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View all search resultsWhen the music’s over: Pop stars take on day jobs
The Jakarta Post talks to pop and rock stars who have sidelined their music for traditional careers
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Perhaps once you’ve mingled with the stars, it’s only right to speak so much of divine intervention. For there really was a time when Ramah Handoko’s reality exceeded even his wildest dreams.
In 2004, his band, Seurieus, was on top of the world. The rock band toured the country, played to adoring crowds of tens of thousands and lifted themselves out of lower-middle class monotony. They flew perilously close to the sun. And then, of course, there was the fall.
“I think it was God’s way of pulling me out of that life,” the 46-year-old said. “It was His way of molding me into a more responsible person.”
