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    Oma Irama formed Orkes Melayu Soneta in 1970, which became Indonesia's first dangdut group. Their 1973 album "Begadang" featured Oma Irama on vocals and electric guitar and helped establish the new dangdut musical style, combining Western rock influences with Malay and Indian styles. Oma Irama's 1973 hit "Terajana" was one of the earliest and most famous dangdut songs, distinguishing the new electrified dangdut style from the traditional Orkes Melayu. After Soneta's success in the early 1970s, Oma changed his stage name to Rhoma and had a successful career producing hit records and films throughout the following decade, adopting elements of

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    Oma Irama formed Orkes Melayu Soneta in 1970, which became Indonesia's first dangdut group. Their 1973 album "Begadang" featured Oma Irama on vocals and electric guitar and helped establish the new dangdut musical style, combining Western rock influences with Malay and Indian styles. Oma Irama's 1973 hit "Terajana" was one of the earliest and most famous dangdut songs, distinguishing the new electrified dangdut style from the traditional Orkes Melayu. After Soneta's success in the early 1970s, Oma changed his stage name to Rhoma and had a successful career producing hit records and films throughout the following decade, adopting elements of

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    Oma Irama formed Orkes Melayu Soneta in 1970, which became Indonesia's first dangdut group. Their 1973 album "Begadang" featured Oma Irama on vocals and electric guitar and helped establish the new dangdut musical style, combining Western rock influences with Malay and Indian styles. Oma Irama's 1973 hit "Terajana" was one of the earliest and most famous dangdut songs, distinguishing the new electrified dangdut style from the traditional Orkes Melayu. After Soneta's success in the early 1970s, Oma changed his stage name to Rhoma and had a successful career producing hit records and films throughout the following decade, adopting elements of

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    Once Oma broke from recording with the Purnama Group, he formed Orkes Melayu Soneta (taken

    from English word sonnet), which became the first dangdut group in 1970. The subtitle, the sound of
    Moslems was added in 1973.
    The group featured Oma Irama and Elvy Sukaesih as singers, both solo, and duets. Their first
    album, Volume 01, Begadang ("Stay up all night"), released in 1973, featured four songs by Oma
    Irama, three by Elvy, and three duets. The song featured a topless Oma Irama wearing tight trousers
    and holding an electric guitar. His choice of pose showed the influence on his music of Western
    bands, influences which also found their way into his music – Orkes Melayu was in his opinion was
    too soft, too acoustic, too polite, and unable to compete against the power and energy of rock music,
    and so the music was electrified, with keyboard, two electric guitars, electric bass, as well as the
    traditional suling and gendang. He has stated that he took his guitar style from Ritchie
    Blackmore of Deep Purple. In addition to Western and Malay influences, Hindi composers were
    credited for some of the band's songs.
    The Begadang album ranked #11 on Rolling Stone Indonesia's "150 Greatest Indonesian Albums of
    All Time" list.[5] Furthermore, the main single "Begadang" reached at number 24 on the magazine's
    "150 Greatest Indonesian Songs of All Time" list.[6]
    His 1973 hit "Terajana", one of the best-known dangdut songs of all time, was the first to use the
    newly coined, and arguably derogatory, term dangdut, distinguishing the Javanese Orkes Melayu
    music, heavily influenced by Indian Bollywood records, henceforth dangdut, from the established
    Orkes Melayu, associated with North Sumatran Malays.
    Once Soneta was established in the early 1970s, Oma changed his name to Rhoma and went on a
    decade long run of successful hit records and films, all of which starred Rhoma playing himself while
    performing all of his hits. He wrote the classics "Kereta Malam" (night train) and "Kuda Lumping"
    which were sung by Elvy Sukaesih.
    Performing live, he adopted many of the props of stadium rock, including large audiences, powerful
    soundsystems, complex sets, fireworks, flashing lights, and smoke machines. He is also notable with
    the use of some notable musical instrument including various models of Steinberger guitars. This
    particular guitar was shown off in his posters, leaflets, movies, and pin-ups.

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