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When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

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Enya
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 17
Composer
Film Score Composer
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Gaoth Dobhair
Eithne Ní Bhraonáin
Enya Brennan
Eithne Ni Bhraonain
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
Eithne Padraigin Ni Bhraonain
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Mum
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My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.
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The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
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The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.
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My first language is Gaelic.
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I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.
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I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.
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The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.
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The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
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I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
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I don't need a man in my life.
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I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
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