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Post by Carbis Blue on Oct 22, 2023 3:10:18 GMT -5
I was in my local Lidl yesterday and saw a woman who looked excactly like Enya looked around 2007, based on the date attributed to some pics I've seen of her shopping on Grafton St in Dublin.
This made me wonder. Are there any look-alikes or tribute acts? I'm not aware of any. Given that, in all likelihood, there will never be any live shows, I would have thought there'd be a good market for a tribute act - someone with a suitably accurate voice, a big backing choir for the vocal layers and, of course, the authentic synthesizers. However, I'm not aware of such a thing. There are a few people doing covers on YouTube but, while good enough singers in their own right, they don't sound like Enya and they've not bothered getting the production right.
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Post by Moe on Oct 27, 2023 15:26:33 GMT -5
I was in my local Lidl yesterday and saw a woman who looked excactly like Enya looked around 2007, based on the date attributed to some pics I've seen of her shopping on Grafton St in Dublin. This made me wonder. Are there any look-alikes or tribute acts? I'm not aware of any. Given that, in all likelihood, there will never be any live shows, I would have thought there'd be a good market for a tribute act - someone with a suitably accurate voice, a big backing choir for the vocal layers and, of course, the authentic synthesizers. However, I'm not aware of such a thing. There are a few people doing covers on YouTube but, while good enough singers in their own right, they don't sound like Enya and they've not bothered getting the production right. Interesting idea - I don't know of any professional tribute act but yes, it would be great to see one,
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Post by イ𝑜ⳏⲁ𝑧 𝑅𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 on Oct 28, 2023 7:55:13 GMT -5
I was in my local Lidl yesterday and saw a woman who looked exactly like Enya looked around 2007, based on the date attributed to some pics I've seen of her shopping on Grafton St in Dublin. I like how that was in Lidl (There seem to be a few sightings of Enya shopping on Grafton Street in Dublin, also in 2011 and 2013. 🛍☔️ The 2007 ones mentioned are probably these.) I suppose there are a few Enya lookalikes about, just as there may be for anyone, haha. The thing is, regarding tribute acts, there is a good reason that there isn't a long-term Enya tribute act. The singers who do tend to get tribute acts are more 'bold'. Enya can be bold in some regards, especially production-wise, though no other act can match their standard, as you mentioned. 😅🪄🎶 There are many covers, which are fine and some are nice to listen to. However, those trying hard to sound like and resemble Enya (in a non-parodic way) tend to seem a bit inauthentic, no matter how well they sing or mime. Previously there have been girls who dressed up as Enya and sang a song of hers. See Holly Kirby; she performed Orinoco Flow dressed as Enya on Stars In Their Eyes in 2006, when she was 15, in this 😊🎶⛵️ and this is the full episode. She wasn't bad, but she took advantage of being from the Isle of Wight and her access to sailing, did more Enya covers after the show, wrote a dissertation on Enya, wrote a song called Carolina Blue, continued a career in Celtic/Enya-inspired folk music, all before becoming a mum. It's probably fine, but something about her claim to fame of sorts doesn't sit right with me. Anyway, the latest example I've seen is this by Julia Kamińska, in Poland earlier this year. 🌹✨️The staging is nice, though her voice isn't very interesting. Honestly I much prefer the Stay Away parody by Shirley Şerban, this The earliest example I know of is from a Portuguese programme named Chuva de Estrelas (in the 90s, which looks inspired by Stars In Their Eyes with children performing as famous singers, but some better performers in Portugal from what I've seen). I only watched this recently, and she does have a beautiful voice, singing the Africus lines in particular. 💙🎶 I suppose she didn't get as far in the competition; it's hard to even find her name (likely one of the 'unknown episodes' individuals here) ☺️ but she probably didn't get a career from appearing on the show. Back to Enya – Eithne is a shy individual, and whilst there are people who dress up as shy/cute individuals, these are fictional characters, or historical. 💡 Eithne is a real, living person. I think it would be quite insulting if someone were to perform and profit from apparently emulating and singing 'just like Enya'. Even if there's unlikely to be a tour, there is a great chance of new music from Enya, and at least some live performances to follow. 🤗🎼🎶 Actual tribute acts for her are only really acceptable " when Enya's gone" (1992 interview transcript) and hopefully there's a decent bit of time before that 😅 🌠
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Post by イ𝑜ⳏⲁ𝑧 𝑅𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 on Oct 28, 2023 8:44:08 GMT -5
On a lighter note, regarding 'helpful' lookalikes, I'm thinking less 'tribute act', more 'actresses for a biopic'.
The actresses I could best visualise as Enya are Carrie-Anne Moss (closer to present-day Eithne) and Hana Magimel (Eithne in her 20s). 🤗 I can vaguely imagine both Mara Wilson and Beanie Feldstein as 90s Enya. Also Juliette Binoche (who happens to be Hana's mother) would be amazing as Roma Ryan 🎬 Then again if it would be an Irish-language film, then a girl from Ireland or who speaks Irish would be more fitting. 🇮🇪 There was a girl from Northern Ireland on a coronavirus programme I watched in 2021 (I would share a screenshot but she was 13 at the time, and still a 'minor') who resembled younger Eithne, and walked through the woods in one shot, also talking fondly of her grandparents. I think Matilda (Brídín's daughter; Eithne's niece/goddaughter) looks so much like little Eithne too 🥰
It seems there were actual intentions of creating something like a biopic and book for Enya in 2007, in this:
It seems to have been shelved, perhaps for the better, as Enya's career has continued since 2007 😅 and there's more yet! I think 2030s at the earliest for a film to be released about the trio. Does anyone else have ideas about an Enya film? 😃🎬🎶🌠
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Post by Draíocht an Dúlra on Nov 1, 2023 14:06:24 GMT -5
There is a standing joke in Ireland that Norma Foley, the Irish Minister for Education is Enya’s doppelgänger.
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Post by Caoilte on Nov 1, 2023 18:28:53 GMT -5
OK, that's kind of funny:
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Post by イ𝑜ⳏⲁ𝑧 𝑅𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 on Nov 2, 2023 8:24:53 GMT -5
There is a standing joke in Ireland that Norma Foley, the Irish Minister for Education is Enya’s doppelgänger. I'd read about that somewhere; rather vague similarity. Norma Foley's necklaces are more like those of Theresa May but I don't know how similar their politics are, haha.
I suppose most with most of Enya's supposed dopplegängers, either the eyes or the facial shape/structure look too different. Those with similar 'doe-eyes' would've been Sinéad O Connor, and Demi Moore. I've not watched the film Ghost (1990) but knew the song Unchained Melody was featured in some pottery scene in it. I don't think she looks particularly like Enya now, and her jaw looks shorter, but with the short hair as the character Molly in that film, Demi Moore visually does resemble Enya 😅 Also see these
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Post by Caoilte on Nov 2, 2023 19:39:34 GMT -5
Those with similar 'doe-eyes' would've been Sinéad O Connor, and Demi Moore. I've not watched the film Ghost (1990) but knew the song Unchained Melody was featured in some pottery scene in it. I don't think she looks particularly like Enya now, and her jaw looks shorter, but with the short hair as the character Molly in that film, Demi Moore visually does resemble Enya 😅 I definitely agree about the resemblance to Demi Moore, around the era of Ghost. Particularly the photos in the booklet for The Celts (reissue, 1992), I see the resemblance especially. Demi, is that you?
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Post by RichardF on Nov 3, 2023 0:56:46 GMT -5
Re Doppelgangers and the Late Sinead O'Connor . 'Speaking to ShowBizIreland.com this week Sinead explained why she did it. "I've been trying to let it grow but last week someone came up to me in Lillies and asked me was I Enya. I was so shocked by this that the minute I got up on Monday I shaved all my hair off and now look exactly like I did when I came into the pop business first. "She went on, "Which is kind of ironic as I have just finished my latest traditional style album which is called "SEA NOS NUA". It is also cool as I have just recorded a song with Moby, who is a fellow skinhead." '
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Post by イ𝑜ⳏⲁ𝑧 𝑅𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 on Nov 6, 2023 11:50:01 GMT -5
Interestingly it was said that Sinéad wanted Demi Moore to play her in a biopic www.smoothradio.com/news/music/sinead-oconnor-demi-moore-biopic/💭
How about the other way (as in people born before Enya/who passed away before)? 😌 I think Enya looks similar to Laura Branigan, or at least related. Not quite the same 80s hair, but features-wise similar, the insightful soft-spoken interviews, and even some similar music videos. A song that Laura Branigan wrote herself, If I Were (1986) is like something between Orinoco Flow and On Your Shore by Enya, released on Watermark a couple of years later. 🌊💭 Also the actress Gina Lollobrigida, as mentioned somewhere in an article, and here, haha. Many old actresses whom Enya kind of resembles: sort of Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamaar, Yvonne Mitchell (she played Oscar Wilde's wife in this 1960 film) and of course, Audrey Hepburn, more so in the earlier appearances. 🎬✨
Living actresses: perhaps Juliet Cadzow (Edie McCredie in the Scottish children's show Balamory), Peta Toppano (someone mentioned the similarity in an Australian 70s-80s show called Prisoner Cell Block H), and Madhur Jaffrey (she is now 90, and was also an icon for Indian cookery on TV in 1980s Britain). 😊
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Post by Caoilte on Nov 7, 2023 17:26:13 GMT -5
Also the actress Gina Lollobrigida, as mentioned somewhere in an article
Ah yes...one of my favorite old articles!
"Enya, more beautiful than she appears to be"
(Unfortunately, the Internet Archive doesn't seem to have saved the second pic from that article....It was the most beautiful one, too!)
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