![]() Since then she has lived in Artane, in the north of Dublin, sharing a house together with Nicky Ryan and Roma, his wife, who comes from Belfast. ![]() Perhaps she was fed up with being treated as just the little sister. She performed with Clannad on many occasions, until, in February 1982, on completing a European tour, she left the group, no one really knowing why. Apart from providing vocals, she played the Wurlitzer electric piano and later the Prophet 5 synthesizer. In 1980, at the suggestion of their manager, Fachtna O’Kelly, Enya became a member of the group, participating in the recording of two of their albums, Crann Ull and Fuaim. The group was named Clannad, a contraction of “the family from Gweedore” in Irish. Three of her brothers and sisters, Máire Ní Bhraonáin (Mary Brennan), Ciarán Ó Braonáin (Kieran Brennan) and Pól Ó Braonáin (Paul Brennan) formed, together with their uncles Pádraig Ó Dugáin (Patrick Duggan) and Noel Ó Dugáin (Noel Duggan), a folk music group (at first with a certain American feel and then more purely Irish, though influenced by jazz and by others such as Pentangle). Whilst at school, Enya studied the piano and classical music. All the family have won many competitions and are famous in national traditional circles. ![]() Apart from Enya, who is in the middle, there are four other girls and four boys. ![]() Known as Enya – was born in 1961, 17 May, and spent her childhood in Gweedore (in County Donegal, situated in the north-west of Ireland, one of the main redoubts of the Irish language). ![]()
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