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The Beatles “Greatest Dad”

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By Samarthya Priyahita (Thanks!!) “The Tielman Brothers were the first Dutch-Indonesian band that successfully went international in the 1950s.” (Wikipedia) They were gifted and were given lots of supports from Dutch people in Netherlands. They were known most in Europe than in Indonesia, because of their existence in performing more active in Europe and had gone famous [...]

Globalized i-Tunes (Indonesian Tunes)

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Looking back in 1950s, long before The Beatles and the Rolling Stones got famous, there was a band named The Tielman Brothers, the first Dutch-Indonesian band that successfully went international. Their music was called Indorock, a fusion of Indonesian and Western music, and had roots in Keroncong. There were 44 singles launched from 1959 to [...]