She started singing in 1986. Her father, Darto Singo, was a famous singer and producer in Indonesia and Anggun decided to follow in her father's footsteps. At the tender age of 7 years she recorded her first album with children's song.
At 12, after becoming interested in rock music, she recorded her second heavily rock influenced album, "Dunia Aku Punya", that in the indonesian language mean "World of mine". This album became very popular and she became a megastar in East Asia. Having already had tremendous success in her homeland Indonesia, she decided to pursue an international career and left Indonesia in 1995, when she was only 19.
She settled in Paris, France and met producer Erick Benzi, who later helped her sign a record deal with Sony Music France and recorded her first French album, Au Nom de la Lune, in 1996. The album was released in 1997 and spawned a hit single, "La neige au Sahara". She re-recorded the album in English and it produced her biggest worldwide hit single to date, "Snow on the Sahara." The album has been released in 33 countries across the world, including the US.
To date, Anggun has sold approximately 3 million copies of records worldwide and has become the most successful Asian artist outside Asia. Her success has spread throughout Europe, particularly in France and Italy.
What if you could tell the world who you really are in 12 songs? That’s a bit what it feels like when you listen to Echoes, Anggun’s much-awaited new album.
A lot has been written about the Indonesian singer. Some people have mentioned a fairytale to explain the rise of a young music-loving girl who became a superstar in the country of her birth before striking out to conquer France and Europe when she was only about 20. Following a stream of hits in French, English and Indonesian (and her massive international hit Snow On The Sahara), she has now sold over 2 million records in just a few years. Her albums have been released in 35 countries and she has made the Top 5 in the European charts and the Top 20 of the US Billboard charts. Add to this a wide-ranging list of prizes and honours including a World Music Awards performance, giving the Christmas concert at the Vatican in the presence of Pope John Paul II, an interview with CNN in New York and her extremely prestigious nomination as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France. Quite simply, Anggun is the Asian artist who has sold the most records outside Asia, without doubt one of the most famous Asian stars internationally.
People have also often listed the duets the woman has been involved in. Her eclectic musical tastes make her feel just as comfortable singing with Peter Gabriel, Michael Bolton, Julio Iglesias, Bryan Adams and Zucchero as with DJ Cam, Laurent Wolf and Pras from The Fugees. Her eclectic taste in movies have seen her perform the theme tune for American blockbusters (The #1 US box office movie The Transporter II) ; arthouse films (Open Hearts directed by Academy Awards winner Susanne Bier) and even the soundtrack to the latest feature film by legendary French director Claude Lelouch (Ces Amours-là).
With each passing year and album, she has kept surprising us and kept reinventing herself through new artistic projects and her own personal development. Echoes, in a sense, sums up this transformation, returning to the pop sound that made her name, but this time with new collaborators. The origins of this album are to be found in the coming together of two teams familiar with success: Gioacchino and Pierre Jaconelli on the one hand, and the duo of Jean-Pierre Pilot and William Rousseau on the other. Anggun has been involved in every step of the making of Echoes. She has written the lyrics of every song, making this album probably her most personal to date.
“I love her timbre. I’d been wanting to work with her for a while,” explains Giacchino, who has already collaborated with the biggest French stars, and who is currently working on Celine Dion’s upcoming new album. “I found in her the very same depth of personality that I liked about her voice.” This profoundness is felt in the Irish-influenced smash hit single Only Love, which deals with the quest for true and unconditional love. A Stranger timidly speaks of the loneliness and fear of the unknown that were often a feature of the singer’s constant moving around. Whereas a few years ago Anggun still sang of exile as a painful experience, now she knows where she is headed, as she has accepted that her destiny will always be bound up with travelling. Year of the Snake is a restrained song that gives the thoughts of a woman remembering painful momentsof her life. And yet, without any excess exoticism or pointless clichés, you find subtle traces of the singer’s Indonesian roots via the various subjects she tackles. Eternal talks of accepting the death of a loved one, without seeking to squeeze a tear out of the listener at any cost. On the other hand, the extremely sensual Rollercoaster, composed by Axel Bauer, conjures up the passion and sense of drama that can be part of the singer’s life aswell.
Jean-Pierre Pilot and William Rousseau were coming off the back of major successes in France when they met Anggun. “What surprised us was the contrast between the simple, fun-loving woman we had in front of us and the image of the superstar diva we know from her videos or live performances. The two personalities coexist inside her in perfect harmony,” William Rousseau explains. “As a result, we were keen to explore her more private side without going off into completely pared-down musical style.” Many women will identify with the themes of the album: an upbeat girl’s power message in Weapons, the weariness of My Addiction or the acceptance of who we really are in Impossible. Anggun reveals herself to be both mischievous and totally fulfilled. Yet the power of the melodies does not supplant the emotion, as illustrated by the bittersweet Buy me happiness and the discreet Silent vow.
Anggun is offering exclusive bonus tracks in this new album: Count on me, Sorry and the hypnotic song Always You produced by German electro-pop superstar Schiller, taken from the artist’s latest album which has reached the #1 spot in the German Album Charts and went Gold a few weeks after its release.
Sometimes fatale, sometimes disappointed, often amorous and always strong, Anggun sings about the woman she was and above all about the woman she is today. Neither completely the same nor completely someone else, with Echoes she gives us her most personal and paradoxically most universal album: the Echoes of an artist who is no longer torn between two cultures – her heartland of Indonesia and her adoptive country France; she has managed to find an equilibrium between these two worlds and to make the very best of them.
Discography
Indonesian-language albums:
* 1986: Dunia Aku Punya
* 1990: Mimpi
* 1990: Tua Tua Keladi
* 1990: Takut
* 1991: Anak Putih Abu Abu
* 1992: Nocturno
* 1993: Anggun C. Sasmi... Lah!!!
