Michael Cretu was born on May 18, 1957 in Bucharest, Romania. In the Seventies he started his music career playing keyboards and producing for German producer Frank Farian. In the Eighties, he played keyboards during Arabesque's live shows. This is how he met Sandra, whose albums he started to produce once she went solo in 1985. The couple got married in 1988.A year before that, he teamed up with producer Manfred Thiers to form 'Cretu & Thiers'. Their debut single was a poppy cover of Alice Cooper's 'School's out'. Although this single didn't become a hit, the B-side 'Collage' was a first peek at what was to come: in 1990 Cretu started his Enigma project, which sounds a lot like this track.
My collection: 7" single no. 2803
Found: Record fair, Amsterdam, January 4, 1997
Cost: 3 guilders
Tracks: 'School's out' / 'Collage'
