Dangdut, the Most Popular Music in Indonesia.

Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian popular music that is partly derived from Malay, Arabic, and Hindustani music. It developed in the 1970s among working-class Muslim youth, but beginning in the late 1990s reached a broader following in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the southern Philippines

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A dangdut band typically consists of a lead singer, male or female, backed by four to eight musicians. Instruments usually include a tabla, mandolin, guitars, and synthesizers. The term has been expanded from the desert-style music to embrace other musical styles. Modern dangdut incorporates influences from Middle Eastern pop music, Western rock, house music, hip-hop music, contemporary R&B, and reggae

Dangdut music is gaining popularity among the Indonesian people and non Indonesians alike, Dangdut Happy rhythm of real life getting more and more popular among kids, teenagers, adults, men and women, that means everyone of all ages.

Many consider the Dangdut music to be the country's most popular music of Indonesia, where you can hear Dangdut in the unforgettable streets of the Capital Jakarta.

Dangdut is so unique that you cannot find the same music anywhere else, only in Indonesia, only Dangdut is the cross roads of music world wide, North and South, East and West, Old and New, Indonesia's Dangdut got no Time or Geographic Barriers Dangdut got no Limits.