

“Enya” is the most pronounceable version of the singer’s real name, but the name is more than only that. “Orinoco Flow,” sometimes known as “Orinoco Flow (Sail Away),” helped make her a household name in the genre of new age music, though Enya herself reportedly has never been fond of the “new age” label. Watermark has sold over 11,000,000 copies (depending on whose numbers you believe), and has been reissued three times.


alone, an amazing feat considering that she doesn’t undertake a live tour for each new album. A former member of the legendary Irish family band Clannad, Enya, the notoriously private singer who doesn’t tour and rarely performs in public, has sold some 80,000,000 records worldwide, more than 25,000,000 of them in the U.S.
