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View all search resultsDJ Dipha Barus: Imbuing music with life, life with music
As befitting a musical Midas, every song he releases becomes all the rage. But unlike the mythical Greek king, Dipha's prowess derives from his passion to understand life and his belief in humankind.
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t could be the way Dipha Barus introduces himself as “fully human” that has made him an antithesis to the “young and famous”stereotype: He is someone who lives according to the deeper meaning of “you only live once”.
But there is, of course, much more to the Indonesian DJ and music producer.
He has a vast curiosity for anything happening under the sun. From fashion to architecture, from the emerging field of epigenetics to traditional medicine, as well as all the trades involved in making and producing music, he finds all this and more intriguing.
“I just looked up on YouTube the health benefits of coconut this morning and I found a post on the benefits of bathing in yellow coconut water. So, I just tried [that] earlier,” Dipha said in a recent video interview with The Jakarta Post.
This seems to indicate that Dipha does his research and then tries it right away, instead of lounging around just thinking about something that has captured his interest.
Living away from the urban hustle and bustle in Bali with his wife Vanessa Budihardja, as well as a pet cat, the winner since 2016 of Indonesia’s top music award, Anugerah Musik Indonesia (AMI), and the holder of the “DJ of the Year” title in 2014 and 2018 has kept himself busy with a digital audio workstation at home.
