Enigma Group Biography

The articles of the mysterious and unique "Enigma" names of the project musicians managed to find out the initially the Enigma group, the Enigma group was created as a classified project. Information hunger gave rise to an incredible number of rumors. And the most incredible assumption said that "Enigma" is a bunch of sectarians who arrange sexy orgies to their music.

The word "enigma" is borrowed from the Greek language, and it means "a riddle". Initially, the participants were quite able to correspond to their name. The musicians wanted people to react not to their names, but directly to the compositions themselves. The single "Sadenses Part 1", which preached the release of the debut album, came out without much hype, and any advertisement in the press.

Its name is built on the game of words. Firstly, this curtsy towards the Marquis de Sad-the discoverer and propagandist of sadism. Secondly, the English word "sadness" "sadness". The lyrics of the song had a clear erotic hue, and the melody bribed a strange, as if in a looped structure. The single was at the tops of the charts in 18 countries, among which there were even distant Korea and Brazil, and spread around the world in the amount of 12 million copies.

But an impressive portion of tar was added to the barrel of honey. The fact is that in their melodies the background of "Enigma" included the liturgy of the monastic choir.

First, the Catholic Church took up the group, which was outraged by the unprecedented combination of Gregorian chants and shocking texts. Then in August, the Kapelle Antique Munich choir filed a court at Enigma, accusing the musicians of using their work without asking for permission. The choir asked to name all the participants in the project, and also demanded a written apology and financial compensation from them.

The musicians paid the required amount, and everyone found out that behind the name "Enigma" are not at all malicious sectarians. One of his wards was Sandra Loer, a participant in the years of Arabesque, famous in the years of the pop-antensemble. Soon, the creative union grew into a love relationship - in the year they got married. Michelle became an ideologist and author of Enigma, and Sandra with her voice.

The Kreto family settled on the famous Spanish Island of Ibiza, where hundreds of people flock every year to relax and hang out. But Michelle and Sandra do not pay attention to the influx of tourists. They spend most of the time in their country house, which is simultaneously the studio studio "A. also in the city of Town, they have a restored house, which is a historical monument of the 18th century.

In the basement of this house Kret, it opened a restaurant where he often invites Mizhty friends. The wife of Michelle Kretu, in addition to raising two children, recorded her solo album" Wheel of Time ", which came out last year. Musical magazines chose to dismiss:" All the same bagpipe! And the group fans with pleasure bought a disk to immerse themselves in a magical, enchanting world.

Michelle Kretu did not move away from his constant rules: the music is still filled with a fair amount of mysticism, and the disk should be considered one unified work consisting of several parts of Pesen. The main theme of the album was this time the cantata of the German composer Karl Orf. In the year, Michelle Kretu turned the usual ideas that there was music. But since then, the group had many followers-two “Era”, “Gregorian”, “Deep Forest”, etc..

Once Crete broke the rules and musical stamps, now he himself did not notice how his brainchild “Enigma” has turned into cliches.