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Raden Haji Oma Irama, better known as Rhoma Irama (born 11 December 1946), is an Indonesian dangdut singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sundanese descent.. Starting in the late 1960s, he began his musical career as Rhoma Irama as a part of the pop band Orkes Melayu Purnama, pioneering several dangdut music elements.
A. Rafiq (5 March 1946 – 19 January 2013) was a prominent Jakarta-based dangdut artist. He was active in the Indonesian music industry from the 1970s onwards. He launched his first single, "Pandangan Pertama" ("First Sight") in 1978. The single was a huge hit and propelled his career in the Indonesian '70s dangdut scene.
As scholars note, dangdut is the most controversial genre regarding its relation to Indonesian Islamic morality, [13] and few popular music genres around the world are more focused on women's bodies than dangdut, [14] whose lyrics often portray women as sexual objects. [15] On the one side, within dangdut, a religious current (spiritual dangdut ...
In the 80's, Indonesian media widely coined the term Pop kreatif. [6] Journalists Seno M. Hardjo and Bens Leo is cited to have popularized this term to differentiate the music presented by musicians with the likes of Guruh Soekarnoputra, Eros Djarot, Chrisye, Fariz RM, and Dian Pramana Poetra from the Melancholic pop music artists and genre. [3]
Ida Laila — Female dangdut singer; Iis Dahlia — Female dangdut singer; Ikke Nurjanah — Female dangdut singer; Iksan Skuter — Indie folk/country singer; Indahkus — Indo pop/C-Pop/K-Pop/J-Pop female musician, singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, host, and doctor; Indra Lesmana — Jazz musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
Dangdut performance. Dangdut is a popular semitraditional music genre of Indonesia which is partly derived of Indian, Arabic, and Malay music in the late 1960s in Jakarta city. It consists of melodious and harmonical music with the main tabla as the percussion beat especially in the classical dangdut versions. It was originally an Indonesian ...
Eddy Silitonga (January 17, 1949 – August 25, 2016) was an Indonesian singer. He was known for his high-pitched voice. He won several song contests, including Champion Pop Singer in Medan and the Popular Song Festival held at Taman Ismail Marzuki in Jakarta.