22 Facts About Pinkan Mambo

Pinkan Mambo achieved success as the vocalist in the Indonesian music duo Ratu between 2000 and 2004, then continued her career as a soloist.

Pinkan Mambo then began a solo career with Sony BMG, releasing three solo albums as of 2012.

Pinkan Mambo acted in one film, Selimut Berdarah, in 2010.

Onstage Pinkan Mambo is known as an energetic performer who often includes her audience in her act.

Pinkan Mambo was the eldest, and only girl, of three children born to the couple.

Not long afterwards, Pinkan Mambo was sent to live with her grandmother because her mother, who received custody, could not afford to send Pinkan Mambo to school.

Life with her grandmother was strict and, as Pinkan Mambo felt depressed without her father, she became withdrawn, sticking to a daily routine of prayers and studying.

Pinkan Mambo later became more outgoing and was known among her family and friends as a very feminine child, enjoying dresses and make-up.

Pinkan Mambo's mother, believing that Mambo had the ability to be a professional singer, convinced Mambo to try and sing in public while the latter was still in junior high school.

Pinkan Mambo began her studies at Cendrawasih Senior High School in Cilandak, South Jakarta, in 1997.

In 1998, while visiting a friend at Amigos Cafe, where she worked, Pinkan Mambo was asked to sing and later booked as a singer at the cafe; her mother supported the decision.

Pinkan Mambo changed venues often, telling the entertainment magazine Tabloid Nova that within a year she had sung at almost every cafe in the city.

Pinkan Mambo convinced Dhani to hire her by calling "at all hours of the day" after meeting him while at a cafe in Pondok Indah Mall in South Jakarta; she had chosen to seek out Dhani because of his previous experience with new singers, including Reza Artamevi, and had heard that he frequented the mall.

Pinkan Mambo was officially replaced on 7 April 2005 by Mulan Jameela, a cafe singer from Bandung who took the stage name Mulan Kwok.

Pinkan Mambo had long nurtured a desire to become a solo singer.

Pinkan Mambo released her second album, Wanita Terindah, on 2 July 2008.

Pinkan Mambo acted in the 2010 film Selimut Berdarah, playing a young woman who unknowingly sends her younger sister to an organ harvesting ring.

Since leaving Ratu, Pinkan Mambo has successfully distanced herself from her coquettish, ultra-feminine look.

Pinkan Mambo's 2004 pregnancy led to her cancelling her wedding to Meiza Reza Tobroni, as the father of her unborn child was another man.

That year Pinkan Mambo's cousin introduced her to a classmate named Sandy Sanjaya.

Pinkan Mambo was romantically involved with the association football player Febrianto Wijaya, and they considered marrying.

The relationship fell through, and in 2013 Pinkan Mambo who has converted to Evangelist with her two children married Steve Wantania, a music-video maker in the United States.