Where is Michael Creagh Chu from?

MichaelCretu, 1957 was born in Bucharest, Romania in May. He is a Romanian/German musician, singer, composer and founder of the music brand Ingmar, and is known as "TheManBehindEnigma".

From 65438 to 0965, Cretu entered a local music school, LYZEUMNo.2, specializing in piano. 1968, studied piano in Paris for five months. 1975, Cretu and his family immigrated to Hamburg, the former West Germany, and were admitted to Frankfurt Conservatory of Music. 1978 After graduation, I started working in a music studio. 1979, he released his first album "Moon, Light and Flowers" under Polygram. Cretu's work helped him win the first prize of 1980, which was a good achievement in his producer career.

Chinese name: Michael Cretu.

Michael Creagh Chu

Alias: TheManBehindEnigma (the man behind Ingmar)

Nationality: Romania/Germany

Place of birth: Bucharest, Romania

Date of birth: 1957 May 18.

Occupation: singer, composer

Masterpiece: the intersection of transformation and causality.

personal record

MichaelCretu is called "the man behind Ingmar".

1May 1957 18 was born in Bucharest, Romania.

From 65438 to 0965, Cretu entered a local music school, LYZEUMNo.2, specializing in piano.

1968, studied piano in Paris for five months.

1975, Cretu and his family immigrated to Hamburg, the former West Germany, and were admitted to Frankfurt Conservatory of Music.

1978 After graduation, I started working in a music studio.

work experience

Special album

/kloc-released the first album "Moon, Light and Flowers under Polaroid" in 0/979. Cretu's work helped him win the first prize of 1980, which is a good result of his producer career.

1983, Cretu released the album Legion under Virgin, pushing him to the position of creator and producer. He is responsible for producing Sandra(Cretu's wife)' s first international single MariaMagdalena and another solo album Diechinesischemauer (Chinese Wall). Later, some albums were released, TheInvisibleMan and DiechinesisMauer (The Chinese Wall), but they were all in English.

As a producer from 65438 to 0985, he cooperated with MotiSpecial and TissyTheirs.

1987 met MikeOldfield through SylvieVatan and helped MikeOldfield make the album Islands. Encouraged by MikeOldfield, Cretu was persuaded to stay away from producers and engage in music creation.

marry

1On February 7th, 988, MichaelCretu married SandraLauer and soon lived in Ibiza (an island in the Mediterranean), where they had an old farm and a recording studio. Cretu opened a hotel in the basement of his old house and often invited friends to visit him. He lived happily there.

From 65438 to 0989, he began to be imprisoned in the recording studio at home. He said: "After the success of Sandra's album, I had time to make my own music for the first time."

partner

Another protagonist of Ingmar, Klitu's wife Sandro Raul, performed a female voice singing on all the Ingmar records she recorded. This couple is a model of pop music.

Sandra's full name is Sandra Raul and she was born in May 1962.

12 years old, released a solo single "Andy, my friend".

/kloc-When she was 0/6 years old, she and two girls formed an Arabic singing group that was very popular in Japan at that time.

From 65438 to 0985, Sandra began her solo career and released the album TheLongPlay under Virgin.

1987 released her first edited album "Scorpio" and began to cooperate with Cretu. The album "Eternal Love" was released in America and Canada.

1988, she released her next studio album, Entering a Secret Country.

Before 1990 released its first album, Enigma also released the hit album PaintingsinYellow. At that time, the company was making "2000 BC" and needed a female voice to sing French. RichardBranson, the boss of Virgin Company, decided that Sandra should play the role, and The Mystery was born.

After that, Sandra released three albums with the help of her husband, but the influence was obviously not as good as Enigma.

After the success of Enigma, she published ClosetoSeven in 1992, and Cretu finished the production and writing. Later, on the basis of this album, an edited version of the 18 exam was released.

Achievements and honors

originate

After being liberated from European pop music, Cretu began to engage in her favorite music: conceptual music, such as PinkFloryd or YES band. He said: "I have always liked this kind of music, but I don't buy their records anymore because I have to make my own records."

