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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.
Ida Laila (November 27, 1943 – September 12, 2019) was an Indonesian singer. Laila was known for her dangdut and Malay music. [1] She was a popular singer in the 1960s and the 1970s, and was best known for her song "Keagungan Tuhan" ("God's Majesty") which was written by Abdul Malik Buzaid.
Orkes Melayu singer Ellya Khadam switched to dangdut in the 1970s, and by 1972, she was the number-one artist in Indonesia. Her success, along with that of Rhoma Irama, meant that by 1975, 75 per cent of all recorded music in Indonesia was of the dangdut genre, with pop bands such as Koes Plus adopting the style. [citation needed]
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.
Indonesia in the 1970s saw the peak of Indian- and Arab-influenced dangdut, which emerged in the 1960s, and the development of Western-influenced Indo pop. The Philippines in the early 1970s saw the emergence of Manila sound. Originally influenced by rock and roll and bubblegum pop, it became more influenced by disco and funk by the second half ...
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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]
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.