Enigma (musical project)

Enigma is an international music project of the German - Romanian music producer and composer Michael Cretu in the fields of electronic music, New Age, in which his former wife Sandra partially takes over the chanting. Since 1999, Andru Donalds sings for Enigma.

History

The first album MCMXC A.D. appeared in 1990 in Europe and 1991 in the U.S. and was a very short time to the worldwide surprise success. MCMXC A.D. became the number one in 41 different countries and received 57 times platinum and 45 gold medals. The debut single Sadeness Part I managed not only in Germany at number one, but also in many other countries such as France and Great Britain. In the U.S., the single went to number 5

With the release of the first single was unknown who is behind the project, as the protagonists still published under pseudonyms. After a few days first suspicions were raised, after which it should be the voice of the singer Sandra. Only after weeks, the presumption had become loud that it could be a project of Michael Cretu. After months of publicly expressed and confirmed that Enigma entstamme his forge. In fact, it was a joint project of Michel Cretu ( Curly MC) and the Hamburg producer Frank Peterson success (F. Gregorian ), who was then still a keyboardist with Sandra. By Frank Peterson then got the idea to mix Gregorian choirs under the music. Frank Peterson but got out after the first album from the project in order to devote himself to his own new project Gregorian.

Michael Cretu said in an interview that he enjoyed it, that you can only know his music, but he still can still walk unrecognized through the streets.

To date, the studio albums are more or less successful internationally.

Enigma is not only more than 40 million records sold, the most successful music project of all time, but also served as a precursor for many other artists that Michael Cretu followed the path of meditative, religious -themed ambient music, which is often referred to as ethnic.

Discography

Studio albums

Awards

• Echo 1991 in the category " National Artist / Group or in abroad "
• 1992 in the category "Marketing"
• 1994: in the category " National Artist / Group or in abroad "
• 1997: in the category " National Artist / Group or in abroad "