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Post by maytriloxia on May 24, 2022 16:26:10 GMT -5
A fairly random question but a good one to have a think about: How were you initially introduced to Enya? (Even if it wasn't 'til later that you became more of a fan) Was it through hearing one of her songs on the radio, watching a music video, a recommendation from a friend, or even meeting her in-person first? Can you remember how, perhaps the year, or where you were too?
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Post by Riene on May 24, 2022 22:19:46 GMT -5
Heard her. Husband and I used to listen to a radio station that played "New Age" type music and we head The Celts on it.
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on May 25, 2022 4:51:36 GMT -5
I think either way, I would have seen an image of Enya first, then listened to the music ๐ When I discovered Enya on YouTube it was this video that was recommended to me (so I would have seen the YouTube thumbnail first). This was only in February 2021 Only Time was the first Enya music video I saw in full ๐คฉ I had definitely recognised 'sail away, sail away, sail away' โต๏ธ from Orinoco Flow before 2021, and though I might have seen some of it on a children's TV programme (something on the CBeebies channel, haha). Answering the question, I would have seen Enya more than a decade before! A few months ago I figured out that I must have come across Enya's music when I was little! It would have been in 2008. (Enya did perform Trains and Winter Rains on Children In Need that year, but very late/early in the morning, so I probably didn't see it, and probably not on the various ITV talk shows either). I was watching an episode of Space Pirates: Music To Relax To , where they played a clip of Orinoco Flow, but shortened (without the 'turn it up, adieu' bit). I still recall being quite drawn to the song, even without knowing that much about the music or Enya. *They play a little hologram-like clip of the featured artists in the Space Pirates theme tune near the beginning of the episode, before the music video appears. I suppose that would been the first time I would have seen Enya! ๐ถ
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Post by jens on May 25, 2022 6:58:22 GMT -5
In 1988 I used to listen to Orinoco Flow. In 1992 I heard Book of Days on a tape while driving with a friend. I said that sounds similar to Orinoco Flow. He said: "Yep. It is the same singer." In 1995 I saw TMOT on MTV. That was the start to buy her albums, 2000 was the start to collect her. Final point of that development was the personal meeting in Hamburg 2005.
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Post by bigwiglaf on May 25, 2022 8:58:28 GMT -5
Jens, you lucky guy, actually meeting her...
Me, I saw her first, the Orinoco Flow video on MTV way back when they used to predominantly play videos...
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Post by Suvi on May 25, 2022 9:18:13 GMT -5
My first Enya experience dates back to Watermark era as the Finnish radio played Orinoco Flow and my little sister (then aged only two!) "sang along" the chorus in her own way: "Se on WC, WC, WC...". Therefore "Sail away" became "it's a toilet, toilet..."! But, back then I did not have a clue who the singer was nor what the song was, until 1996 when TMOT was released. It was the first Enya album I bought, now knowing a bit more about the singer! Suvi
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Post by Moe on May 25, 2022 9:19:35 GMT -5
Heard her music first. During a stressful time at work, a colleague of mine handed me a cassette tape of Watermark. I listened to it that evening and was hooked!
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Post by Isabel on May 25, 2022 14:40:44 GMT -5
I am a 90s kid born in 1990. I must have been 5 or 6-years old... I vaguely remember a marching melody and the umbrellas in a video playing in my schools multimedia room. That was the 'Anywhere Is' music video.
My teacher also played Enya's music in art class to keep us from arguing and fighting with each other.
I also found some forgotten mixed tapes/cassettes with Enya's music in my late Grandmother's study room on the farm. I was about 10-years old and had my own Walkman cassette player.
I also looked Enya and the Beach Boys up on Microsoft's Encarta. Children was not allowed to roam free on google back then...
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Post by maytriloxia on May 25, 2022 16:41:40 GMT -5
Wow, a great variety of responses just in the last 24 hours, glad I'd asked this! Also lovely to see the responses since, too
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Post by smileyanna on May 26, 2022 10:37:57 GMT -5
I heard and saw her on TV! (But I probably heard her music before, because I recognized Orinoco Flow from the TV, even though at that time I didnโt even know the title of the song.)
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Post by Draรญocht an Dรบlra on Jun 4, 2022 4:42:02 GMT -5
I had heard of Enya first. I knew that she was one of the Brennan family and I remember her being interviewed on The Late Late Show during The Celts period. Next thing I remember was OF on Top of the Pops but it was on hearing Storms in Africa on the radio that got me hooked. I bought Watermark at that point.
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Post by yankee on Jun 29, 2022 14:50:26 GMT -5
Cruising down route 290 in Worcester, MA in my Karman Ghia when Orinoco Flow was played on the radio. HOOOOOKED! Around 1986 AKA 20th century for those of you who weren't born yet...
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Post by Riene on Jul 1, 2022 17:00:16 GMT -5
Cruising down route 290 in Worcester, MA in my Karman Ghia when Orinoco Flow was played on the radio. HOOOOOKED! Around 1986 AKA 20th century for those of you who weren't born yet... You had a Ghia! Those are pretty rare around here!
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on May 16, 2023 8:57:16 GMT -5
As mentioned before, I likely saw Enya (on TV) first ๐๐บ๐ถ Imagine though, there might be many (younger/ future generations) who will hear Enya first. ๐ถ๐๐๐ญ That could be through streaming, hopefully still have radio for some time, and some other music-playing software. ๐
๐ต Still, in the nearer future, I think she will make a few more television appearances (at least in the UK and Ireland) for the promotion of the new album, and have more of a fun time doing those ๐ถ
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Post by ๐ชทaestas๐ชท on May 16, 2023 20:26:49 GMT -5
I was 13 in the year 2000 and listening to the radio when Orinoco Flow started playing, they never said who's song it is but I liked it so much that I recorded it onto a cassette even though I didn't manage to record it from the beginning because it started just like that and I had to find a cassette. I thought it's a song by a female group because of the multilayering. A year later The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring movie came out featuring Enya's May It Be and I liked it the way I liked Orinoco Flow but I didn't realize it was the same artist. But then knowing that May It Be is by someone called Enya and I liked it I looked into this artist called Enya and became a fan and eventually realized that the song I recorded onto a cassette a year earlier is by Enya too. A Day Without Rain had just come out too so Only Time was playing a lot in the radio too and I obviously liked it too. I can't remember did I hear it in the radio first or when I bought the album A Day Without Rain.
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