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"Amarantine" is a single by Irish musician Enya, taken from the album of the same name. The word is taken from ancient Greek and means everlasting or immortal (the same as the amaranth flower). The single was released in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2005.
Amarantine received mixed reviews from critics, but it was a commercial success and reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, where it sold one million copies in its first month of release, and No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart. Enya released two singles from the album, "Amarantine" and "It's in the Rain". A Christmas Special Edition ...
Loxian is a fictional artistic language and alphabet created by Irish poet and lyricist Roma Ryan.A longtime recording and business partner of Irish singer-songwriter and musician Enya, she created the language during the production of the latter's sixth studio album, Amarantine (2005).
Amarantine and Dark Sky Island include songs sung in Loxian, a fictional language created by Roma Ryan, that has no official syntax. Its vocabulary was formed by Enya singing the song's notes to which Roma wrote their phonetic spelling. [139] Enya adopted a composing and songwriting method that has deviated little throughout her career.
Enya is the debut studio album by Irish singer, ... meaning "little fawn", ... was released in 2005 as a B-side for Enya's 2005 single "Amarantine". It was released ...
Only Time: The Collection is a box set from Irish singer, songwriter and musician Enya, released on 5 November 2002 in the United States and on 2 December 2002 in Europe. [1] [2] The set contains 51 tracks across four discs that spans her 1987 debut album Enya through her 2002 single "May It Be".
In others, including the UK and Ireland, the single was released in November 2006, to promote the re-issue of the Amarantine album. This edition had a different single cover and was a double A-side with the traditional carol Adeste Fideles. Enya performed the song at the 2006 World Music Awards.
Enya singled out "Fallen Embers" as her favourite track on A Day Without Rain. She knew it was a particularly strong track when she presented it to Roma, who understood the emotion that she tried to put across musically. After Roma finished its lyrics, Enya recalled, "It was so moving to actually sing them". [11]