10 Legendary Facts Of Blues Gideon Tengker, Nagita Slavina's Father

Gideon LJ Tengker (Photo: Riki Noviana)

JAKARTA - The name Gideon Tengker has re-emerged recently. Not because he released a new song, but because of his divorce from Rieta Amalia 10 years ago which was still rolling like a snowball. Gideon sued Rieta regarding Gono's assets.

However, we will not go too far to discuss this case. The reason is, discussing the music side of Nagita Slavina's biological father is much more interesting. Yes, the blues rock guitarist senior in the country born in Manado, North Sulawesi is a legendary figure who influenced guitarists in the next era.

Om Dion, as he called, currently lives in Tugu Selatan Village, Cisarua District, Bogor and is only accompanied by his pet dogs.

Throughout his musical career, this long and white-haired man has given birth to several albums and has been involved in a number of projects by several Indonesian musicians.

Here are 10 facts about the man whose full name is Gideon Louis Joan Tengker who is summarized by VOI directly from the legend.

1. Witnesses live in Led Zeppelin concerts, Grandfunk Railroad and BloodWEat And Tears while still studying in London, England, in the early 70s.

2. Release three albums (black clips) with his band; Drakhma, namely Hari Esok (1980), Citra Bahagia (1982), and No Kusadari (1984). Apart from Gideon in the guitar position, this band is also manned by Dani Mamesah (drumer), Dodo Zakaria (piano, keyboard), Rudy Gagola (bass), and Ricky Basuki (vocals).

3. guitar solo filler in the song Tua Tua Keladi (Anggun C. Sasmi) who resided in the compilation album Atlantic Records released in 1990.

4. Released the album of Drakhma's best song collection with the addition of two new songs in the early 90s. There was the idea that this album would be re-released in a disk format. But, until now, this project has stalled.

5. Awang-Awang solo filler on Iwan Fals' song on the 1994 release of Crazy People album.

6. There are many guitar teachers who are Indonesian guitarists. One of them, Andry Muhammad (formerly named Andry Franzzy), former personnel of Powerslaves, Boomerang, and Mahadewa.

7. Released a spiritual single titled Jesus via YouTube in February 2014.

8. "Groove or die", is a musical slogan from Gideon LJ Tengker. For him,▁sekarangve is one of the important things in playing music

9. Rick Hannes' local guitar brand ambassador in May 2015 and holds his own signature series, Rick Hannes GT Series.

10. Creating D-A-D-D-A guitar tuning to make it more practical when playing ethnic tones (Sundanese, Java, Bali) and blues pentatonic.