Enya has sold more than 80 million albums throughout her career, but the Grammy Award winner seems to prefer the quiet life these days.
The Irish singer-songwriter, 64, lives alone in a castle in Dublin, Ireland, alongside her 12 cats, according to a Sunday, March 22, report in the Daily Mail.
While the “Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)” hasn’t ever married nor had children, she reportedly resides in a six-bedroom property — Manderley Castle in Killiney, a coastal suburb in South Dublin — which boasts picturesque views of the Irish Sea.
“I open those shutters, and the sea, it’s different every day,” the “Only Time” singer told BuzzFeed in 2015. “It’s very inspiring to me. I just look at the view, and if it’s overcast and raining, no matter: I never tire of it.”
Enya also told the outlet her bedroom is her favorite room in the castle, which she bought for a reported $4.1 million.
While she only has her cats for company inside her plush pad, Enya previously opened up about her neighbor, U2 frontman Bono, 65.
Speaking on British TV show This Morning in 2016, as per the Daily Mail, she joked, “He comes around for the sugar.”
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She also said of her castle: “It is in a beautiful site on a hill, and it’s overlooking the Irish Sea. It’s very inspirational, I have to say.”
Enya’s last public appearance was at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
A year earlier, her late uncle Noel Duggan told The Sun: “We don’t see much of her. She lives like a queen. She is a recluse.”
But Enya previously admitted she isn’t interested in fame and prefers a quiet life away from the cameras.
In 2000, she told The Guardian, “My private lifestyle bothers a lot of people. It’s not a hanging offence not wanting to go to nightclubs. What happened to choice?”
“My choice is that after a certain amount of promotion, I feel it gets very false and then I’m not interested,” she added. “When the album has been out for, say, 10 months, people will start focusing on me and I really don’t want that. I love the music to be known, but I’m not after fame for myself.”
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