Sasmi atau Anggun memang tak hentinya mengharumkan dunia musik tanah air di kancah Internasional.

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Lagu tersebut diciptakan dan dipopulerkan oleh Anggun, yang merupakan bagian dari album Internasional Snow on The Sahara.

Tahun lalu, Anggun menerima penghargaan World Music Award di Monako untuk penjualan albumnya yang mengagumkan di seluruh dunia.

She began writing songs and recording demos, but after a few months, all the demos she had sent to record companies around UK came with negative replies.

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.

In 1997, Anggun made history for being the first Asian artist to break into the international music scene by releasing her first international album Snow on the Sahara in 33 countries across the world.

After her first international album, she has mainly released albums in Europe and Asia only where she has produced several hit singles over the years.

To date, Anggun has released 12 studio albums (5 in Indonesian and English, 4 in French) as well as 2 compilation albums and one soundtrack album.

She was raised in Yogyakarta, a Javanese capital and cultural center.

Her father trained Anggun in singing since age 7 with high discipline.

To further develop her career, her mother began serving as her manager, accepting singing offers and handling her business.

In her teens, Anggun was influenced by native Javanese artists as well as by rock roll singers and bands such as Elvis Presley, Metallica and The Police.

In 1986, with Ian Antono, an Indonesian famous producer, Anggun released her first official album titled Dunia Aku Punya which began her success homeland.

Angguns fame reached its peak with the release of subsequent singles, Mimpi and most notably Tua Tua Keladi (the latter gave her The Most Popular Indonesian Artist 1990-1991 award).

Following the success of these singles, Anggun returned to release follow-up albums; Anak Putih Abu Abu in 1991 and then Nocturno in 1992.

Both albums achieved great success and moreover established her as one of Indonesias Lady Rockers.

In 1992, Anggun began a relationship with Michel Georgea, a French man, whom she had met the year before in Kalimantan while touring.

The couple decided to marry, despite their age gap and a rumored objection by Angguns family, reportedly because they felt Anggun was too young to get married.

After the marriage, however, she founded a record company, Bali Cipta Record, (making her the youngest Indonesian singer to do so) and released what would be her final Indonesian studio album, Anggun C.

Sasmi. Lah in 1993.

She attempted to shed her tomboy image with the video for the albums first single, Kembalilah Kasih (Kita Harus Bicara).

Meanwhile, it became the first music video by Indonesian artist to appear in MTV Asia, Hong Kong.

The album was another smash hit for Anggun but she began to feel unsatisfied with her success in her country and started thinking about having an international music career.

Previously in 1992, Anggun signed a deal with a renowned Japanese recording company in Singapore, Pony Canyon, to record an English album which would be released in Asia.

But later the project was canceled, as Anggun wanted to bring her talent to the West.

Finally, in 1994 after the release of a compilation album containing all her Indonesian hits entitled Yang Hilang, she sold her record company to fund her move to Europe.

Tough beginnings in Europe Having given up all of her success in Indonesia, Anggun and her husband moved to UK.

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.

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.

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