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21 November 1985
Amarantine is the sixth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter and musician Enya, released on 21 November 2005 by Warner Bros.
The album was Enya's first of her career not to include a song sung in Gaelic, her first language. "Amarantine" is a love song, of which its title is a word that Enya said addresses the idea of everlasting and love.
Amarantine features Enya singing in two new languages for the first time. "Sumiregusa (Wild Violet)" is sung in Japanese, and its opening bars are taken from an arrangement of the hymn "Hark! The Vesper Hymn Is Stealing" by the Irish composer John Andrew Stevenson. The album also marks the creation of Loxian, a fictional language created by Roma Ryan during the development of "Water Shows the Hidden Heart".
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