Real names were shunned and Cretu credited himself as Curly M.C initially, people were unsure whether it was a band, a person or quite what it was. The riddle of Enigma was fueled by the fact that Cretu was shy in revealing almost any information on the album, it’s said because he was unsure of its potential. According to Cretu, the album was about, “unsolved crimes and philosophical themes such as life after death, hence the name Enigma.” It became Virgin’s most successful worldwide album and its success was helped by the single, ‘Sadeness (Part I),’ which included Gregorian chants and pseudo-sexual sounds all arranged over a dance beat – impossible to pigeonhole, but almost impossible to resist. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, where he both wrote and produced the album. Enigma’s debut went on to top the charts in over 40 countries, went multi-platinum and seemed to spawn an industry of offbeat dance trance, with world music overtones.Ĭretu had spent eight months working on MCMXC a.D. (the roman numeral from 1990), at his studio A.R.T. Yet the man behind Enigma, Romanian-born Michael Cretu, had released a number of albums under his own name, although none had really had any impact.
They seemed to come out of nowhere in December 1990 when their debut album, MCMXC a.D., was released. For many people, Enigma are something of an enigma.
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