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

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 ex-wife 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 Ruth-Ann Boyle, and Andru Donalds, who produced the single Mishale in 1995.

In 2002, Crocodile-Music, Cretus management company, stated that 100 million Cretu-produced reIn 2002, Crocodile-Music, Cretus management company, stated that 100 million Cretu-produced records had been sold worldwide. By the year 2008, Michael Cretus 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.