In Focus: Enya

Continually pitched as an oddity by the press throughout her career, Donegal-born Enya tapped into a public desire for music that ventured beyond the traditional strictures of pop. It resulted in enormous commercial success - with a series of beloved albums she became the biggest selling Irish artist of all time. Having been immersed in the Irish traditional music canon from birth, she married these sounds with modern synthesisers and dense vocal layering techniques and birthed a sound simultaneously futuristic, and bogged, sodden in the mists of Celtic history. This In Focus is an hour long trip through the Celtic futurist melodrama of Enya.