Album: Enigma MCMXC a.D. (The Limited Edition) (1991)

Principles of Lust

A. Sadeness (Curly M.C./F. Gregorian — Curly M.C./David Fairstein)
B. Find Love (Curly M.C.)
C. Sadeness (reprise) (Curly M.C./F. Gregorian Curly M.C./David Fairstein)

Michael Cretu born 18 May 1957, Bucharest, Romania) 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 is with the Enigma project.

He has collaborated with many musicians along his career, including his exwife Sandra Lauer (Sandra Cretu from marriage in 1988), musician Peter Cornelius, guitarists Manfred Thiers and Jens Gad, Frank Peterson, David Fairstein (Fabrice Guitad), D.J. André Tanneberger (from the A.T.B. Music Project), Peter Ries, Bernt Moehrle, singer RuthAnn Boyle, and Andru Donalds, who produced the single Mishale in 1995.

In 2002, CrocodileMusic, Cretu's management company, stated that 100 million Cretuproduced reIn 2002, CrocodileMusic, Cretu's management company, stated that 100 million Cretuproduced 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 owned A.R.T. Studios, a recording studio facility located at his former home 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.