Rhoma Irama is an Famous Indonesian
dangdut singer. During the height of his stardom in the 1970s, he became the self-proclaimed
Raja Dangdut (King of
Dangdut) with the group Soneta.
Rhoma Irama was receive the PhD award from the American University of Hawaii in February 2005. He also one of the artists on the only CD containing
dangdut music in the United States, which was released on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of its Indonesian music series.
With this you will hear many famous hits from Rhoma Irama: "
Begadang", "
Judi", "
Piano" and more.
Enjoy the music...Come on, forget the lyrics..Celeberate your New Year's Party with this...And dance!
In the late 1960s a new popular music called
dangdut emerged from the slums and suburbs of Jakarta in Indonesia. The music was performed on an electrified and modernized version of the older acoustic orkes melayu orchestra and combined influences from Indian and Malaysian film music, Islamic popular music and American popular song, primarily rock. The name
dangdut is an onomatopoeic reference to the tabla-like pair of drums used in the ensemble that supply the genre with its defining rhythm: DANG dut, in which a heavy, low-sounding pitch off the beat ("dang") is followed by a light, higher pitch note on the downbeat ("dut"). The form was originally characterized by love duets between young men and women.
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