Artists
Aras Darmawan (Aras) – Music Direction, Composition & Arrangement, Programming, Lyrics, Voice on Hey Hey (Ms. Friendly)
Aras started his music at age 6, where he gets introduced to a Piano as his first instrument. He entered several music schools, focussing on playing various keys instruments in a style of Classical and Pop. In the youthful age, he stepped into Rock/Metal type of music, where he gets so excited to gets his hands dirty on his first Ibanez guitar and never stop playing until the neighbors complain. It was also at the same time when he participated in an university band competition and won a first prize trophy. In 2004, he arrived in The Netherlands to study and pursue B.Art degree. At the time, his musicality started to expand especially when he progressed on his own into Jazz. Since then, he started to play various styles of music as a pianist/keyboardist, performing in various charity and cultural/art events accross Netherlands and Germany. He initiated KOMANDAN (Indonesian Band Competition) in October 2006, for a purpose of gathering Indonesian bands and musicians in the Netherlands. In 2008, he moved to Amsterdam. There he found a joy in writing, experimenting, and composing his own music while at the same time being active playing music with different bands. In 2009, he is finally able to fulfilled a long-term ambition by self-launching his first personal album, Melody Friendly Project (MFP) together with fellow artists/musicians.
Meity Fitriani (Meity) - Voice on Hey Hey (Ms. Friendly)
Meity Fitriani is an autodidact singer who does not have any music education background. She considers music as her passion and interest and cherish her voice as an instrument. She has been involved singing in a choir, vocal groups, duo, big-band and solo. For whatever it is, She doesn’t really care as long as she keeps singing. She started to become more familiar with Jazz since her arrival in the Netherlands, and that is when she met some friends (incl. Aras) to play some music once in a while. Jazz and singing later became her passion turned into one. Her inspiration comes from the quote of Billie Holiday, “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know,”
Andro Buwono (Andro) - Voice on Story of Silence
Andro Buwono began to have interest in music since he was 13. The first instrument he learned was piano as her mom was a pianist and had influenced him to be familiar with music. Gradually, he improved him self to learn other music instruments, initiated with guitar, drum, and end with singing. During his musical experience, he has mostly been into 90’s Brit music scene, the genre that had been booming at his childhood. Additionally, rock and roll was his favorite tune as well. His first performance in the musical scene began in 2003, when he together with his band were invited as an opening act by NOKIA music event in the University of Indonesia. Moreover, he also gained further experience by participating in several musical school events with his band, particularly covering Coldplay. Two years after, He went abroad to continue his study while sharpened his skill as a singer songwriter. Currently, he is focusing on SVEND, a duo musical project, which is based on acoustic or pop genres together with his friend as a singer songwriter. Now, he has been registered as a 4th year bachelor degree student in HOGESCHOOL INHOLLAND, majoring International Business Management studies.
Bernadeta Astari (Deta) - Voice on Mimpi Venezia
Bernadeta Astari, preferably called as Deta, came to Holland in 2006, right after accomplished her high school in Jakarta, Indonesia to pursue her career as a classical singer at Conservatorium van Utrecht, The Netherlands. Commenced her musical training at age 4, when her parents firmly brought her to a music school in order to get in touch with piano, as her first musical instrument as an overall foundation. And then followed by cello and singing lesson as her career pronouncement later on. During her developmental stages in music, she got plenty of chance to perform in many domestic and overseas occasions with Indonesian Children Choir and The Batavia Madrigal Singers (BMS). Shortly after her arrival in The Netherlands, she won the 1st prize of National Final Prinses Christina Concours in The Hague in 2007. This became an important start which brought her at many concerts and events. She had joined the Resident Artist Program under patron of Het Nationale Reisopera and just published her new CD, “Vocal Works of Ananda Sukarlan” with Joseph Kristanto (Indonesian Baritone) and the composer himself as the pianist. Currently, she’s studying in Conservatorium van Utrecht with Henny Diemer, as the 4th year student for Bachelor of Music with full scholarship from Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science.
Carina Mohede (Carina) - Voice on Diversi
Carina Celestina Kimberley Mohede, shortly Carina has been interested in music since as long as she can remember. She was introduced to music by her family when she was also get to play a piano for the first time. Singing, dancing and playing instrument is part of family activities. She attended YPM music school in Indonesia since 5 years old and start learning violin at 14. She was active in schools performance whether it is in choir, band, dance or drama. Music is her energy, passion and a way of expressing herself. When she was 15, She moved to Canada, there she joined a traditional dance group for traditional dances. Other than that sometimes she played piano for the church choir. Later, she moved to the Netherlands, she joined the Enschede Music Club, singing in different Indonesian and international events.
Rinaldo Iqbal Herlino (Aldo) – Voice on Diversi
Rinaldo, commonly known as Aldo, is an Alternative Rock singer. He learned how to sing from his father and try to practice himself from the cover song. In 2003, Aldo started his music career with joining the Evomite band (pop/rock) in the high school Surabaya Indonesia as a bassist player and backing vocal, He learned how to play bass with his close friend in high school. Aldo moved to Netherlands for his study and continued his music career together with Aras in an Indonesian Music Club Enschede as a vocalist (2005). After a few years, Aldo decided to joins rock band Semihigh/Kidney Stones in Enschede Netherlands, performing for several international events/gigs.
Prima Desita (Prima) - Voice on Memento
Prima Desita, Prima, loves to sing and dance. She started to sing when she was 2 years old and never stopped singing since. She never had any formal singing education apart from listening to her mom’s voice singing lullabies every night before she went to sleep. She sings jazz, pop, RnB, traditional Indonesian and any other type of music. This Communication Management bachelor is always busy with bands and singing and dancing performances and has shared music ideas and experience with many talented musicians during her stay in The Netherlands.
Punang Adipradana (Punang) - Voice on Memento
Punang showed his interest in music in an early age. Having travelled all his life, he was exposed to a wide variety of music, from traditional javanese gamelan to latin sounds. The first instrument he ever played was the drums, however he has been focusing on the lyrical aspect of music in the past few years. in the last 10 years, he has been involved with 8 different bands, in 4 different countries, across 3 different continents. furthermore he has also been involved with many Hiphop collaborations in Indonesia, Germany, United States, and The Netherlands.