{"id":357,"date":"2012-02-28T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/meet-indonesias-biggest-pop-star-rossa\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:15:06","slug":"meet-indonesias-biggest-pop-star-rossa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/meet-indonesias-biggest-pop-star-rossa\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Indonesia\u2019s Biggest Pop Star: Rossa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Globalgrind America<\/strong> : Think of any huge pop star in America:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ioneglobalgrind.wordpress.com\/tag\/Beyonce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyonce<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ioneglobalgrind.wordpress.com\/tag\/Lady-Gaga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lady Gaga<\/a><\/strong>, or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ioneglobalgrind.wordpress.com\/tag\/Katy-Perry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katy Perry<\/a><\/strong>, and Rossa is just as popular, if not more in her country. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ioneglobalgrind.wordpress.com\/tag\/Rossa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rossa<\/a><\/strong> is Indonesia\u2019s biggest pop star. She\u2019s beautiful and petite, but don\u2019t get it twisted, Rossa\u2019s voice is bigger than life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1087 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/foto_rossa_konser_harmoni-176x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"668\" \/>Like most international artists, Rossa is ready to move on from being Indonesia\u2019s national icon to become the next face of American music. GlobalGrind sat down with Rossa to discuss her <em>The Best Of<\/em> album, celebrity in Indonesia, and making it in America.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our exclusive interview below!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some of your musical inspirations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rossa:<\/strong> I\u2019m really into the pop scene. I like Jennifer Lopez, some music from Rihanna, even though she sings more R&amp;B, but I love the way she sings. I like Katy Perry too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the music industry differ in Indonesia from here in America?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actually it\u2019s quite the same because artists like Justin Bieber are always sold out. They listen to American music, and the local artists sing Indonesian songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So how long have you been famous, where you can\u2019t walk the streets by yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My career really kicked off in 2000.\u00a0Yeah, I had a concert in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Singapore was October 2011, and a year before I had a concert in Malaysia. The wife of the Prime Minister was my guest of honor, and the concert had 12,000 people. The stadium was big.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who would you compare yourself to? Are you like the Beyonc\u00e9 of Indonesia or maybe Rihanna?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know! Probably\u00a0Adele, because she does ballad songs more than upbeat songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it better for an Indonesian artist to sing in English?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we want to sell in Indonesia, we probably have to stick to the Indonesian language, but I want to step out further because my records are released in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore for those Asians who speak Bahasa. I think English songs would be better in the future because I want to expand to the Philippines and Thailand. English is real easy to absorb. You can find common ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you plan on making a complete transition to English material?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those collaborations and associations are exactly what we\u2019re trying to do. We\u2019re open for anything, but if we still want to sell in Asia, basically Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, I can probably mix English with Bahasa and Indonesian culture because that would be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globalgrind America : Think of any huge pop star in America:\u00a0Beyonce, Lady Gaga, or Katy Perry, and Rossa is just as popular, if not more in her country. Rossa is Indonesia\u2019s biggest pop star. She\u2019s beautiful and petite, but don\u2019t get it twisted, Rossa\u2019s voice is bigger than life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossaofficial.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}