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Enigma is an electronic musical project founded by Michael Cretu (Romanian musician), David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. Cretu, who based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain in the early 1990s is both the composer and the producer of the project. His former wife Sandra often provided vocals on Enigma tracks. Jens Gad co-produced and played guitar on three of the Enigma albums.

After some solo projects, Cretu started to produce the first Enigma record “MCMXC a.D.” in 1990 using the nickname “Curly MC”. Until today, with seven albums out, “Seven Lives, Many Faces” being the latest one (released on September 19, 2008), 35 million CDs sold worldwide, 50 number one hits, 90 platinum discs, and songs appearing on more than 1,000 compilation albums.

With the 1990 hit “Sadness Part I,” Enigma brought the new age fascination with Gregorian chants and old-world culture to the world and clubs; the resulting single was both unique and irresistible.

On his second album, 1993’s “Cross of Changes”, some of the old-world elements remained, but the new age angle came to the forefront in a set of slick, radio-friendly pop. The well-known “Return to Innocence” was born.

Enigma 3: “Le Roi Est Mort, Vive le Roi” followed in 1996 - a musical summary of the previous concepts.

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1	Return To Innocence full track	2,902
2	Gravity Of Love	1,719
3	Mea Culpa full track	1,542
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5	Shadows in Silence full track	935
6	Push The Limits full track	901
7	Smell Of Desire full track	899
8	Silence Must Be Heard full track	891
9	Principles Of Lust full track	826
10	The Eyes Of Truth full track	811
11	Morphing Thru Time full track	776
12	T.N.T. for the Brain full track	768
13	Knocking On Forbidden Doors full track	750
14	Callas Went Away full track	724
15	The Voice Of Enigma full track	711

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Laro20 wrote:
8 minutes ago

Genius.

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CassiopeiaA wrote:
7 hours ago

Totally agree with you, maguffy. My regards!

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jollylauren wrote:
yesterday morning

youre a bit strange maguffy...

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jollylauren wrote:
yesterday morning

the most beautiful music ive ever heard in my entire life

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maguffy wrote:
yesterday morning

Hey guys whtsup ! You can call me as a die hard fan of THE PHENOMENON CALLED AS ENIGMA . Guys , ENIGMA is highly highly and severely UNDERRATED to begin with. I dont knw why we have music awards like grammy awards and others ,they have become so commercial that they lost their souls. Music by Enigma is the kind of music I would prefer to call it as the MOST PURE MUSIC outhere. I mean ,there is no match to this kind of music anywhere. And I'm not just saying this. I was a teenager when started listening to Enigma ,now i'm in my late twenties , I still listen to the CROSS OF CHANGES , i think tells what

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maguffy wrote:
yesterday morning

think it tells what I think about ENIGMA. I would call ENIGMA as an UNDYING MUSIC PHENOMENON . I mean if you guys have heard the tracks like { GOODBYE MILKYWAY , ALL THE TRACKS IN THE 3rd Album , loneliness , gravity of love , Erotic dreams album , and the 1st track in the Posteriori , Northern Light , Twenty thousand leagues , oh man the list goes on and on ......} Guys u have no idea what Enigma is..... I could describe it this way , If at all Enigma had a star like Micheal Jackson in them , Enigma would 've levelled the fame of the KING OF POP in there own genre . MICHAEL CRETU = MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL CRETU you are an undisputed king of MUSIC AND U HAVE PROVED JUST THAT IN YOUR FIRST ALBUM man! and as for the latest album SLMF ........... {SPLENDID} i dint even start yet...

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maguffy wrote:
yesterday morning

SEVEN LIVES AND MANY FACES In this album , Enigma has mastered how to mix rythym, melody and modern sounds in Tandem to generate the feel of an out of this world experience . Guys if you dont know wht i'm talking about , just listen to this album in room with an advanced music system with all the lights switched off and when you finished listening to this album in the same room you'd regret that the music has finally stopped and again down to earth! . JeTaime till I die , is my most favorite track in the latest album , the singer cretu , has poured his heart and soul into it . I wished they had actually created a music video for such a song. HAIL ENIGMA !

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Tylky wrote:
Monday evening

Return To Innocence <3

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unexisten wrote:
Monday evening

-)

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tick15 wrote:
Monday morning

Gravity Of Love ♥

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baizen wrote:
last week

IIIIIIIIIt's the E. NIGMA SHOOWWW!!!!!

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forfi wrote:
last week

всегда лучшая...

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buzzmusic wrote:
last week

http://www.lastfm.fr/group/French+Enigma

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SymphonyOfLove wrote:
last week

Cretu always the best..

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Dominator_Oz wrote:
last week

расслабончик))

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Heidality wrote:
last week

я собираю на сайт команду прошу обратитьса ко мне или написать в рупор..сайт о рок музыке

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SERERERER wrote:
last week

http://www.lastfm.com.tr/music/MSH/Dreams+of+ERIA/Tears+of+MARIA

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Laro20 wrote:
14 days ago

It's as if these melodies are from another world.

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Gochir wrote:
16 days ago

El Grupo chicano como que ni al caso, ni si quiera aparecen sus canciones.. acaso solo el que escribio el wiki los conoce?

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apollinaris wrote:
16 days ago

New official compilation of best Enigma tracks + previously unreleased material! Check it out: http://www.lastfm.ru/group/%C3%A6nigma

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