Michael Cretu

Who is Michael Cretu?

Michael Cretu is a Romanian-German musician. He is also known as Curly, MC or Curly M.C. because of his fair curled hair. His peak musical activity was with the Enigma project, which was mainly based in Germany.

He has collaborated with many musicians along his career, including his ex-wife Sandra Lauer, musician Peter Cornelius, guitarists Manfred Thiers and Jens Gad, Frank Peterson, David Fairstein, D.J. André Tanneberger, Peter Ries, Bernt Moehrle, singer Ruth-Ann Boyle, and Andru Donalds, who produced the single Mishale in 1995.

In 2002, Crocodile-Music, Cretu's management company, stated that 100 million Cretu-produced records had been sold worldwide. By the year 2008, Michael Cretu's Enigma project had sold over 50 million studio albums according to his official site.

He owns A.R.T. Studios, a recording studio facility located near the resort on the Balearic Islands, where he lived with his wife and their two teenagers, Nikita and Sebastian. He and Sandra divorced in 2007. Cretu has been reported as living in Germany since that time.