1. Anggun rose to fame in 1989 as a teenage rock star and by 1993 she had released five Indonesian-language studio albums and a soundtrack album to the Indonesian film Si Roy.
146 Facts About Anggun
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Anggun left Indonesia for England in 1994 to pursue an international career.
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Anggun later moved to France and recorded her first international album, Snow on the Sahara.
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Anggun represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, with the song "Echo ".
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Anggun ventured into television, becoming the judge for the Indonesian versions of The X Factor, Got Talent, and The Voice ; the pancontinental Asia's Got Talent ; the French version of Masked Singer ; and the Belgian version of StarMaker.
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Anggun was the leading actress in musical theater show Al Capone and played supporting roles in the film Coup de foudre a Bangkok and TV series Profession Comedien.
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Anggun is one of the best-selling Asian artists outside Asia, with her releases certified gold and platinum in some European countries.
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Anggun is the first Indonesian artist to have success in European and American record charts.
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Anggun has received accolades for her achievements, including the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the Government of France, the World Music Award for World's Best-Selling Indonesian Artist, and the Asian Television Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Television Performing Arts.
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Anggun became the first woman from Indonesia to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds.
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Anggun is the second child of Darto Singo, a Javanese writer, and Dien Herdina, a housewife from the Yogyakarta royal family.
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At the age of seven, Anggun began receiving daily strict instructions in singing and was given homework to write poems with the melodies that could become a song, aimed at triggering her songwriting skills, by her father.
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At the age of nine, Anggun started writing her own songs and recorded her debut album, which featured covers of songs by Indonesian country singer Ritta Rubby Hartland, titled Kepada Alam dan Pencintanya.
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Anggun rose to fame three years later, with the single "Mimpi"; it was ranked by Rolling Stone Indonesia as one of the 150 Greatest Indonesian Songs of All Time.
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Anggun recorded the studio albums Anak Putih Abu Abu and Nocturno.
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In 1992, Anggun began a relationship with Michel Georgea, a French engineer.
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Anggun produced her fourth Indonesian studio album, Anggun C Sasmi.
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Anggun was dissatisfied with her success in her country and began considering an international music career.
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In 1994, Anggun released Yang Hilang, a greatest hits album of her Indonesian popular songs.
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Anggun later sold her record company to fund her move to Europe, and moved to London.
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Anggun considered relocating to the Netherlands, but decided to move to France.
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In June 1997, Anggun released her first French-language album, entitled Au nom de la lune, an artistic departure experimenting with world music and adult contemporary sounds.
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Anggun received a nomination for Best New Artist at the 1998 Victoires de la Musique.
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Anggun went on a tour for nine months in the US to promote the album.
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Anggun released a single especially for the Indonesian and Malaysian market, "Yang 'Ku Tunggu", which became a number-one hit in the region.
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For Open Hearts, Anggun worked with two Danish producers, Jesper Winge Leisner and Niels Brinck.
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Anggun left Sony Music in 2003 after its merger with BMG Music.
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Anggun moved to Montreal, Canada where Olivier Maury became her manager.
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In 2004, Anggun returned to Paris and landed a record deal with Heben Music.
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Anggun began working on her next album with producers including Jean-Pierre Taieb and Frederic Jaffre.
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Anggun enlisted the help of French songwriters such as Jean Fauque, Lionel Florence, Tete and Evelyn Kral to adapt her English songs into French.
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In late 2004, Anggun released her first solo French single in nearly four years, "Etre une femme", which became Anggun's second top-20 hit in France and her first French single to chart on the Swiss Singles Chart.
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Anggun was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Minister of Culture for her achievements and support of French culture.
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Anggun was appointed as the ambassadress for a Swiss watch brand, Audemars Piguet.
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Anggun did a duet with Julio Iglesias on a reworked version of "All of You" in Indonesian version for his album Romantic Classics.
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On 25 May 2006, Anggun performed on her sold-out solo concert at the Jakarta Convention Center, entitled Konser Untuk Negeri.
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In September 2006, Anggun performed her song, "Cesse la pluie" at Sopot Music Festival Grand Prix in Sopot, Poland.
