Michael Cretu is a Romanian musician

Musician

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. He is known also as Curly, MC or Curly M.C. because of his fair curled hair (creț means "curly" in Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

). His peak musical activity was with the Enigma

Enigma (musical project)

Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

 project, which was mainly based in Germany.

He worked with many musicians along his career. The first one to mention is his future wife Sandra Lauer (Sandra Cretu from marriage in 1988), musician Peter Cornelius

Peter Cornelius (musician)

Peter Cornelius is an Austrian pop-singer, guitarist and a former member of Enigma.- Albums :* 1974 Hampelmann* 1974 Fleckerlteppich* 1976 Eine Rose aus Papier* 1980 Der Kaffee ist fertig...

, guitar player Manfred Thiers and Jens Gad

Jens Gad

Jens Gad is a songwriter, producer and guitarist. He was previously the co-producer for the musical project, Enigma. Currently, he is releasing albums under the name of Jens Gad Presents for his new instrumental work, and also under the name of Achillea, for his new world-influenced music which...

, Frank Peterson

Frank Peterson

Frank Peterson is a German music producer known for his work with Enigma and artists such as Sarah Brightman, Ofra Haza, Gregorian, Princessa and Andrea Bocelli on his first international album Romanza in 1997....

, David Fairstein, D.J André Tanneberger (from the A.T.B. Music Poject

ATB

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), Peter Ries

Peter Ries

Peter Ries is a German record producer, composer, arranger, and remixer. Ries started his career as a singer in 1980 under nickname Gilbert...

, Bernt Moehrle, singer Ruth-Ann Boyle

Ruth-Ann Boyle

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 & Andru Donalds

Andru Donalds

Andru Donalds is a Jamaican musician and vocalist with a previous solo career, who is now working in collaboration with the Enigma project as lead vocalist. Donalds had a hit single in America in 1995 with Mishale, which reached #38 on the Billboard Hot 100.-Biography:Andru Donalds was born in...

, latter one produced the single Mishale in 1995.

In 2002, Crocodile-Music, Cretu's management company stated 100 million Cretu-produced records had been sold worldwide.http://www.crocodile-music.de/enigma/index.php?cat=bio&detail=2 By the year 2008, Michael Cretu's Enigma project had sold over 50 million studio albums according to his official site.

He owns A.R.T. Studios

A.R.T. Studios

A.R.T. Studios was the private music studio of music producer Michael Cretu, located in his mansion in the hills of Ibiza, Spain. In May 2008 the mansion together with the studio were demolished...

, a recording studio

Recording studio

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 facility located near the resort on the Balearic Islands, where he lived with his wife and their two teenagers, Nikita and Sebastian born in 1995.