Dangdut sounds
Normally I don’t listen to dangdut songs but this singer aroused my interest. I will be watching out for dangdut album in the future to add to my music collection. Videos were shot last night at the Borneo Cultural Festival. I wish I knew her name and could look out for her music.
Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian popular music that is partly derived from Arabic, Indian, and Malay folk music. It developed beginning in the 1970s among working class Muslim youth, but especially since the late 1990s has reached a broader following in Indonesia.
A dangdut band usually consists of a lead singer backed by a band of four to eight musicians. The term has been expanded from the desert-like-style music, to now broadened to embrace other musical styles. Modern dangdut incorporates influences from Latin, house music, hip-hop, R&B, reggae, and even Western classical music.
