So Long Lord Didi, You've Helped Us Through Our Ambyar Time In One Piece

Campursari is Didi and Didi is campursari. Talking of campursari without making mention of Didi is a sin, for he occupies a lordship status, a legend in that line of music. It is a mix of many kinds of music: western, eastern, local tradition touch, as well as the music of my country, dangdut.

Didi embarked his music pursuit in the 1980's. He first made it in the streets of Jogja as pengamen (street musician). He also reached out to Jakarta. He picked his stage name Kempot, Kelompok Penyanyi Trotoar meaning street singers, to refer to his main root.

Asked why he chose campursari, Didi felt challenged to change the young who favored popular musics over it. Judging from how far Didi has come, Didi has taken over his quest.

We can sum up some of his messages: to be persistent in waiting for your lover, be realistic and do not let carried away by distant fond memories.

It's okay to celebrate being dumped, betrayed. It's fine to enjoy pain being in wait. It is so because after a rain comes a rainbow, and a break up is not the end of life.

What he is most remembered for and probably the iceng on the cake of his great feat is an online fund raising he collaborated with Kompas TV about a month ago. It marked 7.6 million rupiah in only a few hours.

Didi's journey is an exemplary one to remember: you go places in your own line of profession, and you help make a worthy contribution to a wider public, in Didi's case fighting a deadly pandemic. When all this passes, Lord Didi is a hero, and he dies a hero's death.

Rest in peace beautiful soul. God just gained an angel


Reference:
https://www.facebook.com/961333513929517/posts/3146019048794275/

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