The Story Of Once Before Dewa 19: Recruited I Worked At Project World Bank, Dollar Salary

Once Mekel (Instagram @once_mekel)

JAKARTA - Once Mekel told of the beginning of himself joining Dewa 19. The singer of Kucinta Kau Apa It is at the same time straightening out the circulating history that he is not a cafe singer.

This was conveyed through a video upload on Kadri Mohamad's Instagram account, which turned out to be involved in the story.

"This is history.... The same thing I conveyed to Dhanny," Kadri opened his statement.

"Once it's not a cafe singer, he's just playing at the Classic Rock Blok M (circa 98-99) cafe like I'm also an office but playing there is fun to go home to Krisna kibor's nemenin office, both Brawijaya bands are already on hiatus. Once again working at a foreign consultant LIPPI after his voice broke," he explained.

"I was at the HKP lawfirm. I saw Dhanny coming on the volvo to watch and after we played, then Dhanny came on stage saying Once passed the audition with applause. We were in the band having fun when we joined Dewa, even though it was on our stage, "he continued.

"Indeed, the route is Once to become a singer. Hopefully in peace... live a good profession..," he concluded.

As the Makara vocalist said, Once said in the video he was an employee who only liked to sing when he came home from the office.

"I'm working on it, I'm not a cafe singer. Where is the news. So, I was working on a world bank project and got a good salary, in dollars. Because I got enough money, I thought I made a good song. So, use my salary for recording, "said Once.

"When I come home from work I like to rent a studio. Well, every Wednesday I go to Blok M area with my lawyer friend, Kadri. We like to come to one cafe, we sing there, right. That's where I was asked to be the vocalist of Dewa 19 replacing Ari Lasso who had problems. Because they also came to the cafe," he added.