Indra Aziz

Indra Aziz is a vocalist, saxophonist, and composer from Jakarta, Indonesia. His first music experience as a child was from his mother, who was a singer, actress, painter, writer, and traditional west Javanese dancer, Rosita Sanusi. Graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Trisakti in Jakarta, continued his music study in Farabi Music School and Institut Musik Daya, Indra Began singing professionally in 2001, performing with his quintet. Since his early musical career, Indra has sang and played with many Indonesian jazz greats, names like Deviana Daudsjah, Dwiki Dharmawan, Indra Lesmana, Idang Rasjidi, Aksan Sjuman, Bob Tutupoly, Ireng Maulana, and Margie Segers. Playing in jazz festivals and concerts such as Java Jazz Festival, Jak Jazz Festival, and Pasar Jazz. Indra also performed with many groups from different genres such as Tomorrow People Ensemble, Dayaswara, Opustr3 bigband, and Sore Ze band. As a composer, Indra wrote many original music both vocal and instrumental, and currently recording some of it for his debut “In The Moment”. Indra also wrote some big band arrangements with Opustr3 team, for artists like Shelomita, Dian Pisesha, and recently Ruth Sahanaya in her 2006 Christmas album “Joyful Christmas”. In March 2006, indra released his first single “Jakarta City Blues”, an acapella arrangement using only Indra’s voice, layered, and improvised, about the big manggo, Jakarta. The single then got nominated for AMI awards, the Indonesian grammy, for best production in jazz. Indra is also a guest lecturer in Universitas Pelita Harapan's faculty of fine arts and a music teacher for young students as well in Sekolah Al-Falah. Also check out his new group SOULEH & SOULEHAH for a heavy dose of soul/funk/rock/jazz. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.