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Meida started singing at the age of 13 and has produced dozens of albums. [1]In 1986, Kalangkang was released. [1] This album has sold more than 1 million copies. [2]Her popular songs include Kalangkang (Shadow), which became a huge hit and is considered an archetype of Sundanese pop, [3] and Situ Patenggang.
Sundanese culture, language and music are quite distinct from those of the Javanese people of Central and East Java - although of course there are also elements in common. In Sunda there is a bewildering diversity of musical genres , musical composition and tuning systems are recognizably different.
The pangolin trade is the illegal poaching, trafficking, and sale of pangolins, parts of pangolins, or pangolin-derived products on the black market.Pangolins are believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal, accounting for as much as 20% of all illegal wildlife trade.
SambaSunda (originally known as CBMW) [1] is an Indonesian ethnic music fusion group based in Bandung, the capital and cultural centre of Sundanese culture in Indonesia. SambaSunda is a 14-piece ensemble bringing together a pan- Indonesian array of instruments and influences to create a new style of gamelan orchestra.
Tembang sunda, also called seni mamaos cianjuran, is a style of classical vocal music that originated in the Priangan highland of western Java. Unlike Sundanese gamelan music, tembang sunda was developed in the court of the regent Kabupaten Cianjur during the Dutch colonial period (mid-nineteenth century).
In early 2020, a video declaring the existence of the Sunda Empire went viral in Indonesia, mainly spreading through Facebook and YouTube. In the video, a man claiming to be the secretary general of the empire, HRH Rangga, was explaining to a group of people wearing military-style uniforms and blue berets [8] that Sunda Empire was a "Sun and Earth empire" and had no connection to the Sundanese ...
The word 'tarawangsa' comes from the Sundanese language. Tarawangsa comes from three combinations of words, namely 'Ta - Ra - Wangsa'.'Ta' is an acronym for the word 'Meta' which means 'movement', then 'Ra' means 'great fire' or 'the sun', and 'Wangsa' is a synonym for the word 'nation'.
Classic Album Sundays hosts album listening events in which classic albums are played in their entirety on vinyl. It was founded in 2010 by radio host and DJ Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy because she felt that albums weren't getting the attention they deserved. [1] The inaugural event took place in the Hanbury Arms in Islington, London. [2]