I’ve felt, I get to write the song, I sing. James Cameron, he approached and sent the script, but what happened was when we were talking about the end song, it was to be a collaboration and that’s something that I’ve actually never done. “I was sent a script and they were actually working with some of my music as they were filming. Last year we got some insight from Enya on why she declined to participate on “Titanic” in a Wall Street Journal interview: Céline Dion, who was no stranger to movie songs in the 1990s, sang “My Heart Will Go On”, the film’s signature song written by James Horner and Will Jennings.» The rest is, as they say, history. Horner composed the soundtrack having in mind Enya’s style Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø performed the wordless vocals on the soundtrack. Via Wikipedia: «Their relations were cold after their first cooperation in ”Aliens”, but the soundtrack of ”Braveheart” made Cameron overlook it. I’ll start with the ending When Enya declined “Titanic”, Cameron brought James Horner in on the project. It is an interesting part of New Age music history. Here we’re going to answer why she did it. She said no to James Cameron and the mega blockbuster. It is quite strange – given what we know today – that an artist would turn down an opportunity to participate in the “Titanic” (1997) movie, one of the biggest titles in movie history.
