The track takes Poetri’s love for classic singer-songwriter fare (an acoustic guitar, thoughtfully placed lyrics, her melodic voice) and puts a pop spin on it-think Olivia Rodrigo without the heavy drums. She’s signed to the label and Asian music collective 88 Rising, and today, will release her latest song “Picture Myself”-one single off her upcoming EP, which is slated to drop in March. “I was like, I’ll never do music.”īut her curiosity and natural inclinations prevailed, and Poetri is now fully ensconced in the music industry. “Ever since I was born, pretty much, people expected me to do something in music, but I wanted to be rebellious,” Poetri says. Her father-whom she tells me over Zoom from her current apartment in Los Angeles, is from “Texas,” in a Matthew McConaughey-esque drawl-was a music teacher who bestowed upon her everything she knows now about “the art of music.” And her mother, known by her stage name of Titi DJ, is the equivalent of Southeast Asian pop royalty: she’s had a flourishing music career since the 1990s, and recently was a host on Indonesian Idol and The Voice Indonesia. Poetri, 21, originally hails from Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was raised in a musical family. It took three years, a viral hit, collaborating with K-pop legend Jackson Wang, and a global pandemic for the musician Stephanie Poetri to realize she’s had the recipe for her own success all along.
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