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[Magellan 3-Star site] Welcome to this WWW page for Enigma, and for the man behind it - Michael Cretu. Here you'll find a wealth of information on Enigma and Cretu. Sandra, the female voice of Enigma and a recording artist in her own right, has her own web page: Into A Secret Land - The Sandra Homepage.

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This web page is maintained by Joar Grimstvedt. Do let me hear any comments you might have.


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Michael Cretu's other project: Trance Atlantic Air Waves.

Latest news

[The Complete Studio Album Collection album set] July 23, 2021: The Complete Studio Album Collection is released - containing all of Enigma's eight studio albums put together in a limited edition box. Each album has different cover art compared to the original releases, with the cover art being the same as the ones for the May 2018 vinyl releases, only this time with monochromatic colours and with black vinyl. The list of albums are as follows:

  1. MCMXC a.D. (1990)
  2. The CROSS Of Changes (1993)
  3. Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! (1996)
  4. The Screen Behind The Mirror (2000)
  5. Voyageur (2003)
  6. A Posteriori (2006)
  7. Seven Lives Many Faces (2008)
  8. The Fall Of A Rebel Angel (2016)

The eight albums are also released individually, along with a ninth album which is the 2001 compilation album Love Sensuality Devotion - The Greatest Hits.


[Sadeness (Part I) - Anniversary Edition - 30 Years EP] June 18, 2021: The EP Sadeness (Part I) - Anniversary Edition - 30 Years is released, to mark the original release of Enigma's first single. It is a 10" purple coloured vinyl, limited to 1,500 copies, with four tracks containing three songs from Enigma's first album as well as the lead single from the second album:

  1. Sadeness (Part I) (4:17)
  2. Principles Of Lust (3:23)
  3. Return To Innocence (4:03)
  4. Mea Culpa (Part II) (4:01)

The EP was originally planned for release on October 9, 2020, which would be close to the 30 year anniversary of the original Sadeness (Part I) single release date of October 1, 1990, but the release was subsequently postponed.


[Fantasy: Wild Boys single cover] May 14, 2021: German schlager duo Fantasy release the single Wild Boys (digital only). The song's lyrics are about the music of the 1980s, and includes a verse mentioning Michael Cretu: Ich kenn' all die Hits von Bad Boys Blue / Von C.C.Catch und von Cretu / Und ich weiß, die kennst auch du. This translates into English as: I know all the hits from Bad Boys Blue / From C.C.Catch and from Cretu / And I know you do so too. The song originally appears on the album 10.000 bunte Luftballons, released on July 24, 2020.

Fantasy perform the song as contestants of the Free European Song Contest 2021, representing Poland. The contest is held on May 15, 2021, and results in place 13 out of 16.


[Midnight Man - Tribute To Songs And Sounds Of Michael Cretu] April 24, 2020: pbhmedia is releasing Midnight Man - Tribute To Songs And Sounds Of Michael Cretu, where Swedish artists cover songs by Michael Cretu or by artists produced by him, mostly from the 1980s. The track listing is as follows:

  1. Paul Rein: Angel 07 (4:15). Originally by Hubert Kah, 1985
  2. Octolab: Samurai (Did You Ever Dream) (4:14). Originally by Michael Cretu, 1985
  3. RetroTeque & MJ feat. Louise Marchione: The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime) (4:24). Originally by Peter Schilling, 1988
  4. Eurotix: Midnight Man (3:22). Originally by Sandra, 1986
  5. Stormby: Don't Be So Shy (3:28). Originally by Moti Special, 1985
  6. Francesca e Luigi: (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena (4:20). Originally by Sandra, 1985
  7. Cliff Wedge feat. James Knights: Cold Days, Hot Nights (3:47). Originally by Moti Special, 1984
  8. Vogon Poetry: Secret Land (4:31). Originally by Sandra, 1988
  9. ECC feat. Mia Moilanen: In The Heat Of The Night (5:10). Originally by Sandra, 1985
  10. Uncreated: So Many People (3:53). Originally by Hubert Kah, 1989
  11. Stormby feat. Peter Wilson & Yuhniversia: Hi! Hi! Hi! (3:34). Originally by Sandra, 1986
  12. Leaderboard: The Picture (4:07). Originally by Hubert Kah, 1985
  13. Humanoid Invasion: Missing Words (4:03). Originally by Cretu & Thiers, 1987
  14. [ich]: Silent Warrior (6:03). Originally by Enigma, 1993
  15. Various Artists: Stormby Megamix (13:38) (only on digital release)

The album is released digitally on April 24, with a release on CD on May 8.

[Midnight Man - Tribute To Songs And Sounds Of Michael Cretu] On March 20, the single Angel 07 by Paul Rein was released, as lead single from the album:

  1. Angel 07 (Radio Edit) (4:15)
  2. Angel 07 (Extended) (6:05)


August 29, 2019: The Enigma website is 25 years! On August 29, 1994 this website was announced to the Enigma mailing list, with work having been started in May that year. It was the first Enigma site on the web - the next one would appear one year later. It's also the longest-running Enigma website, with a news archive going back to 1994, covering the releases from Enigma's second album. The site has basically the same appearance today as it had when it started. The web site originally had the address http://www.hsr.no/~joarg/Enigma.html, then http://www.stud.his.no/~joarg/Enigma.html from November 1995 and finally the current http://www.five.no/enigma/ from February 1998.

The latest Enigma album to date is The Fall Of A Rebel Angel, released in November 2016. In May 2018, all of Enigma's eight studio albums as well as a compilation album were released on vinyl, with new cover designs, as "The Colours of Enigma - The Vinyl Series".


See the news archive for more information.

Illustrated discographies


Lyrics


Articles, interviews and reviews

Other things

Text discography
Discography for Enigma, in plain ASCII. Maintained by Gavin Stok. Also get the ASCII version of the discography for Michael Cretu.
Music samples
Samples of some of the Enigma songs.
Enigma-like music
Reviews of music by Dao Dezi, Delerium, Enchanted, Mike Oldfield and Sacred Spirit, as well as links to relevant web pages.
Picture gallery
A collection of pictures of Michael Cretu and related artists.
Mailing list
Information on the Enigma mailing list, including option for searching the archives of the list.

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Updated December 27, 2022 by Joar Grimstvedt