sky With Stars which featured two new tracks (Only If..., Paint The Sky With Stars) and a three CD collection called A Box Of Dreams. The CDs entitled Oceans, Clouds and Stars covered Enya's career since 1987 to 1997.

Her last studio album entitled A Day Without Rain was released in 2000. The track Only Time was used in news coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Later, a remix of the track was released as a single with all of the money from it going to the International Association of Firefighters. A Day Without Rain also won Best New Age Album at the 2002 Grammy Awards and it is Enya's best-selling album to date. With more than 12 million units sold worldwide, this brings her total album sales to 60 million albums for her career.

In 2001, Peter Jackson asked Enya to write two songs for his movie adaptation of the first part of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Enya, being a fan of Tolkien, agreed, and contributed to the soundtrack of The Fellowship Of The Ring with Aníron and May It Be. May It Be was also nominated for an Oscar.

http://enya.szm.com/about.htm
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: 'EclipZe on March 24, 2005, 10:24:24 AM: LOOOOOOOL
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: eS El Duque on March 24, 2005, 10:26:44 AM: Quote from: EclipZe on March 24, 2005, 10:24:24 AM
LOOOOOOOL
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: white Boy on March 24, 2005, 12:52:09 PM: fuck enya
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Suffice on March 24, 2005, 12:53:35 PM: is she Gaelic or Celt or whatever they're called?
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Capo Di Tutti I Capi on March 24, 2005, 01:09:51 PM: She looks like a ghost
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: 'EclipZe on March 24, 2005, 01:21:00 PM: ^ Haters ! :D
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Matrix Heart on March 24, 2005, 01:25:22 PM: Quote from: white boy aka Christopher Columbus on March 24, 2005, 12:52:09 PM
fuck enya

I wish :D
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: West Coast Veteran on March 24, 2005, 01:52:01 PM: fuck that hobbit
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: kellyboy on March 24, 2005, 03:00:13 PM: LOL...impressive numbers though
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Leggy Hendrix on March 24, 2005, 03:05:57 PM: you really cant argue with the numbers man...damn...

and if it wasn't for her, the Fugees woulda never made the classic "Ready Or Not"...gotta respect it...
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Suga Foot on March 24, 2005, 03:55:45 PM: My mom likes Enya. We played enya at my grandfathers funeral. She's definitley doin her own thing, but it's not really my thing.
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: doubletrouble™ on March 25, 2005, 01:32:22 AM: Quote from: K A I N on March 24, 2005, 01:25:22 PM
Quote from: white boy aka Christopher Columbus on March 24, 2005, 12:52:09 PM
fuck enya

I wish :D

lmao.......he didn't mean it that way.............. :)
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Throwback on March 25, 2005, 02:03:55 AM: i thought this thread was gonna be about dipset..
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: 'EclipZe on March 25, 2005, 02:05:54 AM: ^ bout somethin much better 8)
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Jar Jar on March 25, 2005, 03:20:04 AM: :spam2: :sleep: ....
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Elevz on March 25, 2005, 03:47:15 AM: Quote from: K A I N on March 24, 2005, 01:25:22 PM
Quote from: white boy aka Christopher Columbus on March 24, 2005, 12:52:09 PM
fuck enya

I wish :D

She's what, like 60 years old? That's what she looks like to me...

I'm glad to see K A I N created a thread about something other than Dipset. You get a prop for that. Grannysex is disturbing though.
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Matrix Heart on March 25, 2005, 05:44:07 AM: Quote from: Elevz the Funkadelic brother on March 25, 2005, 03:47:15 AM
Quote from: K A I N on March 24, 2005, 01:25:22 PM
Quote from: white boy aka Christopher Columbus on March 24, 2005, 12:52:09 PM
fuck enya

I wish :D

She's what, like 60 years old? That's what she looks like to me...

I'm glad to see K A I N created a thread about something other than Dipset. You get a prop for that. Grannysex is disturbing though.

Your new here ^ that's why.

Enya was born on May 17, 1961 (next time read)

She is a MILF minus the M.
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Inspire / Moss on March 25, 2005, 05:38:13 PM: lmao @ this thread
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: K.Dub on March 25, 2005, 06:02:33 PM: ??? wtf? Ain't this a HIP HOP forum? Not some Celtic shit.. ::) :o
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Shallow on March 25, 2005, 06:10:48 PM: Quote from: KDub on March 25, 2005, 06:02:33 PM
??? wtf? Ain't this a HIP HOP forum? Not some Celtic shit.. ::) :o

Well this is the outbound forum, and even if it was exclusive to hip hop Paradox already said how her music influenced the Fugees' Ready or Not, or should I say how the Fugees stole her composition Boadicea and looped?
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: K.Dub on March 25, 2005, 06:18:29 PM: Quote from: Shallow on March 25, 2005, 06:10:48 PM
Quote from: KDub on March 25, 2005, 06:02:33 PM
??? wtf? Ain't this a HIP HOP forum? Not some Celtic shit.. ::) :o

Well this is the outbound forum, and even if it was exclusive to hip hop Paradox already said how her music influenced the Fugees' Ready or Not, or should I say how the Fugees stole her composition Boadicea and looped?

