Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best Of Enya with Stars was released in 1997 to present Enya’s best compositions and make it easier for the fans to wait three more years for the new album to come. Meanwhile, Enya was successful at combining production of her own albums and making soundtracks for movies. She was selected as the best New Age artist and received two Grammies for Shepherd Moons, and The Memory of Trees. Enya remained in the frames of the style chosen for the first studio works and made this album in accordance with the audience’s expectations. Her next album, The Memory of Trees, was finally presented to the listeners only in 1995. It was not a fresh studio work, but a renewed version of the Enya album with slightly modified tracks. This release was followed by a long break in the singer’s studio activity. Shepherd Moons led the British charts and enlarged Enya’s audience significantly. This song was released in two versions, with lyrics in Gaelic and English. This one contained the song Book of Days (Far and Away), featured on the soundtrack to Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman starring. Enya worked hard and responsibly on the new material and made an album just as perfect as she had expected it to be. The waiting for Shepherd Moons took as long as almost two years. It was an extremely good seller and ran platinum in 14 countries. In 1988 she released her second album, Watermark, made in the same vein as the first studio work. It was a good commercial mover to open a new independent and talented performer. This work appeared so impressive that the BBC managers found it reasonable to release a compilation of Enya’s songs, named after her. In a year, she was offered to do the same for the BBC documentary on the Celtic history and culture. She became known to audience after playing soundtrack for The Frog Prince (1985). After the break up of this group, Enya moved to Dublin to develop her solo career. She started her musical career as singer and keyboardist in Clannad, a band formed by her father and elder brothers to play Irish folk music. Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin, better known as Enya, was born on in a small village of the Gweedore region in the northwestern part of Ireland.
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