Anggun in Bangkok, Thailand

Off to Bangkok.

 

Anggun in the studio near Bang Kapi, Bangkok, Thailand for shooting in her new advertising Pantene Indonesia.

Surprise for Anggun on the TVC production set ;) What a nice thought from the crew ;) An unforgettable moment!

Watch X-Factor's episode #18 with the participation of Anggun!

'Vivre D'amour' at Belgium Chart - UltraTop Chart

'Vivre D'amour' by Anggun & Natasha StPier now at #46 on Belgium Chart - UltraTop Chart.

Link : http://www.ultratop.be/fr/showitem.asp?interpret=Natasha+St-Pier+%26+Anggun&titel=Vivre+d%27amour&cat=s

Anggun & Natasha St-Pier on the TV set of France 3

Anggun & Natasha St-Pier and TV host Daniela Lumbroso on the TV set of France 3.

Anggun Thailand, Anggun fans in Thailand

Anggun Thailand on Available!

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Anggun in LuarBiasa Magazine, April 2013

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Anggun in Indonesian Magazine, LuarBiasa Magazine, April 2013.

Anggun C. Sasmi

Perjalanan karier Anggun C. Sasmi hingga menjadi penyanyi internasional menggambarkan bahwa tak ada cara instan untuk menjadi penyanyi dunia. Di ranah global di mana profesional menjadi tuntutan utama, kerja keras, konsistensi, gigih, teguh, fokus, menjadi senjata yang tak bisa dielakkan. Dalam hal fokus, Anggun menjalaninya dengan baik. Ia tak tergoda oleh hal-hal di luar profesinya sebagai penyanyi. Begitu teguhnya sampai-sampai saat mendapat tawaran untuk ikut berperan dalam film James Bond –hal yang amat jarang diterima penyanyi Asia– ia tak tergoda. “Aku tidak akan mencoba profesi lain karena menurutku masih banyak orang yang memang dilahirkan untuk menjadi bintang film atau model. Aku merasa panggilan jiwaku adalah musik,” katanya.

Di balik sosoknya yang anggun, Anggun adalah pekerja keras. Ia teguh. Ia juga berani. Prinsipnya kuat. Kepada Majalah LuarBiasa ia berani menuturkan soal sikap nasionalismenya, status kewarganegaraannya, dan kiat suksesnya melewati tahapan great, lalu menjadi greater, sampai upayanya menjadi greatest. Ikuti wawancara khususnya di Majalah LuarBiasa edisi April 2013.

Link : http://majalahluarbiasa.com/?p=412

Natasha St-Pier & Anggun - Vivre D'Amour (Official Music Video)

Anggun : The happiness factor - The Jakarta Post Indonesia

Anggun C. Sasmi overcame initial reservations to become a judge on X Factor Indonesia. The mother-of-one finds that mentoring the hopefuls and taking them under her wing requires its own form of parenting.

Since its debut earlier this year, X Factor Indonesia has enjoyed phenomenal success. Part of the attraction for viewers is the show’s fresh take on the usual talent contests aired in Indonesia, along with the bevy of mostly Gen Y singing talents who have quickly become household names and earned social media cred.

There is also the mix of personalities of the judges – level-headed singer Anggun C. Sasmi, happy-go-lucky crooner Rossa, shoot-from-the-hip musician Ahmad Dhani and cool, calm and collected singer-songwriter Bebi Romeo – and the often humorous, occasionally barbed repartee as they go to bat for their charges.

Anggun, who turns 39 on April 29, admits she was reluctant to accept the producer’s offer for the show. Herself a music business prodigy, she knows what it’s like to be a performer in the harsh glare of the spotlight and subject to criticism (she shrugs off her lowly finish in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, representing her adopted homeland of France, as having a lot to do with the notorious political allegiances at play in the Europe-wide contest).

“I didn’t want to judge other singers. But the difference is that I am mentoring, I’m not just sitting there saying, ‘you’re no good’,” she says of why she took up the offer.

“To me, that is much healthier, because you’re really involved with them. They’re like my younger brothers — we went to see a movie together, I give them vitamin C, I genuinely care for them.”

She has left her husband, writer Cyril Montana, and her daughter, Kirana, 5, at their Paris home during the run of the show, scheduled through mid-May. She describes mentoring as a round-the-clock, emotionally and physically consuming job, from picking songs, the performance outfits, to making sure her proteges are in good spirits so everything goes right on the night.

 “I breathe X Factor but then maybe I’m taking this way too seriously. I’m a bit of a Jewish mother, which I guess sounds strange from a Muslim,” she chuckles.

In her balanced comments about performances, she refers to the advice of her late father, the writer Darto Singo, to always be careful in what she says, weigh the ramifications of her words and accentuate the positive.

Sending performers home is tough, she said. Each is good in his or her own way, and courageous to face criticism (her own singer, Gede Bagus, was eliminated on Friday night).

“I told him to remember that he was watched by millions of people every week, and this is his stepping stone,” she said of her parting words to contestant Agus Hafiluddin.

“As mentors, we can only go so far with them — it’s up to them how far they want to go.”

Anggun herself was willing to step out of her comfort zone to develop her talents. She left a successful career as an edgy teenage “lady rocker” — “it seemed like a good idea for the time, now maybe not so much,” she laughs — to go abroad at age 20, eventually settling in Paris, learning French and dealing with rejection before landing a record contract.

Sacrifice and hard work paid off. Anggun scored an international hit with the haunting Snow on the Sahara in 1997, followed by several other albums (a best-of album, Design of a Decade 2003-2013, is set for release in May). The naturalized French citizen has been embraced by the French populace as one of their own; she is also active in various causes for UN agencies.