* 1994: Yang Hilang
* 2011: Echoes (May)
French-language albums
* 1997: Au nom de la lune
* 2000: Désirs Contraires
* 2005: Luminescence
* 2006: Luminescence Edition Speciale
* 2008: Elévation
* 2011: Echos (September)
English-language albums:
* 1998: Snow on the Sahara
* 1999: Anggun
* 2000: Chrysalis
* 2002: Open Hearts
* 2005: Luminescence
* 2006: Luminescence Special Edition
* 2007: Best Of
* 2008: Elevation
* 2011: Echoes
Broken Dreams
Anggun Lyrics
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And nothing could tear us apart
But I feel that something has gone wrong
I must try to find the way
To tell you what I want to say
That I feel that something has gone wrong
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
I don't feel the flame again
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
See me
Free me
Let me go
I will not promise you
The things I can't do
And I can't afford to live in love that's through
Forgive me I have sinned
I've made a broken dream
And this has to end, I hope you understand
'Cause I don't feel the flame again
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
I don't feel the flame again
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
See me
Free me
Let me go
Promise that we'd share our lives
And nothing would tear us apart
But I feel that something has gone wrong
The lyrics of Anggun's song "Broken Dream" speak of a failing relationship between two individuals who had promised to share their lives and stay together forever. The singer expresses a sense that something has gone wrong in their relationship and that they no longer feel the same way they used to about their partner. The singer tries to find a way to communicate these feelings of disappointment to their partner but is having trouble doing so.
The second stanza talks of the singer's desire to stop pretending that they still love their partner even though their feelings have changed. The refrain, "I don't feel the flame again, I don't want to have to pretend that I'm still in love with you," is a clear indication of this. The singer is willing to end the relationship because they cannot afford to live in love that is no longer genuine. They ask for forgiveness for breaking their partner's dream of staying together.
The chorus, "See me, free me, let me go," is a plea from the singer to their partner to let them go so that they can move on from their failed relationship. The song's message is one of acceptance of change and the inevitability of relationships evolving over time. Sometimes, love is not enough to keep a relationship going, and it is better to move on and let go.
Line by Line Meaning
We promised that we'd share our lives
We made a vow that we would live our lives together.
And nothing could tear us apart
We believed that there was nothing that could come between us.
But I feel that something has gone wrong
I sense that our relationship has taken a bad turn.
I must try to find the way
I need to find a way to communicate what I am feeling.
To tell you what I want to say
To say what I mean and be honest about my emotions.
That I feel that something has gone wrong
To express the feeling that something has gone awry in our relationship.
'Cause I don't feel the flame again
I no longer feel passion and love for you as before.
I don't want to have to pretend
I do not want to fake my emotions or lie to you.
That I'm still in love with you
That I am still romantically in love with you.
See me
Take a closer look at me, at who I am and what I am feeling.
Free me
Allow me to be honest about my emotions and make my own choices.
Let me go
If our love is over, I am asking you to let me move on.
I will not promise you
I cannot make any promises that I cannot keep.
The things I can't do
I am not capable of certain things and cannot pretend to be otherwise.
And I can't afford to live in love that's through
I cannot sustain a relationship that has lost its spark and love.
Forgive me I have sinned
I am admitting that I have done wrong and asking for forgiveness.
I've made a broken dream
I have destroyed the dream that we had for our future together.
And this has to end, I hope you understand
Our relationship has to end because there is no more love and we cannot pretend anymore.
Promise that we'd share our lives
We pledged to each other that we would live our lives together.
And nothing would tear us apart
We believed that no obstacle could damage our relationship.
But I feel that something has gone wrong
I sense that something has gone terribly wrong, and our relationship has suffered.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
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Aan Mahargiani
We promised that we'd share our lives
And nothing could tear us apart
But I feel that something has gone wrong
I must try to find the way
To tell you what I want to say
That I feel that something has gone wrong
Cause I don't feel the flame again
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
I don't feel the flame again
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
See me
Free me
Let me go
I will not promise you
The things I can't do
And I can't afford to live in love that's through
Forgive me I have sinned
I've made a broken dream
And this has to end, I hope you understand
Cause I don't feel the flame again
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
I don't feel the flame again
I don't want to have to pretend
That I'm still in love with you
See me
Free Me
Let me go
Promise that we'd share our lives
And nothing would tear us apart
But I feel that something has gone wrong
Prilly Fortuna
Her tone is beautifull
E J
Love it
Alex Ilyin
one of her very best ballad!
sensuality is all about anggun!
Santoso Dahari
@Alex Ilyin do you have Instagram?
Imah Abdul
Awesome....
Pedro Henrique
Incredible and beautiful song! Anggun is TALENT!
Raster Affandi
Her voice brings me to another dimension.
The Chinchilla Channel
I really like her voice and she seems like a genuinely nice person in interviews. But, she obviously has not been 'lucky in love" - and I say that knowing that I will never know the full story behind her failed relationships - was it her? Was it him? Was it both? Was it her career? Was it a combination of all of the above? But, I fail to see what is so great about this song. Yes, the melody is good, but the words seem a little silly and shallow. If you expect to always be 'in love' and that not being 'in love' any more is grounds for ending a marriage, then perhaps you should consider remaining single. Does this song also apply to the next two failed marriages. Sorry to vent. Like I said, I really like her, but I am surprised at the praise for this song.
gilbert sianturi
So that she said, "Forgive me I have sinned I've made broken dream."
Hamzah Ali
Ces't magnifique chanson 👍🏿👍🏿