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In December 2006, Anggun was named Best International Artist at Anugerah Musik Indonesia for introducing Indonesian music to the international recording industry.
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Anggun released her Best-Of album in Indonesia and Malaysia, which compiled singles during the first decade of her international career.
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Anggun released Best-Of for the Italian market with a different track listing and "I'll Be Alright" as its lead single.
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Anggun became the French-language narrator of BBC nature documentary film Earth, and composed its soundtrack single, "Un jour sur terre".
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Anggun was appointed as the Ambassador of the Micro-environment Prize by the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development and National Geographic Channel.
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In February 2007, Anggun was invited as the guest star on an episode of the fourth season of Star Academy Arab World in Lebanon.
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Anggun returned to another episode of the show's fifth season in the following year.
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Anggun did a duet with Italian singer Roby Facchinetti and his son, Francesco Facchinetti in a song, titled Vivere Normale.
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Anggun covered Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" with Corsican group I Muvrini for their album I Muvrini et les 500 choristes.
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Anggun was featured on the remix version of DJ Laurent Wolf's number-one hit "No Stress" for the deluxe edition of his album Wash My World.
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In 2008, Anggun released her fourth international studio album, Elevation.
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On 6 December 2008, Anggun joined the jury for Miss France 2009.
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Anggun made concerts in Indonesia and toured the cities of Bandung, Yogyakarta, Denpasar, Surabaya and Medan.
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In early 2010, Anggun recorded a duet with Portuguese singer Mickael Carreira on the song "Chama por me ", as well as performing at his concert in Lisbon, Portugal on 26 February 2010.
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Anggun collaborated with German electronica musician Schiller, co-writing and contributing lead vocals to two tracks, "Always You" and "Blind", for his album Atemlos.
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Anggun appeared Schiller's concert series, Atemlos Tour, in 14 cities in Germany during May 2010.
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Anggun did a cameo for 2010 French drama film Ces amours-la directed by Claude Lelouch.
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On this stage, Anggun had won 56 platinum records in 26 countries, from "Snow on the Sahara" to "Echo ".
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Anggun held her second major concert at the Jakarta Convention Center, Konser Kilau Anggun, on 27 November 2011.
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Anggun later appeared for the third time at the Christmas concert in the Vatican.
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Anggun was chosen by France Televisions to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
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Anggun co-wrote the entry, "Echo ", with William Rousseau and Jean-Pierre Pilot.
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Anggun toured more than 15 countries in Europe to promote the song.
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Anggun embarked on a concert tour in several cities across France, Switzerland and New Caledonia, including her sold-out concert in Le Trianon, Paris, on 13 June 2012.
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Anggun joined United Nations campaign, Earth Day: Save the Forest in Italy.
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Anggun toured 10 cities in Germany with Schiller in late 2012.
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Anggun performed at Les Fous Chantants festival in Ales, France.
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In 2013, Anggun served as the international judge for the first season of the Indonesian version of The X Factor, making her the highest-paid judge in Indonesian television history.
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Anggun joined the judging panel of the television special X Factor Around the World on 24 August 2013.
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Anggun did a photoshoot and interview with VOGUE Italia in November 2013.
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On 22 November 2013, she joined French General Manager of PSG Jean-Claude Blanc and Indonesia's ambassador to France Rezlan Ishar Jenie to launch the club official site with Indonesian language for Indonesian Les Parisiens which Anggun was the icon of this site.
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Anggun received the number 10 jersey, PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic's number.
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Anggun was recruited to the judging panel for Syco's franchise, Indonesia's Got Talent in 2014.
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The duo performed the song at the 2014 World Music Awards in Monaco, where Anggun was awarded the World's Best-Selling Indonesian Artist.
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Anggun did a collaboration with a young Dutch DJ Indyana on a song titled "Right Place Right Time".
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In late 2014, Anggun recorded two duets: "Who Wants to Live Forever" with Il Divo for their album A Musical Affair and "Pour une fois" with Vincent Niclo for his album Ce que je suis.
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Anggun released "Fly My Eagle" as soundtrack for the film Pendekar Tongkat Emas.
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On 10 July 2014, Anggun was invited by Air France to perform at Air France Inauguration of Jakarta-Paris Travel Route.
