Enigma

Biography

Than 30 million copies more sold, 50 world-wide numbers one, more than 85 platinum discs and 30 of just by the first four diamond anywhere in the world álbums in the market. This is only one small introduction to do an idea to us of the place that occupies in the musical panorama the called phenomenon ENIGMA. Able to sell almost two million copies more with a CD recopilatorio and another one of Remixes, something very rare in the present industry, after more than one decade in the summit and without the minimum intention, has consolidated like the best "nondeliberate alternative" to the commercial creations. The success of the project ENIGMA, according to its creator and director Michael Cretu, could be due to "that already from the first day ENIGMA it was nontie music to no musical current. The same one was created like a "object nonidentified", appeared this way and still it continues being it ". As he himself affirms: "My music sends signals that animate and affect" as well as that it is "for everybody. He is intellectual but it has a simplicity, naivete feeling ", being as well "music for all the senses"; reasons more than sufficient to add to the causes of its great international success. When in 1990 single of ENIGMA saw the light first, "Sadeness (part. I)", quickly began to speculate on itself on the responsibility of this new and impressive musical project. The most frequent question in the world of music was: Who or who are behind ENIGMA. The time stated that it was Michael Cretu, producer, musician and singer of origin resident Rumanian-Austrian in Spain. The provoked restlessness to unmask the person in charge of the project, that even got to become for some true obsession, was not nothing else that the indirect effect of the concept with which it had been conceived. The origin of this one the dream came to make reality that a long time ago and every time with more frequency was pronounced in the mind of its creator. In himself, the base was drawn around the conceptual model from which a type of music could be developed to the margin of convencionalismos, creative and experimental. In words of Cretu: "It wanted that the music spoke by itself", that this one was appreciated by the public without concerning the artist or artists who hid themselves after the project. Cover of first single of ENIGMA. Sadeness part. I. Therefore, in the beginning there was no reference to the implied artists, since the objective of Cretu was to maintain the anonymity, and that the public reacted of spontaneous way to his music, breaking all the rules established in this sense. It caused all class of rumors propagated by journalists and critical about whom it hid behind ENIGMA, speculating on itself with the names - among other many artists of Alan Parsons or Mike Oldfield like the mysterious creators of this so peculiar music. In spite of the reference "Curly M.C." that it appears by all the disc, nobody suspected that "Curly" there - Cretu has the curled hair of that "nickname" - and the initials of its true name "M. C." they responded to the famous producer. Spent the time one verified that all the sent theories nothing had of certain. Nevertheless, Michael Cretu saw frustrated his intentions to stay in the anonymity and to perpetuate the mystery when the music of this first album was accused of plagiarism by the fact to mix gregorianos songs with present rythmical bases. At legal level, Cretu and the branch of Virgin of Germany had to resolve this thorny subject when the choir of the city of Munich, Kapelle Antiqua, denounced to them by to have used without permission its recordings of gregorianos songs in the album, in concrete in certain fragments of "Sadeness (part. I)" and" Pisses Fault (part. II)". The subject would be solved with an economic compensation to the part victim, a retrospective request of the permissions corresponding to BMG/Ariola and Polydor by the use of these choral fragments, and an excuse in writing. In spite of it, and from the legal point of view, no had broken copyright, strictly speaking, since such recordings of the choir Kapelle Antiqua were of public dominion. However, so incident she was enough to finish with the "enigma" and the names of Michael Cretu like impeller of the project, and Sandra Cretu, their wife and his narrower collaborator, came to the public light as a result of it. And although desires of Cretu were failed in this sense, ended up gaining the case in the courts. Michael Cretu was born in Bucharest the 18 of May of year 1957. Of Austrian mother and Rumanian father, he emigrates to Germany in 1975, where he studies in the Academy of Music of Frankfurt, graduating in Theory of the Composition with honors of first class. Soon he passes to be a famous musician of study specialized in keyboards, emphasizing like arreglista and producer. Albums "Moon, Light, and Flowers" (Polygram, 1979), "Legionare" (Virgin, 1983) and "Man Hair net", English version of "Die Chinesische Mauer" initiates a race in solitaire with the publication of his (the Chinese Wall). Cover of the first album of ENIGMA. MCMXC to D. During all his race, Michael Cretu is awarded with numerous prizes and honors by his work like producer, collaborating with diverse musicians of international reputation like Mike Oldfield (Islands), Moti, Thiers and Sandra Lauer, European pop singer with whom would marry in 1988, and which also she emphasizes by his own race in solitaire. Both at the moment reside in Spain, Ibiza, and are parents of binoculars, Nikita and Sebastian, been born in 1995. Michael and Sandra continue as much with their respective musical races in ENIGMA as in other projects in solitaire or collaborating with several artists and musicians, to the own and other people's time who produce álbums in the study in their house native of ibiza in Spain (A.R.T. Studios), already habitual reference in all the libretos of ENIGMA discs and in those of all the works produced by Cretu. Like ENIGMA, its success came from the hand of this first album, MCMXC to D., where, faithful to his idea to cause that she prioritized music over the artist, did not want to use his true name nor which appeared clear references to the people implied in his