"Wild Child" was given the hardcore techno treatment by Eurodance duo CJ Crew. "Boadicea" formed the basis of Fugees ' career-best "Ready or Not," and rather sneakily without the hip-hop trio asking first. In fact, think of any Enya song, and it's no doubt been borrowed by an unlikely suspect. And she's been sampled, namechecked or championed by artists as eclectic as industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle, death metallers Blood Incantation and the many-monikered rapper, Diddy. She's now talked about in the same circles as Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and Dead Can Dance 's Lisa Gerrard, singers that, unlike Enya, were immediately celebrated for pushing their remarkable voices to new otherworldly places.
The modern-day consensus is that her ethereal blend of Celtic folk, classical and pioneering use of lush, multi-layered synths - developed in conjunction with long-term creative team Nicky and Roma Ryan - spearheaded a new age for, well, New Age. Or it could be that her music has often been snootily dismissed as the aural equivalent of a bath bomb.īut over time, the four-time GRAMMY winner born Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin has received a deserved critical reevaluation.
Maybe it's because she's never played a single live show in her four-decade career. Perhaps that was due to her image as a reclusive castle dweller. Enya never used to be considered the epitome of cool.
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