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Anggun performed in Africa twice during 2014, for Roberto Cavalli's Casa Fashion Show in Casablanca, Morocco, and for the 15th annual French-speaking World Summit in Dakar, Senegal.
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Anggun was invited by Pope Francis to attend at a Christmas concert at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi on 25 December 2014.
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Anggun joined the "SK-II's Change Destiny" campaign and became a spokesperson alongside actress Cate Blanchett and Michelle Phan for its event in Los Angeles and she was chosen by SK-II management to be the ambassador of SK-II.
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In 2016, Anggun sat on the panel as judges for SK-II Beauty Bound Indonesia.
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Anggun helped to recor Frozen's "Let It Go" in Indonesian, called "Lepaskan".
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Anggun joined the jury panel for Miss France 2016 on 19 December 2015.
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Anggun being invited to have a role as a columnist and guest radio host on Europe 1 radio show, called Les Pieds dans le plat, by Cyril Hanouna with another French celebrities, such as Valerie Benaim, Jean-Luc Lemoine, Jerome Commandeur, Estelle Denis and Bertrand Chameroy.
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Anggun sang the acoustic version of "Snow on the Sahara".
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Anggun was featured on new-age music group Enigma's eight studio album The Fall of a Rebel Angel, providing lead vocals for three songs, including the lead single "Sadeness ", which is the sequel to the 1990 number-one hit "Sadeness ".
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Kotak invited Anggun to do a duet with them in a song titled "Teka-Teki" in October 2016.
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Anggun joined Belgian-francophone charity show Televie to raise funds to support scientific research in the fight against cancer and leukemia in children and adults.
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Anggun sang her song "Nos vies paralleles" and a duet with Christophe Mae on his song, called "Charly".
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Azerbaijan-Russian singer-songwriter Emin make a duet song with Anggun, called "If You Go Away" for his newest album Love is A Deadly Game.
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Anggun was invited to be a guest performer and did a duet with Lara Fabian at Lara's concert Ma vie dans la tienne Tour 2016 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Anggun was invited by Indonesian television network SCTV as guest performer at Long Live The Biggest Concert Kotak x Anggun feat NAFF on 23 November 2016 in Jakarta.
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Anggun sang "Yang 'Ku Tunggu" as an opening act and "Teka-Teki" as a duet with Kotak.
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Anggun held a "three-dates concert" at Le Cafe de la Danse on December, 1st-3rd 2016.
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Anggun was invited to perform on 24 December 2016 at Christmas concert in Parco della Musica, Rome.
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Anggun sang two Christmas carols as soloist, "The Christmas Song" and, accompanied by flutist Andrea Griminelli, "La Vita e Bella".
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Anggun toured France and Belgium to promote her French album, Toujours un ailleurs, and finalized her performance at Festival international des metiers d'art 2017 in Baccarat, France.
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Anggun returned as a judge on the second season of Asia's Got Talent.
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On 12 October 2017, Anggun released a lyric video for "What We Remember" on YouTube as the first single of her new album "8".
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Anggun released her lead single "What We Remember" in December 2017.
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Anggun sang "Snow on the Sahara" and "What We Remember".
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Anggun performed at Notte Bianca as the main guest star on 23 June 2018.
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Anggun performed at the opening ceremony of the Asian Games 2018 at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium, Central Jakarta, on August 18,2018.
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Anggun sang a song titled "Pemuda", which was popularized by the Indonesian musical group Chaseiro from the album Persembahan which was released in 2001.
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Anggun joined coaching panel for The Voice Indonesia Season 3 alongside Armand Maulana, Titi DJ, and duo Nino Kayam from RAN with Vidi Aldiano.
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Anggun was invited by high-fashion brand COACH to have great visit and did a number of performance for the opening of new branch store in Suria KLCC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Anggun reported her experiences on the show called Noel avec soldats at Port-Bouet army base in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
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In early 2019, Anggun toured cities in Italy, including Milan, Foligno, and Bologna.
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Anggun toured in seven dates for this Intimate Concert Tour.
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Anggun was being invited to perform at the concert and she sang one of numbers from Notre-Dame de Paris musical, "Vivre".