accomplishment. Than 30 million copies more sold, 50 world-wide numbers one, more than 85 platinum discs and 30 of just by the first four diamond anywhere in the world álbums in the market. This is only one small introduction to do an idea to us of the place that occupies in the musical panorama the called phenomenon ENIGMA. Able to sell almost two million copies more with a CD recopilatorio and another one of Remixes, something very rare in the present industry, after more than one decade in the summit and without the minimum intention, has consolidated like the best "nondeliberate alternative" to the commercial creations. The success of the project ENIGMA, according to its creator and director Michael Cretu, could be due to "that already from the first day ENIGMA it was nontie music to no musical current. The same one was created like a "object nonidentified", appeared this way and still it continues being it ". As he himself affirms: "My music sends signals that animate and affect" as well as that it is "for everybody. He is intellectual but it has a simplicity, naivete feeling ", being as well "music for all the senses"; reasons more than sufficient to add to the causes of its great international success. When in 1990 single of ENIGMA saw the light first, "Sadeness (part. I)", quickly began to speculate on itself on the responsibility of this new and impressive musical project. The most frequent question in the world of music was: Who or who are behind ENIGMA. The time stated that it was Michael Cretu, producer, musician and singer of origin resident Rumanian-Austrian in Spain. The provoked restlessness to unmask the person in charge of the project, that even got to become for some true obsession, was not nothing else that the indirect effect of the concept with which it had been conceived. The origin of this one the dream came to make reality that a long time ago and every time with more frequency was pronounced in the mind of its creator. In himself, the base was drawn around the conceptual model from which a type of music could be developed to the margin of convencionalismos, creative and experimental. In words of Cretu: "It wanted that the music spoke by itself", that this one was appreciated by the public without concerning the artist or artists who hid themselves after the project. Cover of first single of ENIGMA. Sadeness part. I. Therefore, in the beginning there was no reference to the implied artists, since the objective of Cretu was to maintain the anonymity, and that the public reacted of spontaneous way to his music, breaking all the rules established in this sense. It caused all class of rumors propagated by journalists and critical about whom it hid behind ENIGMA, speculating on itself with the names - among other many artists of Alan Parsons or Mike Oldfield like the mysterious creators of this so peculiar music. In spite of the reference "Curly M.C." that it appears by all the disc, nobody suspected that "Curly" there - Cretu has the curled hair of that "nickname" - and the initials of its true name "M. C." they responded to the famous producer. Spent the time one verified that all the sent theories nothing had of certain. Nevertheless, Michael Cretu saw frustrated his intentions to stay in the anonymity and to perpetuate the mystery when the music of this first album was accused of plagiarism by the fact to mix gregorianos songs with present rythmical bases. At legal level, Cretu and the branch of Virgin of Germany had to resolve this thorny subject when the choir of the city of Munich, Kapelle Antiqua, denounced to them by to have used without permission its recordings of gregorianos songs in the album, in concrete in certain fragments of "Sadeness (part. I)" and" Pisses Fault (part. II)". The subject would be solved with an economic compensation to the part victim, a retrospective request of the permissions corresponding to BMG/Ariola and Polydor by the use of these choral fragments, and an excuse in writing. In spite of it, and from the legal point of view, no had broken copyright, strictly speaking, since such recordings of the choir Kapelle Antiqua were of public dominion. However, so incident she was enough to finish with the "enigma" and the names of Michael Cretu like impeller of the project, and Sandra Cretu, their wife and his narrower collaborator, came to the public light as a result of it. And although desires of Cretu were failed in this sense, ended up gaining the case in the courts. Michael Cretu was born in Bucharest the 18 of May of year 1957. Of Austrian mother and Rumanian father, he emigrates to Germany in 1975, where he studies in the Academy of Music of Frankfurt, graduating in Theory of the Composition with honors of first class. Soon he passes to be a famous musician of study specialized in keyboards, emphasizing like arreglista and producer. Albums "Moon, Light, and Flowers" (Polygram, 1979), "Legionare" (Virgin, 1983) and "Man Hair net", English version of "Die Chinesische Mauer" initiates a race in solitaire with the publication of his (the Chinese Wall). Cover of the first album of ENIGMA. MCMXC to D. During all his race, Michael Cretu is awarded with numerous prizes and honors by his work like producer, collaborating with diverse musicians of international reputation like Mike Oldfield (Islands), Moti, Thiers and Sandra Lauer, European pop singer with whom would marry in 1988, and which also she emphasizes by his own race in solitaire. Both at the moment reside in Spain, Ibiza, and are parents of binoculars, Nikita and Sebastian, been born in 1995. Michael and Sandra continue as much with their respective musical races in ENIGMA as in other projects in solitaire or collaborating with several artists and musicians, to the own and other people's time who produce álbums in the study in their house native of ibiza in Spain (A.R.T. Studios), already habitual reference in all the libretos of ENIGMA discs and in those of all the works produced by Cretu. Like ENIGMA, its success came from the hand of this first album, MCMXC to D., where, faithful to his idea to cause that she prioritized music over the artist, did not want to use his true name nor which appeared clear references to the people implied in his accomplishment.