Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Agnes Monica-Amazing talent from Indonesia

Agnes Monica-Amazing talent from Indonesia



Born in Jakarta, 1 July 1986, Agnes Monica started her career in singing and acting since she was 6 years old. She started off by recording 3 children's album which was popular during the time she made it. by the year 2003, she made another album called "And The Story Goes"This marked her transition from being a child singer to a female artist. By the year 2005, She started to shine even more and had the chance to collaborate with an American R&B singer Keith Martin on her album "Whaddup a..?!" nevertheless she is success on her singing career, her acting career also rocketed up. She even appeared on 2 Taiwanese drama series, "The Hospital" and also "Romance in the White House"

She participated in the Asia Song Festival in Seoul in the year 2008 and 2009 and won "Best Asian Artist" award for both of the years she participated. Her sixth album was a blast. she served as the producer and also the songwriter for her own album called "Sacredly Agnezious" in 2009. Apart from being just a wonderful singer and actress, Agnes is gifted by her talent of dancing, She is very natural when it comes to dancing and very good at almost every type of dances. She is known to have the best dance crew for singers in Indonesia because even herself dances with power and amazes everyone by her dance. She was pointed later as a judge in the show "Indonesian Idol"and she was also chosen to be the host of the red carpet at the "American Music Awards" (2010) in Los Angeles.


Agnes became the most-awarded Indonesian singer because of her amazing talent. She received lots and lots of awards including 10 "Anugerah Musik Indonesia" awards, 7 "Panasonic Awards" and 4 "MTV Indonesia Awards" she was also honored with a "Nugraha Bhakti Musik Indonesia" from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Singers, Songwriters, and Music Record Producers Association of Indonesia (PAPPRI) for her outstanding contribution for Indonesian music industry. She was also appointed as an anti-drug ambassador of Asia, and also the ambassador of MTV EXIT in order to combat human trafficking. Throughout her career, many controversies gets in line, when she was a teenager, her frequent comments about her goal to break into the International market was viewed by some as a pompous proclamation. Anyhow, in 2010 she started to work on a debut on English studio Album. Her slogan "Dream, Believe and Make it Happen" was used in a 2011 cultural conference to inspire young people organized by the US embassy in Jakarta.

In 2012, she proved herself worth competing with in the "Shorty Awards" where the nominees in her category also included Justin Bieber! she proved to the world that she is capable of it and proved to the world that no matter where she came from, developing country, and there aren't a lot of Indonesian singers that could have the opportunity to go International like her, she is actually liked by lots of people around the world. She never forgot who contributed upon her succession. she is a very dedicated Christian because she started to learn how to sing by contributing to choirs in churches. she never forgot to thank God and her family for her success which is very humble.


She then opened a dance studio because lots of people admires her talent in dancing. Unlike any other singers that loves to dance while singing but lipsync-ing, she always goes live every single time. she is never bothered by the fact that she has to sing and dance at the same time and she manages it properly even though she has to dance with power it does not make her voice sounds tired at all because she really practiced hard. Below is one of her performance in one of the biggest show in Indonesia.