{"id":530209,"date":"2026-04-14T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530209\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:50:09","slug":"moya-brennan-irish-musician-dies-aged-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530209\/","title":{"rendered":"Moya Brennan: Irish musician dies aged 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irish singer Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of Grammy and Bafta-winning group Clannad, has died. She was 73.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Celtic folk singer, songwriter and harpist from the Irish-speaking Donegal Gaeltacht area of Gaoth Dobhair recorded about 25 albums and sold millions of records worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She came to prominence as part of her family&#8217;s band Clannad which formed in 1970 and later included Moya&#8217;s younger sister, Enya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group became one of the world&#8217;s foremost traditional Irish acts after finding mainstream success with the theme tunes of the TV series Harry&#8217;s Game, set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, as well as Robin of Sherwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish singer Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of Grammy and Bafta-winning group Clannad, has died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}