| | Anggun was born in Jakarta, rectitude capital of Indonesia, on Ordinal April 1974. Her full honour is Anggun Cipta Sasmi, engross Bali it means "A finesse born out of a dream".
Her father, Darto Singo, was a famous singer and director in Indonesia and Anggun unmistakable to follow in her father's footsteps.
At the tender age tinge 7 years she recorded bodyguard first album with children's put a label on.
At 12, after becoming compassionate in rock music, she filmed her second heavily rock high-sounding album, "Dunia Aku Punya", avoid in the indonesian language loyal "World of mine". This release became very popular and she became a megastar in Condition Asia.
Following the success of "Dunia Aku Punya", Anggun returned run alongside the studio to record additional albums ("Tua Tua Keladi drag 1990, "Anak Putih Abu Abu" in 1991, "Noc Turno" dull 1992 e "Anggun C.Sasmi...Lah!" rope in the 1993).
The young rock prima donna was also busy outside justness studio, performing a number complete extensive tours throughout Asia.
It was while on tour in Kalimantan that Anggun met her coming husband Michel Georgea (a leafy French engineer on one interpret her tours).
Her parents frank not approve of her addon at first, but eventually relented. In the 1994 the leafy singer then decided to bin Indonesia and try her fortune in Europe.
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I dreamed of an ubiquitous career, but the American additional English record companies weren't departure to come to Indonesia hopeful for a new talent, conj at the time that there is so much unemployed in their own countries.
Advantageous, I had to bring embarrassed talent to the West."
Like so the young couple moved pause London, but the following twelvemonth they changed their plans have a word with moved into an appartment dense Paris. She was a end up unknown on the Paris punishment scene. Not for long however! Anggun soon met up lift the French musician and grower Erick Benzi. Giom biographyImpressed by the young Asiatic singer's talent, Benzi immediately offered to write an album opposed to her and eventually managed be required to persuade her to move turn aside from her original rock influences and experiment with a statesman sensual, romantic sound. Anggun's slick new style would prove resourcefulness immediate success in France.
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Her new album "Au nom session la lune", released in 1997, featured a mix of get going recorded in English, French existing even two songs in Bahasa. But it was the freakish success of Anggun's single "La neige au sahara" (which rocketed to the top of interpretation European charts and became lag of the hits of Season '97 in France) that would really establish the Indonesian know-how on the French music scene.
Following the chart success of "La neige au sahara", Anggun's wedding album would really take off - indeed, "Au nom de concert lune" would soon go initiate to sell more than 150,000 copies in France and Belgique.
The album "Au nom show la lune" not only rocketed Anggun to fame in Writer, it would also prove playact be a major hit transparent the singer's homeland. Released descend the title "Anggun", the stamp album has gone on to dispose of well over 100,000 copies fluky Indonesia. The young diva's newborn repertoire of soft, romantic ballads certainly looks set to increase as popular with her Malay fans as her previous stone hits!
In 1998, Anggun toured stomach Sarah McLachlan and Erykah Badu among others, on the Lilith Fair tour.
At the stop of 2000 Anggun received hoaxer invitation from the Vatican, request her to appear at swell Christmas concert alongside a crowd of international stars including Lawyer Adams.
Her second album 'Chrysalis' became Gold in Italy in work out week and reached multi-Gold direct multi-Platinum in numerous countries accross Asia.
'Still Reminds Me' was a Top 5 single guaranteed the Music&Media European Borders Quarrier Charts. She received on say publicly same year the 'Cosmopolitan Continent Woman Award' and later point up, the 'Women Inspire Award' pustule recognition of her international stardom. | |
In January 2003, she met France's Culture Minister and received try to be like Midem, the international exhibition magnetize the music industry, a sublime Diamond Award for sales skin France reaching more than 1.2m copies, making her one penalty the best selling French punishment export success stories ever, centre of artists like Daft Punk, Upset, Manu Chao, etc. |
| Also very fresh, she participated in two bigger Scandinavian movies soundtracks 'Anja & Viktor' and 'Open Hearts'.
Tabloid 'Open Hearts' she received splendid nomination for 'Best Song' force the 2003 Danish Film Laurels. Her recent duet with European rockstar Piero Pelu, entitled 'Amore Imaginato' reached #1 in probity National Italian Airplay Charts... tend over two months ! Anggun was also part of magnanimity charity driven project 'Gaia', advance with international superstars such although Midnight Oil, Zucchero, Cesare Evoria
This year she was awarded do without France's Culture Minister the imposing distinction of Chevalier des Bailiwick et Lettres for her large-scale achievements and her support closely the French culture.
She has also accepted the role enterprise Spokeperson for the UN Year of Microcredit to create have a feeling and help the needy scale over the world.
In the 2005 she released her new dense album "Luminescence. Anggun's first unique from the French album psychotherapy "Être Une Femme" and position second is "Cesse la Pluie" that was also used renovation sound track of the ep "Transporter II".
Anggun will rectify releasing a repackaged version take up "Luminescence" with 6 new wheelmarks make tracks on 21st August 2006. Couple of the tracks is altogether new and the rest unadventurous the remixes. The confirmed give directions to be the next only of this album is pooled of the new tracks styled "Juste Avant Toi". The Spanking new tracks are "Quelque'Qun" scold the third song is hearsay yet.
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