Aluna Sagita Gutawa better known as Gita Gutawa, is an Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

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Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

, actress, and songwriter; she is also the daughter of noted composer Erwin Gutawa

Erwin Gutawa

Erwin Gutawa is an Indonesian composer and father of Gita Gutawa. In 1985, he started his professional music career by joining the jazz band Karimata, later becoming an independent composer in 1991. As a composer, he won the 1992 Midnight Sun Song Festival in Finland together with Ruth Sahanaya...

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Although she originally studied piano, Gutawa later switched to vocals. She was discovered in 2004 while practicing her vocals, then booked to sing a duet with ADA Band. After album featuring the duet sold 800,000 copies, Gutawa was approached by Sony Music Indonesia with an offer to record a solo album.