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The first Enigma album, MCMXC a.D., was recorded in eight months and incorporated Gregorian chants mixed with atmospheric music and dance beats. Cretu secured a deal with Munich-based Mambo Musik to handle Enigma's management and publishing. Studios, was built, and Cretu began work on a new, worldbeat and new age musical project named Enigma with David Fairstein and Frank Peterson. In 1988, Cretu and Sandra married and relocated to the Spanish island of Ibiza.

īy the late 1980s, Romanian-born German musician and producer Michael Cretu had collaborated with several musicians, produced albums recorded by his then-wife, German pop singer Sandra, and released solo albums under his name for Polydor and Virgin Records, to varying levels of commercial success across Europe. The project has also received three Grammy Award nominations. Įnigma has sold over 8.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US and an estimated 70 million worldwide with over 100 gold and platinum certifications. Its eighth album, The Fall of a Rebel Angel, was released in November 2016. Seven Lives Many Faces (2008) followed and contained a mixture of classical and modern elements ranging from ethnic chants to rap and dubstep influences. This evolution culminated with Voyageur (2003), its fifth and more pop-based album, and A Posteriori (2006), a work inspired by the future collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, with distinct operatic tones and an electronic spectrum closer to Voyageur than the earlier releases. Enigma's fourth album The Screen Behind the Mirror (2000) started a slight departure from the previous world music themes towards a heavier electronic atmosphere. The first was The Cross of Changes (1993), which incorporated tribal and ethnic influences and sold over eight million copies worldwide, followed by Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! (1996), which blended the Gregorian chants reminiscent of the first album with the strong intercultural soundscapes present in the second.

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with a series of albums that involved several musicians and producers working with Cretu. According to Cretu, the inspiration for the creation of the project came from his desire to make a kind of music that did not obey 'the old rules and habits' and presented a new form of artistic expression with mystic and experimental components. The album remains Enigma's most successful, helped by the international hit single ' Sadeness (Part I)', which sold twelve million units alone. (1990), with contributions from David Fairstein and Frank Peterson. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, MCMXC a.D. Cretu had released several solo records, collaborated with various artists, and produced albums for his then-wife, German pop singer Sandra, before he conceived the idea of a new-age, worldbeat project. Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu.

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