It ' s more for special occasions now . Which is sad since that ' s only about once or twice a season . <| sep |> Oooooooh , I don ' t think a simple car wash will take care of that . 😳 <| sep |> The microwave kills all the worms . <| sep |> I don ' t mind if they are actually new players and they needed the extra help . What really cringes me is that I see the veterans as just purposely doing the same just because they are lazy to contribute into killing the dragon . <| sep |> I want it harder this time . Yeah you look like the type . <| sep |> Exactly what Boulder said , don ' t believe everything you hear , including himher . <| sep |> They ' ve been great tonight . <| sep |> Enya artist picimg 2 . akamaized . netiu 252 b 845 b 0 e 6 bcac 05 f 1 aa 5 e 9 cef 59 b 9 ffb 1 . png Eithne Patricia N Bhraonin born May 17 , 1961 in Gweedore , County Donegal , Ireland , known simply as Enya , is a Grammy award winning and Academy award nominated Irish singer , instrumentalist and composer . She began her musical career in 1980 , when she briefly joined her family band Clannad , before leaving to pursue her solo career . Her album Watermark , which was released in 1988 , propelled her to international recognition and she became known for her unique sound , which is characterized by voicelayering , folk melodies , synthesized backdrops and ethereal reverberations . Since then she has released a further nine albums , sold over 75 million albums worldwide and is known for performing in 10 different languages . Enya ' s vocal range is mezzosoprano . 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 important to Enya ' s career were 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 producerarranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan , to provide the score for a BBCTV 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 her most notable appearance was a cameo on Sinad O ' Connor ' s I Do Not Want What I Haven ' t Got . She finally released Shepherd Moons , her followup 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 . In 1997 came the release of a greatesthits 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 . In 2002 , she contributed material to the first film in Peter Jackson ' s awardwinning Lord of the Rings trilogy , scoring a hit with the single May It Be . Amarantine , her first fulllength recording since Day Without Rain , followed in November of 2005 , and has so far sold nearly five million copies . Much of the above content of this biography has been taken from amgsql 110 ifoxqe 5 ldhe ~ T 1 . After the September 11 , 2001 attacks , her song Only Time from A Day Without Rain was used as a backdrop in many radio and TV reports about the attacks . She initially frowned upon this use , especially when many bootlegged versions of Only Time mixed with sound effects from the attack began to appear . Enya eventually agreed to release a special edition of the song with funds going to the families of victims . Many Enya fans , however , are resentful that her music has been linked with the attacks an example of this occurred on a 2002 appearance on CNN ' s Larry King Live when images of battle in Afghanistan were shown on screen as she performed May It Be , a song with little war connection . This sparked some complaints within Enya ' s fan community . Enya is admittedly a slow worker when it comes to composing music . As a result , fans have had to wait as long as five years between albums . In September 2004 , a new song , set to words from a Japanese poem Roma Ryan had written and called Sumiregusa Wild Violet was unveiled in Japan as part of an advertising campaign for Panasonic . In announcing the new recording , Warner Music Japan stated that Enya ' s next album was scheduled for release in Japan at least in midNovember . Enya issued a press release on her official Web site on 19 September stating that this was a mistake and no new album was immediately forthcoming . Enya was awarded the World ' s BestSelling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006 . On February 11 , 2007 Amarantine won Enya her fourth Grammy when it was awarded the Best New Age Album award . Recent Releases In November of 2005 , a new album , entitled Amarantine , was released . It won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for 2007 . In 2006 , Enya released several Christmasthemed CDs with newly recorded material . On October 10 , 2006 , Sounds of the Season was released containing six songs the previously released Oche Chiin a . k . a . Silent Night and Amid the Falling Snow , new recordings of the standards Adeste Fideles a . k . a . Oh Come All Ye Faithful and We Wish You a Merry Christmas as well as two original songs , Christmas Secrets and The Magic of the Night . This CD was released only in the United States in an exclusive partnership with the NBC television network and the Target department store chain . In later November two new editions of Amarantine were released . In North America , it was reissued as Amarantine Special Christmas Edition with a second disc containing the four new Christmas songs previously issued on Sounds of the Season the original album already had Amid the Falling Snow while Oche Chiin is a recording dating back to 1988 which had already been featured on numerous collections . The UK received a deluxe version of this release Amarantine The UK Special Edition which also included three postcards and a copy of Roma Ryan ' s book Water Shows the Hidden Heart which is referenced on the original album . Canadian fans could choose from the Special Christmas Edition of Amarantine , or an EP entitled Christmas Secrets which only contained the four new songs . Coinciding with these releases was the relaunch of Enya ' s official website on Nov . 2 , 2006 . On November 16 , 2006 Enya mentioned on ITV 1 ' s that she is working on a new album . A month later , in a Japanese interview Enya said that the album will be a complete Christmas album and it will be released in the winter of 2007 . There is no schedule for the release date itself . Enya ' s album , And Winter Came , was released in November 2008 . It contains twelve tracks ten brand new songs plus a newly recorded choral rendering of Oiche Chiuin Silent Night and a stunning version of the traditional Christmas hymn ' O come , o come Emmanuel ' Read more on Last . fm . 1 , 239 , 739 listeners , 46 , 134 , 977 plays tags new age , celtic , female vocalists , ambient , irish Please downvote if incorrect ! Selfdeletes if score is 0 .