His name is Arreal Tilghman. A citizen of Delaware, Philladephia who win “Dangdut in America” singing competition after beating 90 other contestants in the U.S.
Tilghman said he was in a process of producing his first dangdut album with several Indonesian talents. They include some senior singers such as Trie Utami, who acting as his singing coach.
His strong black music background produced a unique crossover with dangdut.
Dangdut is a music genre which mixes Indian, Arabic, and Western music styles. It was labeled as Indonesian lower class music, but this image has gradually changed over the years.
“I love all kinds of music, but dangdut is really special,” he said on Friday night. “I’m really interested in becoming dangdut star.”
on Sep 15th, 2008 at 9:13 am
wow, its mean dangdut go international ?
its nice, but i don’t like dangdut… :D
on Sep 16th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
yes it is
same here, i dont like dangdut much, but its a good thing that people from different nation are interested in our dangdut :)
on Oct 6th, 2008 at 8:49 am
How i may contact admin this site? I have a question.
iijiivei
on Oct 9th, 2008 at 1:27 am
@acnagedon : you can send me an email at bang.nanad@gmail.com ;)
on Oct 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
dangdut is music of my country……