But still...
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Matrix Heart on March 25, 2005, 07:28:53 PM: Tupac was dancing to Enya in ballerina class, so this is hip hop related.

8)
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: 'EclipZe on March 26, 2005, 12:12:22 AM: Quote from: K A I N on March 25, 2005, 07:28:53 PM
Tupac was dancing to Enya in ballerina class, so this is hip hop related.

8)

^LOL
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Elevz on March 26, 2005, 02:56:02 AM: Quote from: K A I N on March 25, 2005, 05:44:07 AM
Quote from: Elevz the Funkadelic brother on March 25, 2005, 03:47:15 AM
Quote from: K A I N on March 24, 2005, 01:25:22 PM
Quote from: white boy aka Christopher Columbus on March 24, 2005, 12:52:09 PM
fuck enya

I wish :D

She's what, like 60 years old? That's what she looks like to me...

I'm glad to see K A I N created a thread about something other than Dipset. You get a prop for that. Grannysex is disturbing though.

Your new here ^ that's why.

Enya was born on May 17, 1961 (next time read)

She is a MILF minus the M.

Yeah, I'm new here. Joined the board only yesterday. ::)

I couldn't care less if she's mid 40's or somewhere in 60's, if she looks like she could have been my grandma, it's a disturbing thought u would hit that :-*
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Darksider on March 26, 2005, 03:06:11 AM: :-*
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Florez on March 27, 2005, 02:29:23 AM: She's definitely doing her thing can't hate on that, fuck the haters
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: K.Dub on March 27, 2005, 03:46:56 AM: Quote from: Florez on March 27, 2005, 02:29:23 AM
She's definitely doing her thing can't hate on that, fuck the haters

Yeah, but it ain't HIP HOP..
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Bomb-A® on March 27, 2005, 06:07:54 AM: Quote from: Sabotage K A I N on March 25, 2005, 07:28:53 PM
Tupac was dancing to Enya in ballerina class, so this is hip hop related.

8)

LMMFAO....thats the funniest shit i heard all day

peace
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Kill on March 27, 2005, 06:21:06 AM: Quote
Outbound Connections
Diversify and discuss non West Coast rap related music topics here.
(and that includes other genres outside hiphop!)
Moderators: WestCoastVeteran, Kill, OpTiCaL
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Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Kill on March 27, 2005, 06:26:35 AM: Quote from: doubletrouble on March 25, 2005, 01:32:22 AM
Quote from: K A I N on March 24, 2005, 01:25:22 PM
Quote from: white boy aka Christopher Columbus on March 24, 2005, 12:52:09 PM
fuck enya

I wish :D

lmao.......he didn't mean it that way.............. :)
wow, how´d you figure that...i don´t see anything hot about enya at all

Quote from: Jar Jar on March 25, 2005, 03:20:04 AM
:spam2: :sleep: ....
how´s this spam? I´d listen to enya rather than to the shit in your sig
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Trauma-san on March 27, 2005, 03:17:22 PM: What the fuck man. This is a RAP message board, nobody wants to hear about some queer coffee house music. STICK TO RAP!!!
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Kill on March 28, 2005, 06:40:45 AM: Quote from: Trauma on March 27, 2005, 03:17:22 PM
What the fuck man. This is a RAP message board, nobody wants to hear about some queer coffee house music. STICK TO RAP!!!

thank you for sarcastically delivering your message once again. A slight modification of that joke would be appreciated, I suggest you take this into consideration ::)
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Florez on March 28, 2005, 09:43:30 AM: KAIN finally you're of Dipset diznets and sucking on enya's tiznits. I give you a prop because your fucking hilarious.
Peace
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Trauma-san on March 28, 2005, 03:01:08 PM: Quote from: Kill on March 28, 2005, 06:40:45 AM
Quote from: Trauma on March 27, 2005, 03:17:22 PM
What the fuck man. This is a RAP message board, nobody wants to hear about some queer coffee house music. STICK TO RAP!!!

thank you for sarcastically delivering your message once again. A slight modification of that joke would be appreciated, I suggest you take this into consideration ::)

Who are you?
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Matrix Heart on March 28, 2005, 08:45:17 PM: Quote from: Trauma on March 28, 2005, 03:01:08 PM
Quote from: Kill on March 28, 2005, 06:40:45 AM
Quote from: Trauma on March 27, 2005, 03:17:22 PM
What the fuck man. This is a RAP message board, nobody wants to hear about some queer coffee house music. STICK TO RAP!!!

thank you for sarcastically delivering your message once again. A slight modification of that joke would be appreciated, I suggest you take this into consideration ::)

Who are you?

lol you always say that hick.
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: CRAFTY on March 29, 2005, 02:00:24 AM: I've bought a special collectors edition of Enya songs last year...it's actually pretty good. A lot of you are talking about her looks and this & that, but if you would just take some time to listen to her music, you'd be amazed of how good it actually is (not all of her songs though).

