Roma Ryan
Roma Shane Ryan was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and is a writer and poet and the author of many lyrics for the Irish musician and singer Eithne Ní Bhraonáin ( Enya ).
Youth and musical development
The birth of the musical career of Roma Ryan is closely associated with the Irish band Clannad. Máire, Ciarán and Pól Ó Braonáin, under the stage name Moya, Kieran and Paul Brennan became known later, founded together with their uncles, the twins Noel and Patrick Duggan, the band, the traditional Irish songs with influences of American jazz and Folk played.
From 1980, also played the younger sister of the Braonáinzweigs, Eithne, now known under the name Enya, in the group with. Since 1979, Nick Ryan, Roma's husband, as a technician there.
The rise of the young musician was similar to later in the Kelly Family in Germany; so the musicians were known as The Family of Gweedore first regionally and then called themselves "An Clann As Dobhair " ( The family of Dore ) and, under the name Clannad since their European tour in the 80s and international resonance. Already at that time headed Roma Ryan started writing lyrics for some songs of the Group. In February 1982, the keyboard player of the band, Eithne Ní Braonáin, and Nick got out as a sound engineer of the band and settled in the north of Dublin, where they rented a house in the small town of Artane.
Roma Ryan's husband decided to install his own music recording technology in the common domicile, the Aigle Recording Studio. The in-house technology enabled the three in the position most effectively cooperate by Roma Ryan wrote the lyrics, Eithne Ní Braonáin wrote the compositions thereto, and the pieces were then recorded in their own studio in legwork and mixed sound technically. Here in this time, the idea arose to the background of later success pieces of Eithne Ní for the Braonáin sung in her clear voice compositions conferred by these novel effects their own musikalischatmosphärische transparency, which ultimately contributed to the success of later publications.
During this time the still experimental projects of the three parties participated in a separate, difficult to copy style. Roma Ryan started writing lyrics in Gaelic, which should be the hallmark of the formation later. Over the years, came also add Celtic, Welsh and Catalan poetry, which is based on epoch-making models. In addition, there were also Japanese penned songs. Verses like those of Afer Ventus, Pax Deorum or Cursum Perficio were written in Latin. Also, by literary languages like Elvish filled Roma Ryan Seals with their lives, atmospheric accompanied by the sound and effects processing by Nick Ryan.
Since that time the name Enya is not - as is often assumed - for Eithne Ní Braonáin alone, but for the co- production:
" Eithne Ní Braonáin ( compositions and arrangements ), Roma Ryan ( lyrics ), and Nick Ryan ( Music Production and Mix) "
The as interpreter of the " Labels Enya " -emergent outward interpreter Braonáin raised in this statement of their success always according to show that the final product without the participation of the other would not be nearly feasible, and that Enya is to be regarded as a project of the formation of three.
International rise
At Ryan's suggestion to make the very first instrumental pieces Enya's a movie soundtrack, contact David Puttman came about. And so Enya has been able to contribute a variety of songs to the soundtrack of "The Frog Prince ".
Roma Ryan and her husband created in 1985, the first product of the joint collaboration, the music for the U.S. film " The French Lesson". But the breakthrough came in the following year, with the order of the music for the BBC documentary "The Celts" ( The Celts ), was first put their qualities as a poet of minority languages to demonstrate at the Roma Ryan.
1987 originated most of the lyrics for " Watermark ", which brought the WEA Music until a year later on the music market. From Ryan's spring and the verses to the song " Orinoco Flow " by the trio achieved worldwide attention come. From this time on the other path was mapped out - every plate was a success.
A tragic awareness reached " Only Time " ( text below). The written by Roma Ryan song was coupled on September 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks in the United States, from the album " A Day Without Rain ", accompanied to his contemporaneous events with comments by the reporting of U.S. radio stations and remixed. Used around the world in this version of the radio stations as an anthem against terror, the reputation of the author alone Ryan this popular remixes for ranges in all continents.
As a basis for the creation of Amarantine created Roma Ryan loxische the language that was spoken by inhabitants of a distant, previously unknown planet. Inspired by JRR Tolkien's Elvish she created for this project, a separate alphabet and wrote in the resulting sparse " vocabulary of Loxischen " lyrics for three songs that translated the record into English accompanied, documented in a book entitled "Water Shows the Hidden Heart ".
Music
Discography
Film Music
- "Green Card - sham marriage with obstacles " (1990) music River, Watermark, Storms in Africa
- " Far and Away " (1992) Piece Book of Days
- "The Age of Innocence " (1993 ) Song Arrangement Marble Halls
- " Oiche Chiun " (1996) Silent Night sending Christmas Day In The Morning, BBC 1
- " May It Be " (2002) song from the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
Awards
- Multiple Grammys
- Oscar nomination for the song " May It Be "
- See also Enya