Cretu used two totally different and unfashionable sampling sounds in his music-the Peruvian style flute and the Gregorian hymn melody sung by monks, and the free and easy disco beat was his original creation. This is also the most attractive place for the out-and-out originality of Enigma.

reform

1990 10, Enigma's first single SadenessPartI was released for the first time and became their most famous hit single. The solo album MCMXC.a.D (2000 BC) released immediately afterwards became the best-selling album in German history. An album sold120,000 copies, topped the album charts in 465.438+0 countries, and stayed in the US 200 charts for five years.

When pop music made steady progress in the 1990s, no one expected that Enigma did not follow the standard and successful pop rules, but used flute, medieval hymns, electric guitars, brass pipes and other modern instruments to convey the breath, emotion and energy of modern people.

The classic songs in this album are MeaCulpa (my fault), PrinciplesOfLust (the principle of desire) and A River with Faith. It is also very commendable that MCMXC.a.D adopts superb recording and mixing technology. All tracks naturally flow into each other, and the application of stereo and bass is perfect. MCMXC.a.D put it into a fever sound system, releasing a lot of bass, which is amazing and fascinating.

new thought

In 199 1, McMxC. A.D. released a limited edition and added four tracks, but all of them were remixed and extended on the basis of the original album songs, so this record has a sense of unity from beginning to end. The cover design of the limited edition record is almost the same as the original, except that the black of the original is changed to a dark green background.

Generally speaking, MCMXC.a.D (2000 BC) is Jason's work in the history of pop music in the 1990s. Its music is very original, creating a unique atmosphere again and again. So far, this kind of sound and atmosphere has only been successfully imitated and improved by another artist, that is, Delerium and their album SemanticSpeaces, and most people have failed to try this kind of music. Two years later, he began to produce the soundtrack for the movie Silver Bar.

1993, TheCrossofChanges, the second album of Enigma, was released. Due to the success of the first album. The second album has received orders for 6.5438+0.4 million CDs before its official release. This album not only has the temperament of the last album, but also is an evolution. Its cover design is very tasteful: there is a black circle and a robot with human characteristics in front, and the line drawing looks blurred.

The Hit List

Crossovers * * * has nine songs, and the beginning of each song is similar to the last album, except that there are obviously different male voices in various backgrounds. Although this album did not surpass the first album in sales, it still achieved 24 gold records, and won the first place in the British charts and the second place in Oceania and Europe.

Two popular songs were born at the crossroads: the eye of truth and the return to ignorance. In particular, ReturntoInnocence involves more symphonic elements, which obviously tends to the song structure of Lapp hymns with modern rhythm. As a chorus, this song makes people feel happy and happy. One of the reasons is that Enigma extended its interest to the ancient Nordic music culture. Lapps live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and northern Russia. The success of this music tape has made it a popular single all over the world.

1994, TheCrossofChanges produced a "special edition", which was similar to the previous "limited edition". Three songs were added to the "Special Edition", and each song was remixed, but unlike the "Limited Edition", it was not remixed with each other. Moreover, in contrast, "special edition" is even rarer than "limited edition". Because it is not released in the United States, it is difficult to find "special edition" records in some record stores around the world.

1996165438+1October 25th, Virgin Records released Leroy Estmort, Vive Leroy, the latest album of Enigma for the first time in the world! (This is German, and the Chinese translation means kingsdead, LongLivetheKing, and the translation of Taiwan Province Province changed the dynasty. The English translation is kingsdead, long live the king! . )。 The first single is BeyoundtheInvisible. Compared with the previous album, the new album not only has a different atmosphere, but also has a more peaceful drum tone, and there are new minority voices-from Zulu to Latvian, which has been praised by critics as the most unified and mysterious album so far.

This new album conveys many natural and philosophical concepts, and the theme of this concept is "Why". BeyoundtheInvisible is a classic single of Enigma. Through Cretu's voice, there is an irresistible chorus and melody in it.

In 2000, Enigma introduced the screen behind the mirror again.

Major album works

(year)

MCMXCa。 D( 1990)

Exchange (1993)

Long live LeRoiestMort! ( 1996)

The creembehindthemirror(2000)

Voyager (2003)

Abo Sterio (2006)

Seven Faces of Life (2008)