Enigma is an electronic musical project founded by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived of the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has been based at his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s, where he has recorded all of Enigma's studio releases to date. Cretu is both the composer and the producer of the project. His former wife Sandra often provided vocals on Enigma tracks. Jens Gad co-produced and played guitar on three of the Enigma albums. Seven studio albums have been produced under the name of the project. Their first and most successful album, MCMXC a.D. , sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Enigma was among the first recording groups to use a digital audio workstation as a recording studio and to include non-percussion musical instrument and vocal samples, such as the shakuhachi flute and Gregorian monk chants.
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