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'I got used to it, and it's for me nothing special. 'There are seven different jobs that I'm doing, but I'm doing it such a long time that I can make a difference between them,' he said. He argued that he would struggle to explain the sound he was looking for to someone else, so it was better to simply do it himself. I'm not thinking in catagories.'Ĭretu said he enjoyed the Enigma project so much because he was in control of so much of it - as composer, arranger, singer, pianist, and sound engineer. 'I'm not seperating as much as people do. 'So it's my understanding of music which is a universal understanding. It's classical music, it's pop music, it's rock, it's everything. 'Enigma is really my true music, what I really want to do,' Cretu said. Since that early 1990s peak, Enigma have become less of a presence in the UK and US charts - but remain massive throughout mainland Europe. Sadeness was in fact mildly controversial on its release in the US, as it linked religious chanting with breathless, sexual sounds. from which Sadeness was taken - went to number one in 24 different countries and stayed on the US billboard charts for 282 weeks.Ĭretu's break into music was producing - and playing keyboards - for Boney M 'But at the end, it's a compliment, because if I didn't invent something nobody will copy it, so it's evidence of what I did, that it was something new.'Īfter the Beatles, Enigma have the biggest-selling back catalogue in the world.

'The next album was with ethnic vocals, everybody had ethnc vocals. 'You see after the first album it was monks - then everybody had monks. 'They steal from everywhere,' Cretu told BBC World Service's The Music Biz programme. This technique was quickly picked up and now often used.

Michael Cretu - the man behind Enigma, one of the biggest-selling acts of all time - has said he is resigned to artists stealing his ideas.Ĭretu, whose latest album with Enigma, Voyager, has just been released, is one of Europe's most successful music producers - he was the man behind Boney M's cover of Brown Girl In The Ring, one of the best-selling records of all time.Īs the inspiration behind Enigma, he was the first person to mix choral singing into a modern pop record - on the 1991 UK number one hit Sadeness.

Brown girl in the ring boney m album cover