Enya

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Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961; anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan), known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish singer and composer. With an estimated equivalent of more than 80 million albums sold worldwide, Enya is one of the world's best-selling music artists. In addition to being the best-selling Irish solo artist, she is the second-best-selling music act from Ireland overall, after the band U2. Enya's music has been widely recognised for its use of multi-layers of her own vocals and instrumentation, lengthened reverb, and interwoven elements of Celtic music.

Over the following four years, Enya further developed her sound by combining multi-tracked vocals and keyboards with elements from a variety of musical genres, such as Celtic, classical, Gregorian chant, church, jazz, hip-hop, ambient, world, and Irish folk.

According to Billboard, Enya is one of the all-time highest-charted Irish acts on U.S charts, and is one of the highest-certified music artists by album units in the U.S. Billboard's Mark Dezzani commented in 1997, that she popularized conventional pop melodies and ethereal ethnic music, while Audio magazine credited her for helping popularize the "New Celtic" sound.
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