This week I’m looking at an artist who has had an insane and from the outset, probably completely unpredictable level of success. She’s also someone who creates a completely different kind of music to anyone else I’ve looked at this season. I’ve decided to look at Enya, partly because she is one of my favourite artists, but also because of the way her music has been sampled in hip hop.
Being an outsider to the worlds who have sampled her, meant Enya almost got cut out of the credit she deserved but instead it ended up making her a huge amount of money and landing her a place in history as one of the most unique composers and artists of a generation. Her incredible legacy and net worth have fascinated people as she hasn’t toured, she does very little press and generally operates in totally different ways to the conventions of her worlds. As one vice reporter put it: Have you ever wondered how a reclusive Irish new age artist outsold Aretha Franklin?
This is a lesson in music, by Enya.
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