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| Michael Cretu being interviewed in 2003.Michael Cretu, also known as Curly M.By the year 2001, Michael Cretu had sold over 100 million albums.He owns a recording studio, the A.Background
Cretu studied classical music at Liceul Nr.He later attended the Academy of Music in Frankfurt, Germany from 1975 to 1978, attaining a degree in music.Among his other work, Cretu was also one of the producers of Mike Oldfield's 1987 album, Islands, specifically on the sixth track, "The Time has Come" and the producer of Peter Schilling's 1989 album, The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime), specifically on the first track, "The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime)".Cretu met his future wife Sandra Lauer (later Sandra Cretu) when he was playing keyboards on the Arabesque live touring show."Maria Magdalena" which topped the charts in 21 countries.The band was simply called Sandra, although Sandra's full name is now often used for filing and identification purposes.In 1998, Cretu once again teamed up with Jens Gad (they previously worked together on Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!Cretu as a solo artist
Cretu's first solo release was the single Wild River, in 1978.This album had German lyrics and was sung by Michael.Harald Steinhauer and mastered by Armand Volker.Cretu's third solo album was entitled Die Chinesische Mauer, and was released in 1985.Cretu was approached by Paramount Pictures to write the soundtrack for the movie Sliver and he came up with another 1993 single, Carly's Song, the title of the track based on the character of the leading actress in the movie.Although Jens Gad had been working with Cretu in the earlier albums, this was the first time that he had been credited on the album.Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits and Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection.Welcome" was released in anticipation of another album.External links
The Official Enigma website (in German)
Michael Cretu at the Internet Movie Database
EnigmaMusic.Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Curly M.This page was last modified 21:23, 4 January 2008.See Copyrights for details.Michael Cretu is probably best known for his world famous Enigma project.On this
completely unofficial web site, we have information about the albums, the lyrics
for the songs, and even some articles about the music videos associated with the
more or less legendary songs.Only know a few words from the lyrics?Maybe you want
a couple of Enigma albums, or you're looking for some of Michael Cretu's solo work
before he started his project?Our shopping section gives you
all that, as well as albums from his wife, Sandra, Enigma DVD's, and other stuff.Enigma or Michael Cretu ?Enigma is not a band but a project.It was started years back by a man named
Michael Cretu.He made himself a philosophy and started to create music from it.The word 'Enigma' is actually greek and translates into
Riddle.This desire was however
quickly spoiled by the popularity of the project.Biography for Michael Cretu
Maybe you have come to wonder who Cretu is, or maybe you know a little about him,
but want to learn more?Michael Cretu was born on May 18th, 1957 in Bucharest, which is the Capital of
Romania, Europe.After earning
a degree in Germany, he realized that classical music wasn't for him, and he
changed his style.Working with a couple of other artists, David Fairstein in
particular, he created some music that no one knew would become the great success
it did.Cretu had not yet hit the top, though.On his second album in the Enigma name,
The Cross of Changes, you find one of the most popular tracks he ever made.Now working more closely
with Jens Gad, Cretu began work on the fourth album.This album featured various samples from
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, and was host to the hit songs Gravity of Love and
Push The Limits.In this album, Cretu gave many subtle answers about his opinions
considering the world today.ATB may be one of the artists
you want to look into.He has also produced the hymn for the most prestigeous soccer
tournament in the world for clubs, The Champions League.Mini Biography:
This German hit producer is married to one of Germany's greatest singers...Thank you for sharing your concerns.Thank you for flagging this video.Per our Community Guidelines, hate speech is specifically defined in reference to "protected groups."In order to process a privacy complaint we need more information from you.You know this reminds me of the early years of Underworld.Haare Brille huuuaaaaah lolololDer Song ist trotzdem Klasse.Would you like to comment?The code changes based on your selection.Maggie Reilly with Mich...Andru Donalds
When Michael listened to his voice he immediatly wanted him for
his next Enigma IV project.All Out Of Love (radio edit) 4:00
2.All Out Of Love (slow ambient mix) 4:18
4.Simple Obsession (deep cutz club mix) 4:34
3.Simple Obsession (summer breeze club mix) 6:07
4.Ebony
Michael Cretu did in 1980 the arrangment and the production for this record from Ebony.Michael Cretu
with Michael Kunze.Remark: 8 songs arranged incl.Produced by Harold Steinhauer.Gordy (Reiner
Kohler) died in 1995 from cancer.Mireille Mathieu
You will proberly wonder what has Michael Cretu and Mireille Mathieu in
common?The music is from Michael Cretu the lyrics are from the well known German
song writer Michael Kunze.Jens did the arrangments and programming while Michael Cretu was responsable for the production.The Captain Of Her Heart (steady groove mix) 3:45
3.Michael Cretu
on keyboards !The album is also produced by Michael Cretu together with Harold Steinhauer.Tommi Ohrner the wellknown actor Zachi Noy and the even so
popular and much talked about beautiful actress Sonja Martin.The single taken from the 1983 summer movie has been arranged by Michael Cretu.Michael Cretu is not credited anywhere else in the booklet then by the
track listing.The title track of the album by the way is sang by Bonnie Tyler.For her album Midnight Sun she used the track Every Single
Heartbeat (music by Michael Cretu, lyrics from Hubert (KaH) Kemmler).Producer Robert Jung wrote the lyrics and the music by Harold Steinhauer and
Michael Cretu.Rosanna comes from Westerwald in Germany and was at this time 21 years old.Produced by Joachim Neubauer and Robert Jung.Hubert thought this song would be
ideal for Michael Cretu so they went to him to produce it !The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) 3:54
B.Long Version 6:40
2.Single Version 3:49
2.Michael Cretu to do the
arrangments.This instrumental song was writter by Harold Steinhauer
and Franz Trojan himself.Juliane Werding and the music
by Michael Cretu.SANDRA Fan Connection 1989..."Michael Cretu being interviewed in 2003."Michael Cretu being interviewed in 2003.Michael Cretu, also known as Curly M.May 18, 1957 in a suburb of Bucharest, Romania), is a
Romanian musician best known as the creator of the
Enigma project.By the year 2001, Michael Cretu had sold over 100 million albums.Studios situated within a private home of Michael and Sandra Cretu, on the
Ibiza island.He
later attended the Academy of Music in Frankfurt, Germany
from 1975 to 1978, attaining a degree in music.Cretu was taken on as a keyboard player and producer for Frank Farian, the German mastermind behind successful acts of the 1970s and
1980s such as Boney M and Milli
Vanilli.Cretu met his future wife Sandra Lauer (later Sandra Cretu) when he was playing
keyboards on the Arabesque live touring show.Bernd Steber and Gunter Wagner.Cretu as a solo artist
Cretu's first solo release was the single Wild River, in 1978.Harald Steinhauer and mastered by Armand
Volker.Cretu's third solo album was entitled Die Chinesische Mauer, and was
released in 1985.The literal English translation of the title is "The Chinese Wall", or as
it is better known, "The Great Wall of China".This album was also released as a separate album with English lyrics and a different track
listing under the name "The Invisible Man".Billboard charts and dropped off 2 years after their second album, The Cross of Changes was released in 1993.In 1996, Enigma's third album, Le Roi Est
Mort, Vive Le Roi!Stylistically, it sounded like a combination of the first and second album, but
failed to achieve the same level of success.Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits and Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection.By then Cretu was undecided if he should continue with the project, but eventually he came up with Voyageur in 2003.This is the 6th album under the Enigma
project.For the Ultimate
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