![]() ![]() ![]() By 1991, Bintang Kehidupan had sold over two million copies and won two BASF Awards, for Best New Artist and Best Selling Album. The album itself also topped the charts on its debut, selling over 500,000 copies in its first week and setting a new record for single-week sales by a female artist. The title track stayed at the top of the charts for ten weeks, and the album had further hits with the top-ten ballad "Cinta Pertama", and the top-five song "Tembang Asmara." In the spring of 1990, Ardilla released her second album, Bintang Kehidupan, with a chart-topping title track. It reached number one on the charts, and sold over 1 million copies within a year. When Ardilla was 13, she released her debut album Seberkas Sinar in 1989 which she managed to finish recording within a day. In 1987, she contributed to a compilation album titled Bandung Rock Power, which featured Nicky Astria, Mel Shandy among others. Career ĭenny Sabri, a talent scout, helped Ardilla sign a record deal with Arista Records. They eventually settled in Bandung where she began performing in talent shows at the age of five, winning a local singing competition in 1980. Her father worked for the Indonesian Railway Company ( PT Kereta Api Indonesia), which caused the family to move periodically throughout her childhood. She has Dutch and German ancestry from her maternal grandmother who was descended from the Geesdorf family. Raden Rara Nike Ratnadilla was born on 27 December 1975 in Bandung, West Java, to youngest child of three siblings of Raden Edi Kusnadi and Nining Ningsihrat. Īrdilla has sold more than 30 million albums to date, making her the best-selling Indonesian artist in history and her 1990 album Bintang Kehidupan which has sold over 6 million copies in Southeast Asia, holds the title of being the best-selling Indonesian album of all time. The media regularly refers to the fact that she is the only musician in the country whose death continues to be mourned even after more than 25 years, and hailed by many as one of the most successful figures in Indonesia's entertainment industry. Her death prompted an outpouring of nationwide grief. At the height of her career and fame in 1995, she was involved in a traffic incident that took her life at the age of 19. Usually referred to as the "Lady Rocker" and the "Queen of Rock" by the Indonesian media, Ardilla was instrumental in the return of teen pop rock in the country's music scene, and a dominant presence during the first half of the 1990s. Raden Rara Nike Ratnadilla (27 December 1975 – 19 March 1995), better known as Nike Ardilla ( Indonesian pronunciation: ), was an Indonesian singer, actress, model, and philanthropist. ![]()
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