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Name:
ANUNA
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February 17, 2006
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About Me:
Anuna remain one of the most unusual musical voices around today. Not classical, not folk, not world, not Celtic. They spent 18 weeks at number one in the Irish charts in 1994 with the single "Riverdance", and entered the U.K. top 10 the same year.
Much of the music is exotic and unusual, spanning over 1000 years of history and their uniquely beautiful vocal sound has resulted in multiple collaborations with artists such as Secret Garden, The Chieftains, Sinead O Connor and Elvis Costello, to name but a very few. They have also won an Irish National Entertainment Award for Classical music in their own country, and been nominated for a Classical Brit Award in the UK. Their own albums have charted in the Irish charts and in UK and US Specialist charts over the last 10 years. They have appeared on three Grammy Award winning albums, twice with the Chieftains.
The choir have had around 180 members in total since 1987, and tour with between 11 and 14 singers. Their shows are very different to any other show that a choir would attempt to do. The group are costumed in cloaks and long gothic-style dresses for the women, and sub-star trek uniforms for the men. They use the entire venue when performing, and the atmosphere is electric. The albums, of which there are around 10, are hugely varied and in 2006 Anuna released SENSATION, their first original album since 2000. This has been described as "a major leap forward" [Hot Press] and "an agile leap into the unknown" by The Irish Times. In Autumn 2007 Anuna undertook a two month tour of the USA, and their programme "Anuna - Celtic Origins" continues to be broadcast nationwide there on PBS. In late 2008 in the USA Anuna released a CD/DVD and PBS Christmas Special entitled "Christmas Memories" which was broadcast on 80% of US PBS Channels and remains in the top ten Billboard World Music charts.Due later in early 2009 is a spiritual record entitled "Sanctus", a DVD entitled "Invocations of Ireland".
The official Anuna site is at www.anuna.ie.
Formation Date:
September 23, 1987
Record Label:
Danú
Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
Michael McGlynn
Hometown:
Dublin
Country:
Aruba








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Thank you so much for all these posts. We were in Rotterdam, Luxor theatre, at your performance and it was amazing!
(Inna Conway from Russia)
another beauty from anuna!