Seeing The Potential For Regional Language Pop Music In The National Music Candidate

Kadri The Singing Lawyer (Instagram @thekadrimohamad)

JAKARTA - Indonesia, with all its cultural wealth, has a very diverse type of music. If you talk about 'pop' music, then there are several different types of music that can be referred to.

Not only pop music is carried by bands or singers such as Bernadya, Juicy Luicy, Lyodra, Sheila on 7, Kahitna, or Ruth Sahanaya. Indonesian music also recognizes regional pop music, such as pop Minang, pop Java, pop Sundanese pop, pop Minang, pop Batak, and many more.

Looking back at Indonesia's musical wealth, Kadri Mohamad, who recently released a rearrangement of "Barek Solok" said that regional pop music also has great potential.

"Regional language songs, automatically he already has his own market. And he has the opportunity to also compete with Indonesian pop," said Kadri when contacted recently.

The new arrangement presented by Kadri through 'Barek Solok' is an attempt to introduce Minang pop music, which is currently widely played with the concept of a single organ, becoming more relevant to young people and wider listeners.

"That's why in the concept of "Barek Solok" which I recorded, I did give a more modern touch, both musically, in style, even in style I dressed up and sang. So that's mixed," said the man who was nicknamed The Singing Lawyer.

"So that regional music also has the opportunity to be calculated in the national music arena," he concluded.