'Recluse' Enya emerges from her solitary lifestyle to attend Grammys (2024)

She has chosen to lead a solitary existence since shooting to super-stardom after the release of her global hit Orinoco Flow in 1988.

But 'recluse' Enya emerged from her low-profile lifestyle on Sunday to attendthe 59th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The 54-year-old singer, who has a fortune of £91million, dazzled in an ivory embellished gown as she posed on the red carpet.

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The singer looked as youthful as ever in the column gown, which featured a sheer overlay neckline with floral beading.

Seemingly unchanged since her musical heyday, Enya wore her raven hair in a sleek bob with a blunt fringe and framed her eyes with smoky shadow.

Enya, who is the wealthiest woman in British and Irish music,has never toured her solo material.

A friend of the secretive singer told The Sunlast year: 'She’s not exactly a barrel of laughs. You wouldn’t go for a few pints with her.'

While her uncle Noel Duggan admitted: 'We don’t see much of her. She lives like a queen. She is a recluse.'

Enya, who is renowned for her ethereal vocals, lives in the impressive Ayesha Castle in Killiney, south Dublin, which boasts stunning views of the Irish Sea.

She purchased the building for £2.5 million in 1997 and currently lives alone with only her cats for company.

Her next door neighbour is U2 frontman Bono and in a rare televised appearance on This Morning last year she joked that the rocker popped round to borrow sugar.

She previously told The Guardian: 'It's very castle on the exterior, but it's very much a home inside. It's actually a very small castle and I fell in love with it'

Her unique brand of music is created in collaboration with producer Nicky Ryan, 67, and his lyricist wife Roma.

The Irish songstress is her country's best-selling solo artist and has released nine studio albums, selling an estimated 75 million records worldwide.

She's recorded in 10 different languages including in Lord of the Rings creator JRR Tolkien's Sindarin and Quenya, as well as a language created by herself and her songwriters called Loxian.

The star's success is an anomaly in an industry where constant touring, heavy radio play and public appearances are usually required to return strong record sales.

An industry insider told The Sun: 'Throughout the music business there’s no one else who is so successful about whom so little is known. She doesn’t socialise, she’s barely seen out of the house, there aren’t any clues in her lyrics about her life.'

However, she has vehemently defended her lifestyle and approach to music.

'It's not a hanging offence not wanting to go to nightclubs,' said the singer. '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.