Mr. Gesang (the creator of "Bengawan Solo")

Have u heard bout this man? Mr. Gesang, he is the creator of the world famous "Bengawan Solo" song.. quite a lot old Japanese people admire him. maybe its because he was sooooo famous around 1940, so that time Japan still in Indonesia. hahahaha, and I don’t have a clue where I get the idea from, I just visit him in his house today.. No occasion, just free to be me ;)

At first in the morning I was looking in Palur, but when the time am arrive, people said he was moved to down town, which is in Singosaren. So few hours later after we finish take lunch and go to durian farm (hahahahaha, still have time to visit my fav king fruit) we going back to down town and looking for his house. I just visit around half hour, just small talks and ask for photograph and autograph ;p hehehehe..

my durian (soooo da super big huh? hehehe)
i snap this pix last January (or Feb)



only one seed @@ waaaaaaaaa~


house of Mr. Gesang now (Singosaren)


some pixz of Mr. Gesang and his awards from all over the world~









and this is the autograph CD ^^


GESANG
Brief Biography

He was born on first of October 1917 as the youngest from 5 brothers and sisters named Sutardi, and then changed to be Gesang. His mother died when he was 5 and he only got education until 5th grade of elementary on Ongko Loro Public School. He began his music career as the vocalist in MARKO (Marsudi Agawe Rukun Kesenian dan Olah Raga) in 1935. Not just singing, this Bung Karno admirer also writes a lot of songs; among others are “Dunia Berdamai” with patriotic, “Jembatan Merah” and “Saputangan” which has a memory dedicated to a beautiful singer-dance lady.

He got married on August 1941, but divorced 22 years later with no child. In 1940 when he was dreaming in river bank, there came a masterpiece “Bengawan Solo” which then became very famous throughout the world and make Indonesia and especially Solo be proud of. Therefore he was presented a house in Palur by the Central Java’s Government who’s Soepardjo Roestam as the governor at the time. But on 2002 he moved to down town; Singosaren, to the manor he has.

In February 1980 he was invited to officially declared Gesang Fund Association in Japan which was formed by people whose are admire and fond of his song. And he was invited to Japan forth times, not stop right there, he was invited to many countries around Asia and Europe few times. Though he’s not young anymore (91 years old), but few years back, still there is a lot of invitation to perform and even to record his voice, his name and songs are worldwide famous, but he still the same old simple Gesang, who choose to live in peaceful house in Singosaren, and spend his time with his nephew and grandchild.