Enigma

In the 80s, a native of Romania, Mihai (Michael) Cretu was successfully engaged in music - a professional keyboardist, arranger and composer, he released his own albums, produced others - for example, Mike Oldfield's Islands, and also helped with recordings for his wife. singer Sandra from the Arabesque group. However, by the end of the 80s, the inspiration, according to Cretu, began to leave him, and the time was to invent something new. Cretu's colleague David Fairstine suggested that he start an electronic project that would combine dance rhythms with New Age ethnic melodies. David has already come up with a name for the project, a mysterious one - Enigma. Cretu took the idea with pleasure, and the very first single, Sadeness, released by Cretu, Fairstine and Peterson, was a huge success. The secret was Cretu's creative approach - a music enthusiast, he set himself the goal of bringing to the masses of listeners music that they most likely had not heard before - for example, Gregorian sacred singing in Latin. Finding such "pearls", Cretu acted simply - mix them with a direct and powerful dance beat, and the hit is ready! The composer worked in a positive and warm atmosphere in his own studio in Ibiza, the cradle of electronic pop music.
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