On May 17th: Happy Birthday Enya and...

On May 17th: Happy Birthday Enya and...

 

  • Enya (born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, anglicised as Enya Brennan; 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter who is one of Moya Brennan's younger sisters.
  • Enya began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.
  • She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1987 BBC series The Celts. Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to further international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.
  • She has performed in 10 languages. (@Wikipedia.com)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Paul Andrews (born 17 May 1958, in West Ham, London), better known as Paul Di'Anno, is an English singer best known as the first vocalist to record with the iconic band Iron Maiden, from 1978 to 1981.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

  • Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer.
  • As both a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Reznor has led the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails since 1988; he left Interscope Records in 2007 and was an independent recording artist for around five years until he signed with Columbia Records.
  • As of 2010, he and his wife Mariqueen Maandig are members of the post-industrial group How to Destroy Angels. (@Wikipedia.com)