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Anggun C. Sasmi
I. Biography
Anggun Cipta Sasmi is an Indonesian and French-naturalized singer-
songwriter. She was born in Jakarta, April 29 th 1974. She started her career
album, Dunia Aku Punya (Ive Got the World). She became further well
known with the single Mimpi (Dream, 1989), which was listed as one of
the 150 Greatest Indonesian Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone. She
followed it with a series of singles and three more studio albums, which
established her as one of the most notable Indonesian rock stars of the
early 1990s. At her young age Anggun has reached the peak of her
singing from her father, Darto Singo, who was a Javanese writer. She
was trained every day, learning various vocal techniques. At the age of
nine, Anggun began to write her own songs and recorded her first
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childrens album. At the age of twelve, she was released her first
official studio album, Dunia aku Punya (Ive Got the World (1986).
writing songs and recording demos, but after a few months, all the
demos she had sent to record companies around the United Kingdom
was return with negative replies. She was struggling and thinking to
and Sony Music Entertainment. Her first album was Snow on the
in Italy, Spain, and several coutries in Asia. It was sold over 1.5 million
Epic Records. Anggun went on an extensive tour for nine months in the
singer, she changed her style became more feminine and sexy with the
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brown skin.
Anggun has been successful as a singer, but she never expanded her
career into other areas outside of music. When promoting her first
international album in the United States, she was offered a role to play
in the movie James Bond: The World Is Not Enough and High Fidelity.
because I think there are still many people out there who were born to
American record chart. She has received a number of honors for her
government of France and the World Music Award for Worlds Best-
Most Popular Artist of the Year (1991), Best Music Video and Favorite
(2006), Great Heart of the Year (2007), Worlds Best Selling Indonesian
the United Nation twice, first for the International Year of Microcredit in
2005 and then for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2009.