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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回複虔謙的評論:

Thank you.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family,


Rebecca

[虔謙]

Greetings Rebecca, happy Thanksgiving!

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回複靜謐海灣的評論:

Good evening to you.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family,

Rebecca

[靜謐海灣]

Good morning, 貝卡.

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，恩雅出生在愛爾蘭西北部的Gaeltact。恩雅的父母親在自組樂團中擔任薩克斯風手及鋼琴演奏，巡回愛爾蘭，蘇格蘭，英格蘭等地演出，表演五六十年代的歌曲。恩雅自小修習古典鋼琴，在充滿音樂氣息的環境中成長。

　　1980年Enya打消進入音樂大學的念頭，而加入由姐姐，兩個哥哥及雙胞胎叔叔所組成的家族樂團 Clannad擔任鍵盤手。將愛爾蘭傳統民謠予以重新編曲為特色的 Clannad，由其強烈突出的特色在愛爾蘭，英國及歐洲等地擁有權威的地位。

　　恩雅在才華洋溢的家族成員壓力下，欲尋求更自由的創作空間，1982年她離開了 Clannad 另覓發展。她離開 Clannad 後與樂隊經理人Nicky Ryan(製作人)及其妻Roma Ryan(作詞人)組成三人創作組，繼續開創個人事業。

　　恩雅的音樂生涯真正開始於為 David Puttnam 的電影《青蛙王子》寫配樂。雖然那一次在電影中並沒有出現她自己演奏的樂曲，但在電影原聲帶中卻收錄了兩首恩雅自己演奏的樂曲。　

　　1986年，英國BBC-TV開拍一部有六部分反映曆史、文化的變革對凱爾特人衝擊的紀錄片。該片力邀恩雅為其配樂。後來，一部分精選的樂曲以“Enya”為專輯名發行，這是恩雅的第一張專輯，不過當時幾乎沒人注意到。

　　呼之欲出的個人才情嬴得國際性唱片公司WEA的一張合約。1988年正式推出首張個人專輯[Watermark]，仍由默契搭擋 Nicky Ryan 擔任製作。這時恩雅就真正步入其發展的快速期，先後發行了[Shepherd Moons]，[The Celt]，[The Memory Of Trees]，[Paint The Sky With Stars]。她曾接受多家電台的采訪。

　　恩雅的音樂被樂迷所喜愛。1993年2月，第35屆葛萊美獎揭曉，Enya的[Shepherd Moons]專輯無庸置疑地拿下最佳New Age專輯獎。Enya推出的專輯[The Memory Of Trees]，在第39屆葛萊美獎第二次獲得最佳New Age專輯獎。

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