Anggun

Anggun Cipta Sasmi (born April 29, 1974, in Jakarta, Indonesia) is an Indonesian singer/songwriter with French citizenship. Having already had tremendous success in her homeland Indonesia since she was 12, she decided to pursue an international career and left Indonesia in 1994. After a year in London, she settled in Paris, France and met producer Erick Benzi, who later helped her sign a record deal with Sony Music France and recorded her first French album, Au Nom de la Lune, in 1996. In late 1997, Anggun made history for being the first Asian artist to break into international music scene by releasing her first international album Snow on the Sahara in Europe, Asia, and America. This album produced her biggest hit to date, “Snow on the Sahara”.

Having given up all of her success in Indonesia, Anggun and her husband moved to UK. The couple settled in London for around a year. In a 2006 interview with an Indonesian music magazine, Trax, Anggun admitted to experiencing “culture shock” and having some serious financial problems facing a new life in Europe, saying “I thought the money that I got by selling my record company was enough [to sustain life in UK], but I began to lose my money, little by little. I had to spend so much money on taking cabs and eating! So I ended up taking buses everywhere and going to clubs to introduce myself as a singer”. She also admitted that she had to be a “fake Javanese” that she “had to convert from being this shy, introvert, real Javanese woman to being an unabashed, fearless, ‘fake’ Javanese woman.”

More of her bio see in wikipedia

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