12/17/2022 0 Comments Clannad band![]() ![]() She recorded 17 albums with Clannad and has won a Grammy, a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award with the quintet. Brennan was at the forefront of the group's success and her voice suddenly became synonymous with Celtic music and Irish music. After enjoying a decade of being among the world's foremost Irish musical groups, Clannad graduated to chart success in 1982 with the album Magical Ring. They were introduced to television by Irish musician and broadcaster Tony MacMahon. In 1970, Brennan joined her two brothers Pól and Ciarán, and their mother's twin brothers Noel and Pádraig Ó Dúgáin, and eventually formed Clannad. Moya performing with Clannad at the Leeds Folk Festival, 1982 She has also taught music at Holy Cross College in Falcarragh, County Donegal. After leaving secondary school, Brennan spent a few years at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin studying the harp, the piano and singing. She also took part in pantomimes at the local Amharclann Ghaoth Dobhair (Gweedore Theatre). She sang along with her siblings in the family pub, Leo's Tavern in the village of Meenaleck, a short distance from the family home. ![]() She has four sisters, Deirdre, Eithne (better known as Enya), Olive and Brídín, and four brothers, Ciarán, Pól, Leon and Bartley. Her mother Máire (née Ní Dhúgáin or Duggan in English) was a music teacher and her father, Leo Brennan, was a member of a cabaret band with whom she performed as a child. Máire grew up as the eldest child of a musical family in the remote parish of Gweedore ( Gaoth Dobhair), a Gaeltacht area in County Donegal, where the Irish language and tradition continue to flourish. Máire Philomena Ní Bhraonáin was born on 4 August 1952 in Dublin after her parents eloped from County Donegal to marry in County Louth. ![]()
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