In her birthplace, X Factor Indonesia is also bringing her to the attention of a new generation of Indonesians, the Mikha Angelos and Fatin Shidqia Lubis of the show, who did not grow up with the beret-wearing teen with the powerful vocals.

Still, she admits her relationship with her birthplace is a complicated one. She terms changing her citizenship an “administrative change”, a practicality in living abroad and marrying a Frenchman, as well as the hassle entailed in securing visas for almost all destinations on an Indonesian passport.

It’s tiring having to justify to some people that she herself didn’t change when she changed her passport. And hurtful, too.

 “I feel like a stranger here,” she says, an unusually blunt statement from the usually amiable Anggun. “They will never forgive me for changing my citizenship.”

 She tells of some local journalists insisting on speaking English to her, as though she may have somehow forgotten Indonesian (“if that’s how they feel, then they really should speak French to me”). In a cringe-inducing moment, one TV interviewer asked her if she still ate rice.

It’s true that scrolling through YouTube comments about X Factor brings a few snide entries about her citizenship. But there are also many posters who express pride in her talent and international success.

 “Those are the people who think, who have been abroad and read,” she says, pausing to weigh her words. “Or maybe I am being harsh on myself. We tend to believe the worst critics, and the things that hurt us the most.”

She confesses to exhibiting contrasting reactions to criticism; the Indonesian in her cares what people think, the European is willing to dismiss their words as having no direct bearing on her life.

“The color of my passport doesn’t change my childhood or my blood. Maybe these [the critics] are people who when they go abroad feel they will have to change themselves. That’s not me […] But I know that the people who love me, love me.”

One of them is Kirana, who has made a brief visit to her mother in Jakarta before they vacation at the family’s villa in Bali. She credits having her daughter for changing her life and her priorities — an important factor in her own happiness.

“I’m extremely happy. Now, if I was 39 and not a mother, then that would be a problem — that’s very Asian of me,” she says.

She will turn 40 in 2014, that major, often feared milestone for many. She looks remarkably youthful on this day, wearing a T-shirt, sans makeup and sipping jasmine tea, contentedly keeping an eye on Kirana as she plays with a new friend.

“When you are at peace with yourself, you don’t look your age. And good genes and a good plastic surgeon also would help,” she laughs.

Link :  http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/04/07/anggun-c-sasmi-the-happiness-factor.html

Anggun - Mum’s the word - The Jakarta Post Indonesia

Anggun C. Sasmi has bid a temporary adieu to her Paris home and family to become a judge on the hit talent show X Factor Indonesia.

Anggun arrives a tad late at the lounge of a Central Jakarta hotel. She is trailed by her 5-year-old daughter, Kirana, who is a vision of an urban princess in her white slip dress and tiny tiara, a shopping bag in hand.

“She was looking for shoes,” Anggun sighs as explanation for their tardiness.

Kirana and Anggun’s husband, the French writer Cyril Montana, are visiting from Paris for a week. It is Friday afternoon; Anggun will have to get ready soon for the prime-time production of RCTI’s hit show X Factor Indonesia.

Being away from her daughter and husband is difficult, she admits, even though they Skype daily and she has done the long flight back to Paris twice during the past three months.

Kirana is a beautiful, inquisitive child; like children everywhere, she is not averse to trying to wiggle her way out of eating lunch to go straight to dessert. Firm but not harsh, Anggun speaks to her in Indonesian, and the child responds fluently in both French and her mother’s native tongue.

“She told me that she thinks she is about to get her adult teeth,” Anggun, 38, says. “Oh, the joys of being a mother.”

Anggun, who left Indonesia to pursue an international career at age 20, had a sometimes hard-scrabble childhood financially. Kirana, in contrast, is a child of privilege. The singer and her husband do their best to make her aware of her good fortune, including taking her with them on visits to a homeless community near their Paris home.

The naturalized French citizen said in a recent interview that she would not resist if her daughter wanted to be a bakso seller, just as long as she made the tastiest meatballs on the market.

“I’m not one of those mothers who says, ‘Well, my daughter knows how to read at age 4, my daughter speaks 14 languages.’ More power to you then. Most of all, I want her to be happy, a normal little girl,” she says.

While she calls herself “very protective” of Kirana — her Instagram shots never show the child’s face — she also wants to give her the freedom to find her own way as she grows into an adult.

“I will fully support her in making mistakes. You want to smoke, then go ahead, just don’t do it in front of me.”

In that way, she will be following in the footsteps of her late father, the writer Darto Singo.

“I thank my father for supporting my curiosity. My father always traveled in his head, in his writings, but he never took an airplane. He said to me, ‘go out and see the world’.”

And that’s exactly what she did.

Link : http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/04/07/mum-s-word.html#.UWIf4XkDW_g.twitter

Anggun & Natasha St-Pier's 'Vivre d'Amour'. Soon on TF1, France's leading TV channel

Beautiful picture of Anggun and Canadian star Natasha St-Pier for the musical project 'Thérèse'... Soon on TF1, France's leading TV channel...

Full episode of X-Factor (7th Gala show) with Anggun

Watch the full episode of X-Factor (7th Gala show) with the participation of Anggun...

Schiller mit Anggun - Always You (Sonne Live in Berlin 2012)

Watch the FABULOUS performance of Anggun with Schiller in Hamburg in Germany. This amazing live performance will be included in Anggun's upcoming Best-Of release 'Design of a Decade CD+DVD'... Stay tuned!

Anggun at Panasonic Gobel Awards

 

 

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