It surprises me that only a few producers have sampled her music, because there are plenty of catchy melodies in her songs which could be sampled for a hip-hop song.
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Elevz on March 29, 2005, 02:16:30 AM: Quote from: CRAFTY on March 29, 2005, 02:00:24 AM
I've bought a special collectors edition of Enya songs last year...it's actually pretty good. A lot of you are talking about her looks and this & that, but if you would just take some time to listen to her music, you'd be amazed of how good it actually is (not all of her songs though).

It surprises me that only a few producers have sampled her music, because there are plenty of catchy melodies in her songs which could be sampled for a hip-hop song.

Hook us up with some of her best? ;D

Props in advance
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling
Post by: Kill on March 29, 2005, 03:27:18 AM: Quote from: Trauma on March 28, 2005, 03:01:08 PM
Quote from: Kill on March 28, 2005, 06:40:45 AM
Quote from: Trauma on March 27, 2005, 03:17:22 PM
What the fuck man. This is a RAP message board, nobody wants to hear about some queer coffee house music. STICK TO RAP!!!

thank you for sarcastically delivering your message once again. A slight modification of that joke would be appreciated, I suggest you take this into consideration ::)

Who are you?

great comeback. like Kain says, you´re just oblivious of the existence of the vast majority of members on here and you just flip that so it makes the others look like unimportant newbies. Really, you´ve made very good contributions to this board, but coming into every other non-hiphop topic with the same old joke makes you look lame, try-hard and kinda reminds me of those bitter semi-cynics specialized in being whiny and covering that with a thick layer of coolness. Now I know you can do different, like you did in my Green Day topic, and it´s dope that there are people interested in that type of stuff, all I´m saying is get off that same old joke you´ve made a hundred times, cause it started making you look like a fool after the first few. Maybe I´m alone with my opinion though and your "yo nigguh, fucc dis, its all about hiphop"´s are always welcomed and profusely appreciated by anybody else. I´d be sorry then, all I´m doing is speaking my mind
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling (130 MB.rar hookup)
Post by: Matrix Heart on March 29, 2005, 06:03:29 AM: Kill > Dr. Phil ;D

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Enya - A Day Without Rain
Enya - Adiemus
Enya - Angels
Enya - Anywhere Is
Enya - Boadicea
Enya - Book of Days
Enya - Braveheart Theme
Enya - Caribbean Blue
Enya - Celtic Rain
Enya - China Roses
Enya - Club Dance Mix
Enya - Dreams
Enya - Evening Falls
Enya - Exile
Enya - Fallen Embers
Enya - Flora's Secret
Enya - From Where I Am
Enya - Lothlorien
Enya - May It Be
Enya - Now We Are Free
Enya - Only If
Enya - Only Time
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars
Enya - Return To Innocence
Enya - Sadness
Enya - Shepherd Moon
Enya - Silver Inches
Enya - Storms In Africa
Enya - Sweet Lullaby
Enya - The Memory of Trees
Enya - Watermark
Enya - Wild Child
)(Enigma-Enya - Club Dance Mix
)(Sarah McLachlan - Fallen
)(Sarah mclachlan - World On Fire (junkie xl radio mix)(
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling (130 MB.rar hookup)
Post by: Kill on March 29, 2005, 09:02:15 AM: Quote from: Sabotage K A I N on March 29, 2005, 06:03:29 AM
Kill > Dr. Phil ;D

thank you. here´s a prop :D
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling (130 MB.rar hookup)
Post by: Elevz on March 29, 2005, 02:07:03 PM: Only 239 karma to go and you'll be positive again! 8) ;D

Props for the hookup ;D
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling (130 MB.rar hookup)
Post by: Matrix Heart on March 29, 2005, 02:56:35 PM: Quote from: Elevz the Funkadelic brother on March 29, 2005, 02:07:03 PM
Only 239 karma to go and you'll be positive again! 8) ;D

Props for the hookup ;D

If I had my old stats back I would be around 2000 post -600 :D
Title: Re: 65 Million albums sold and still balling (130 MB.rar hookup)
Post by: Kill on March 30, 2005, 07:56:26 AM: Quote from: Sabotage K A I N on March 29, 2005, 02:56:35 PM
Quote from: Elevz the Funkadelic brother on March 29, 2005, 02:07:03 PM
Only 239 karma to go and you'll be positive again! 8) ;D

Props for the hookup ;D

If I had my old stats back I would be around 2000 post -600 :D

yeah, you´re good at attracting hate without even doing a lot

i´ll give you a prop on that :cheers: