"The Memory of Trees" is an album by Enya, released in 1995. It won the Grammy Award for "Best New Age Album" of 1997. The album primarily combines New Age, Celtic and pop music genres. Its cover art was inspired by a painting called "The Young King of the Black Isles" by Maxfield Parrish, whose work has inspired many of her music videos as well."The Memory of Trees" is an album by Enya, released in 1995. It won the Grammy Award for "Best New Age Album" of 1997. The album primarily combines New Age, Celtic and pop music genres. Its cover art was inspired by a painting called "The Young King of the Black Isles" by Maxfield Parrish, whose work has inspired many of her music videos as well.false2025-10-04 00:43:18The Memory of Trees19951995-11-211995-11-2157New Age11132421108914946da8e-73bc-4399-b10d-61803bfe7bd74967c0a1-b9f3-465e-8440-4598fd9fc33cb0254fd5-2a7e-3546-9243-9861bbd5b60e/media/data/media2/Music/Enya/The Memory of Trees/folder.jpgEnyaEnyaEithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan; born 17 May 1961), known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. Noted for her modern Celtic music, she is the best-selling Irish solo artist and the second-best-selling Irish musical act overall after the rock band U2.
Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gaoth Dobhair, Enya began her career in 1980 when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad. She left Clannad in 1982 to pursue a solo career with Clannad's manager and producer, Nicky, and Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Over the following four years, she developed her sound by combining multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of musical genres such as Celtic, classical, church, new age, world, pop, and Irish folk.
Enya's first solo projects included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince (1985) and the BBC documentary series The Celts (1986), which was released as her debut album Enya (1987). She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her considerable artistic freedom and minimal interference. The commercial and critical success of Watermark (1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped mostly by the international hit single "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)". This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995), and A Day Without Rain (2000). Sales of A Day Without Rain and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in media coverage of the 9/11 attacks. After Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came... (2008), Enya took a four-year break from music, returning in 2012 to begin work on her eighth studio album Dark Sky Island (2015).