Exclusive Warmth Of Arda And Tantri's Family, Free Children With Opinions And Work

Tantri, Kara, Andra (Photo: Bambang E Ros, DI: Raga/VOI)

JAKARTA - Arda Naff and Tantri Kotak are musicians who have an active career with their respective bands. But beyond that, they are a compact couple and family that support each other.

This cohesiveness was felt when VOI met the two of them and their child, Karanada. The 7-year-old eldest ventured to release a single titled Main Sama Aku last March.

"When viewed from his journey, Kara herself does have a sound basic that is not general. That's all I saw before," said Tantri talking about Kara's latest project.

Single Main Sama Aku is a song from children sung by Kara and composed by their parents. This song tells the story of a child's desire for his parents to stop playing the device for a moment and play with the child.

At the age that has not stepped on double digits, Kara is brave enough to undergo the process like the singer or mother. Arda explained that their decision to make Kara sing was based on the child's interest in singing.

"If you jump, you have to be given a parachute first. The Parasut is that he sees the readiness of his parents, it turns out that this is hard work, leaving the house, on the backstage, asking for photos of people and he is learning by doing. What we are planting is, but if the career is still too early," explained Arda.

"The important thing is that he is happy first because we don't want him to be forced. He has to be happy and it seems that he wants to sing in front of him (Buna's nickname for Tantri) suddenly sings the former President in front and he just goes up," he continued.

Kara, who was also present on the occasion, also confirmed that her first single started from her habit of seeing people around her often playing cellphones.

"About my friends like playing cellphones with Panda ( Kara's nickname for Arda) and Buna, I keep inviting Panda, Mother and friends, don't play with cellphones all the time. Because my friends like to play cellphones," Kara said honestly.

Arda, who has worked a lot on adult songs, is actually challenged to create children's songs. He feels that there are several things that need to be considered when creating children's songs so that they still sound easy but the lyrics can be felt by children.

"It's hard for me to make children's songs, it's actually difficult because one has to sing along, the second has to relate to them. The child can't be lied to. The song is good, not good, they sing or not, small children, number one is small children. So the best music director is children," explained Arda.

"That's when we heard, it seems like everyone agrees that if we hold a cellphone, it feels like 24 hours until the house knocks on the door. He protested when he played with me, how come he was playing cellphones again even though it was work. Immediately got the lyrics, "Father, please put the cellphone first, let's play with me. It's not changed," he said again.

"As soon as we heard his voice, I saw a slap in the face for us as parents. Wow, it turns out that we are not perfect parents. Indeed, there are no ideal parents, making mistakes and making improvements to each other," said Arda.

Maximum Support For Children's Work

Arda and Tantri not only worked on their own, but were assisted by Lutfi Firmansyah who helped the Box. As a result, Playing Sama I became a catchy child's song with a tickling message but can be felt by all people.

"We maximize the existing technology so even though the results are simple. The results are possible for some people why should it be like this, if we only have enough taste to arrive or not. In this song he sings appropriately for the age of children," said Tantri Syalintri.

"After that, we also asked Johan's son, the photographer for the Next Top Model model, Waduh Motoin Kara, so we were really blessed with friends who wanted to help. To make video clips, we finally asked for help from friends we know and Alhamdulillah they support," he said.

Kara feels happy to have her own song. He did not deny that he wanted to be a singer, following the Tantri route, which is active as the vocalist of the band Kotak.

"I'm really happy. Because I've always wanted to be a singer. Because I see Panda, Mother is like that. I just want to be an artist," said Kara.

For Arda and Tantri, they try to be parents who are always there for their children. Busyness as musicians who often move from one stage to another makes them have to sacrifice each other.

"We are committed together to this in charge of caring for it, not ladies and gentlemen, but both of them. So back up each other. If we have a schedule, we want to be with each other. But for me personally, Tantri is more dominant, an extraordinary mother," said Arda.

"The presence of his parents is something that strengthens, women can be an example of patience for children, men become leaders, so they are mutual," added Tantri.

"If we can arrange together, for example, I perform, he has activities in Jakarta and vice versa, so he complements each other in everyday life. Right again, there are activities, one of which is as much as possible, they will be backed up as much as possible," he continued.

Ahead of the 20th anniversary of marriage, Arda and Tantri are committed to teaching religion, character, and independence. They want their children, namely Kara and Arka, to develop into happy children.

Hopefully the song Kara Yang Main Sama Aku is happy with the work and useful, especially since the song can make children happy. Yesterday, I was very happy on Instagram. Reels was trending even though it wasn't trending number one, but the prize was not a number, but the children sang the song on social media," said Arda.

The song "Play Sama Aku from Karanada" can be listened to digitally.