Singles released from the album were "Anywhere Is" and "On My Way Home". Four years after Shepherd Moons, she released The Memory of Trees (1995), another top five success in both the UK, as well as her first top 10 album in the US. In 1992, a re-mastered version of the 1987 Enya album was released as The Celts. Three years later, Shepherd Moons followed.
Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, containing the hit song "Orinoco Flow" which topped the charts in the United Kingdom. That collection is certified platinum in the US, where it won the Academy Award® for Best Original Score and the Grammy® for Best Score Soundtrack Album.Featured: "Trains and Winter Rains", "My! My! Time Flies"įeatured: "Amarantine", "It's In The Rain"įeatured: "Storms In Africa", "Orinoco Flow"Įnya has released eight studio albums, three compilation albums, twenty-one singles and a number of other appearances.
May It Be arrives just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Fellowship Of The Ring and its popular soundtrack. The other track, Isobella, is a rarity that can be found on the Japanese edition of A Day Without Rain. The First Of Autumn is an instrumental that appears on the original studio album. A No 2 smash on the US Billboard 200, the album has sold more than 16 million copies and is ranked as the best-selling new-age album of all time. She agreed and began writing what would become May It Be with her longtime producer/arranger Nicky Ryan and her lyricist, Roma Ryan.Įmbraced by fans and critics alike, May It Be would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Original Song a Golden Globe® Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.Įnya recorded the other two songs featured on the May It Be single while making her fifth studio album, A Day Without Rain. Peter Jackson asked Enya to write a song for The Lord Of The Rings. Based on the popular JRR Tolkien novel of the same name, the award-winning movies were directed by Peter Jackson and scored by composer Howard Shore. The Lord Of The Rings film trilogy is among the most successful in cinematic history. The single will be released on 3 December and is available to order HERE. The 12″ EP will also include the two Enya songs that featured as B-sides to the single at the time – Isobella and The First Of Autumn – making their first appearance on vinyl. Enya is to release a picture disc featuring May It Be from the soundtrack of The Lord Of The Rings to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the film.
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