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Anggun performed with David Foster alongside Brian McKnight, Yura Yunita, and several artists during The Hitman: David Foster and Friends concert series at De Tjolomadoe, Central Java, 24 March 2019.
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Anggun was invited to perform at the concert in two different cities, namely in the city of Solo, Central Java and the city of Surabaya, East Java.
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On 28 July 2019, Anggun continued her Italian tour concert at Alpe Adria Arena, Lignano.
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Anggun became a panelist on Mask Singer, reaching nearly 7 million viewers.
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Anggun took a part as Maleen Suthama in television movie drama Coup de foudre a Bangkok.
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Anggun returned as panelist on the second season of Mask Singer alongside her previous colleague panelists.
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In June 2020, RIFFX by Credit Mutuel published the result of a survey, titled "Barometer: Les 100 Artistes Preferes des Francais ", which Anggun listed on number 97.
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Anggun attended The 3rd BraVo International Classical Music Awards on April 2,2021, at Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia.
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Anggun made a performance with virtual image Luciano Pavarotti and sang "Caruso".
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Anggun continued the postponed Italy tour concert, starting in Sassuolo on 11 September 2021 and she visited Palazzo Dulcale.
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Anggun made her appearance as herself in online series called Profession Comedien on episode 48.
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Anggun began shooting television variety show series called les Reines du Shopping speciale Celebrites in September 2021.
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Dany Brillant invited Anggun to did a duet with him on Charles Aznavour's "Desormais".
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Anggun was invited to perform for the Opening Ceremony of 2021 National Paralympic Week at Mandala Stadium in Jayapura, Papua.
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Anggun sang Indonesia's national anthem "Indonesia Raya" alongside 150 Papuan children and her 90's hit "Mimpi", all orchestrated by Indonesian conductor Addie MS.
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Anggun was invited by Vatican to perform at Concerto di Natale: Ventinovesima XXIX Edizione in Auditorium della Conciliazione.
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Anggun participated on comedy-musical theatre show with broadway vibe, Al Capone.
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Anggun accompanied by traditional dancer and gamelan music.
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On 23 September 2022, Anggun joined a project, with Lorenzo Licitra, as a featured artist on the theme song and campaign for the 12th Festival del Cinema Nuovo, the international competition for short films played by disabled people, which was held in Bergamo, Italy.
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Anggun was a supporting artist on the French version of Studytracks app for schoolchildren.
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Anggun started as a rock singer and given nickname as "Lady Rocker" in Indonesia, and was influenced by rock bands such as Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, and Megadeth.
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Anggun, who studied Balinese dance since childhood, uses the traditional art in her performances.
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Anggun stated that most likely to wear high-heels and Louboutin's suits her.
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Anggun was appointed as the spokesperson for the International Year of Microcredit, a United Nations program aimed at eradicating debt in the third world, In 2009, Anggun was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, part of the United Nations.
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Anggun attended Rome Film Festival on the next day and spoke as UN Goodwill Ambassador at TeleFood Campaign Against Hunger in The World.
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Anggun, who has appeared in a French film, promoted one of the campaigns she participated in, namely The One Billion Hungry Project.
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Anggun performed "Snow on the Sahara" at the campaign's concert on 19 September 2010 in New York.
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Anggun got an interview with CNN to talk about this campaign on the same date.
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Anggun supported the MDG Summit in New York on 22 September 2010.
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Anggun wrote her views on several issues, especially in Indonesia, on online platforms Qureta.
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Anggun makes it a requirement to admit religious toleration and insists on a separation of religious faith from the basic regulative principle for the individual:.
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Anggun's second husband was Louis-Olivier Maury was born on March 1972 and whom she met in Canada.
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Anggun gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Kirana Cipta Montana, on 8 November 2007.
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On 16 August 2018 Anggun married for the fourth time in Ubud, Bali with a German musician and photographer, Christian Kretschmar.
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Besides Indonesian, her native language, Anggun is fluent in French and English.
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The robbers stole several luxury items belonging to Anggun, including bags and watches.
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Anggun became the first Indonesian woman to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds in 2016.
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The rose "Anggun" is a derivative of Meibokir variety which has special characteristics.