'Glenn Fredly: 25 Years Of Music', Music Concert Celebrates 25 Years Of The Maestro's Work

Fans placed flowers in front of the mural of late singer Glenn Fredly at the "Love on White Day" event at M Bloc, Jakarta, last year. (Photo via ANTARA PHOTO/Rivan Awal Lingga)

JAKARTA - A music concert will be held to commemorate the late Glenn Fredly. This concert is to celebrate 25 years of the musician's work.

This concert was held by Premier Live Productions and the company founded by Glenn Fredly, namely Bumi Entertainment.

The concert titled "Glenn Fredly: 25 Years of Music" will be held on June 24, 2023, at the Beach City International Stadium, Ancol, North Jakarta with a capacity of more than 10,000 people.

"We all miss the late Glenn Fredly, seeing and hearing his work directly on stage will certainly be an extraordinary longing meeting place," Ryan Novianto, as the initiator of the celebration of Glenn Fredly: 25 Years of Music and also COO from Premier Live Productions in his statement, as reported by Antara, Saturday, March 4.

Ryan said the concert was a manifestation of his plans and the "January" singer shortly before he died in 2020.

Interestingly, the concert will feature Glenn Fredly in a hologram technology. In addition, to treat the longing of the fans who won the AMI Lifetime Achieven Award in 2022, artificial intelligence and computer-generated imagery were also used to present their figures.

"Although Bung Glenn is gone, using technological sophistication and collaborating with the concepts of the Bumi Entertainment team and the Premier Live Productions team, it also arrived in time to translate the discussion into a grand celebration," Ryan said.

"The plan is for concerts to involve Indonesian musicians across generations who will pay their respects in the form of appearances in tribute sessions, and of course there will be a special session of Glenn Fredly's return in the form of holographic performance in its entirety," said Ryan.

Meanwhile, Mozes Latuihamallo, Glenn Fredly's younger brother who is a representative from Bumi Entertainment, said he was happy that the concert was finally ready to be held after months of planning.

"It feels good that we can finally share this good news, we want to show that Glenn Fredly's spirit is still there and will return to his friends and fans," he said.

Glenn Fredly is a singer of legendary love songs such as 'January', 'Only This Once', 'Akhir Cerita Cinta', 'Green White' and dozens of love songs that have accompanied Indonesian music lovers for 25 years since 1995 until finally the maestro left us with his beautiful works in 2020.

Glenn Fredly died at the age of 44 in April 2020 at Setia Mitra Hospital, Jakarta, due to inflammation of the brain membrane or meningitis. He left a wife Mutia Ayu and a daughter Gewa Atlana who at that time was only 40 days old.