http://www.bandonthe.net/blog/category/artists/ Blog categories... http://www.bandonthe.net/zephyr/blog/michael-cretu/ HereGs an artist that I genuinely respect and love to listen to. Michael Cretu is a Romanian musician, also known as Curly, MC or Curly M.C because of... Cretu was born on 18 May 1957 in Bucharest, Romanian People's Republic to a Romanian father and Austrian mother. He studied classical music at Liceul Nr. 2 in Bucharest in the year 1965 and later in Paris, France in 1968. He then attained a degree in music from the Academy of Music in Frankfurt, Germany where he studied from 1975 to 1978.
He married Sandra Lauer on 7 January 1988 who herself is a well established singer and writer. They have twins named Nikita and Sebastian who were born in July 1995.
The Enigma Project:
Cretu had an idea for a new-age, electronic, trance project and named it as Enigma. He worked with Frank Peterson and David Fairstein and together they created a single HSadeness (Part I)I which became a huge hit. The first album under the Enigma project, titled MCMXC a.D., was released in the year 1990 and which with its Gregorian chants was hugely successful. It stayed on the European charts for 282 weeks.
The Cross of Changes, the second album under the same project, was released in 1993. With this album Cretu changed EnigmaGs direction from Gregorian to Tribal chants. This albumGs single "Return to Innocence" was a smashing hit worldwide.
EnigmaGs third album Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! was released in the year 1996 and has some really great songs that I love to listen to on and on. The songs really have depth to them.
With the fourth album The Screen Behind the Mirror which was released in the year 2000, Cretu steered the Engima project in a different direction altogether by using the samples of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and by working with artists like Ruth-Ann Boyle and Andru Donalds.
Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits and Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection which were compilations of the songs of the albums released earlier.
In 2003, Cretu released fifth album, Voyageur, under the Enigma project. The Gregorian chants were replaced by more commercial sounds and tunes. A posterior, the sixth Enigma Studio Album was released in September 2006. Seven Lives Many Faces was the seventh album under Enigma and was released on 19 September 2008.
Michael Cretu as a solo artist:
His first solo release was Wild River which was a single released in the year 1978. He released his first solo album in 1979 which was a doubled titled album- Ausgewϫhlte GoldstÏˤcke as German-language release, and Moon, Light & Flowers as English-language release.
Cretu released his second solo album in the year 1983, titled Legionaire. This album too had English and German versions with German-language lyrics and was sung by Michael.
MichaelGs third solo album, titled Die Chinesische Mauer, was released in 1985 and translates to The Chinese Wall in English. This album too had German-Language lyrics which were sung by Michael Cretu and this album was released as a separate album with English-Language lyrics.]]> http://www.bandonthe.net/zephyr/blog/michael-cretu/ Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:36:48 +0000 Prachi