Moya Brennan

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Moya Brennan (born Máire Ní Bhraonáin), also known as Máire Brennan, is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist.

She is the older sister of Pól Brennan, Enya, and Brídín Brennan.

She began performing professionally in 1970 when her family formed the band Clannad, and is considered as the "First Lady of Celtic Music".

Moya released her first solo album in 1992 called Máire, a successful venture.

She has been nominated for two Grammys and has won an Emmy Award.

She has recorded music for several soundtracks, including Titanic, To End All Wars and King Arthur.

Personal life

Brennan wrote an autobiography called The Other Side of the Rainbow in 2000, in which she recalls her upbringing as the eldest of nine siblings in rural Donegal. Along with the highs of success in the music business, she also recounts low periods where alcohol, drugs and an abortion made her re-evaluate her life. She emerged from her "dark years" as a committed Christian, with rekindled faith. She remarried in 1991, having previously been married to a Dublin musician.

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Solo career

Máire, Brennan's first solo album, was released on Atlantic Records in 1992. Misty Eyes on BGM came three years ago. Brennan signed to Word Records in 1998 and released Perfect Time, Whisper to the Wild Water, and Whisper to the Wild Water a year later. In 2001, the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. Brennan is managed by her husband Tim Jarvis and her brother Leon Braonn. Her music is generally classified as New Age or Celtic. She accepts the Celtic name but has expressed some discomfort with being seen as "New Age" as a large percentage of her music is largely Christian, with several of her songs focusing on retaining a personal relationship with Jesus. Some of her songs depict influences from her Roman Catholic upbringing or seeming relational due to her own ideas regarding Mary, the mother of Jesus.

The Other Side of the Rainbow, her autobiography, appeared in 2000. The artist was also performing her song "Perfect Time" live in Rome on World Youth Day in front of throngs of pilgrims and Pope John Paul II. The largest crowd in the Northern Hemisphere was 2.1 million people, making it the largest crowd ever assembled. As she believes in mutual reverence among Christians, she regarded it as an honor. Moya also appeared on the event's album, One. She performed a duet with Booley, now known as Duke Special. The album, titled "Peace Has Broken Out," is about Ireland's enduring challenges.

She appeared in film "Doll Me Now (What You See)" with Hans Zimmer, co-writing the title line "To End All Wars (2001) and co-producing the additional music score for To End All Wars. She appeared on "You're the One" for the film Circle of Friends in 1995 with Shane MacGowan. Brennan has collaborated with several artists, including Chicane, Alan Parsons, Bono, Robert Plant, Van Morrison, Michael McDonald, Michael McDonald, George Hornsby, George Morrison, Doobie Brothers, Joe Elliott, The Chieftains, Paul Brady, Michael Crawford, Ronan Keating, and Ronan Keating.

Brennan has released 25 albums and has sold 20 million albums. Since 2002, she has been marketing herself as Moya Brennan, a spelling closely resembling her name's phonetic pronunciation of her name for those unfamiliar with the Irish spelling, and in 2009, she officially changed her name by deed poll. She released an album titled Two Horizons in 2003 under her current moniker, Universal. She has also collaborated with dance artist Chicane on "Saltwater" for live broadcasting in the VisitScotland advertising campaign, as well as being used by Fáilte Ireland to advertise Ireland and Belfast city council, both in television ads.

On March 17, 2004, she attended the Speaker's Luncheon on Capitol Hill in front of President George W. Bush and Irish dignitaries.

She performed with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vigil in front of a million people on World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, and was also part of the official WYD CD Building on World.

The debut of her Christmas album, simply titled 'An Irish Christmas,' was announced in 2006. Brennan's album 'Signature', a year later, was described as a series of snapshots of her life. Only one Irish song was on the album, but it did feature choruses and backing vocals in her native tongue throughout.

Moya performed numerous collaborations and guest vocals on albums by Iona, Joanne Hogg, and with Grand Canal on Ireland's Official Olympic Anthem, "Green to Gold." All three albums were purchased for various charities.

Heart Strings, her 2008-to-date album, was released by her Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Julie Feeney. Moya has toured extensively in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, and England to promote the album extensively.

Brennan produced the official soundtrack to Maryland Public Television's documentary film 'Intrepid Journal,' a 50-year foreign policy project that spans 50 years of American foreign policy, from World War II to the September 11 attacks.

Cormac de Barra, a harpist and live band member, appeared on Moya's new studio album in April 2010. My Match Is a Makin' was filmed during her Netherlands tour in Spring 2010 and is only available on her tours. In 2010, the album is expected to be more widely available.

Moya Brennan revealed that she was working on a hymns album, likely for the 2010 release, and that a Clannad acoustic music album would be released in 2010. or 2011. In September, the new Clannad album will be available in 2013.

Brennan was the featured headliner for the Atlanta Celtic Christmas concert, which was broadcast live by Georgia Public Broadcasting on December 18–19, 2010. Music and dance from Irish, Scottish, and Appalachian traditions are featured at Emory University's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

On the album "Excalibur III – The Origins," written by Alan Simon, a British singer from Brittany (France), Moya Brennan appeared well. "The Origins Part I and II," "Incantations" and "Sacred Lands," she sang, in fact. In addition, she travelled to Brocéliande, Brittany, in July 2012, where she appeared as soloist at the concert "Excalibur III – The Origins."

Brennan was scheduled to appear at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC, on March 17th, 2012.

In 2013, Moya Brennan released Voices & Harps – Affinity in partnership with harpist Cormac de Barra as a sequel to the album Voices & Harps, which was released in 2011. It features brand new tunes created by Brennan and de Barra, several popular tunes in Irish, and a cover story about Christopher Cross' album "Sailing" which also serves as the album's lead single.

Brennan's first solo album in almost a decade was released in 2017. The album was co-written by her two children, Aisling and Paul, on February 24, 2017 and was accompanied by a UK, Irish, and European tour until 2018.

Brennan was a member of "Irish Women in Harmony," an Irish group of female singers and musicians who recorded a version of the song "Dreams" in 2020 in aid of the charity Safe Ireland, which deals with domestic violence, which had reportedly increased during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Moya Brennan tours with a large band of musicians who have performed solo projects in the past or have performed with their own bands. Cormac de Barra, a harpist and television presenter, is among the band's members. Two new members joined Moya's band between August 2008 and February 2009, the first changes since her debut on her Two Horizons Tour, including Irish singer Daith Rua. Aisling Jarvis, Moya's daughter, became a permanent member of her band in 2012. Aisling appears on all solo tours as well as Moya's "Voices & Harps" with Cormac DeBarra.

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