Dira Sugandi

DIRA is now being considered as one of the well-established singers in Indonesia. She is known for her powerful and soulful voice yet she has got a nice airy voice to compliments her style of singing. She sings within the genre of jazz, soul and RnB. Her biggest influences in singing are Billie Holiday, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Stevie Wonder, Lalah Hathaway, Beyonce and Yolanda Adams. She also has a bachelor degree in music majoring vocal performance.She also received vocal training from Margareta Svensson Riggs and her husband, the legendary singing coach, Seth Riggs who trained some of the top superstars such as Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole and Ray Charles. Nowadays you would easily find her face on tv, magazines, and newspapers. She is also expanding her career in acting as she has played in two local movies and a musical playbased on the best-selling novel that had won the prize for general fiction from the New York Book Festival, ‘The Rainbow Troops’. She performs regularly at some of the biggest jazz festivals in Indonesia and also events that is held by the President at the Merdeka Palace. In 2017 and 2018 Dira also Contribute as featured singer in Hitman: David Foster&Friends Asian Tour.