Artist Info

 

White Shoes & The Couples Company

    Genre : Pop

    Performances :
    Saturday August 8, 2009
    TEBS STAGE

    Website :
    www.myspace.com/whiteshoesandthecouplescompany


  

About This Act :

In August 2002, in an art institute at Cikini, central Jakarta, two lover from the fine art faculty Rio & Sari decided to form a band together with their fellow in the faculty named Saleh. This was the first formation of White Shoes & The Couples Company, which features Sari in vocal & violin, Rio on rhythm guitar and Saleh on melody guitar. The three of them made their first debut in this formation in a college event. However, the trio formation diverged from their original plan where actually Sari and Rio had keenly asked a married couple from the music faculty to join the band the couples was Ricky Surya Virgana & Mela Virgana. Yet the couple was hard to meet since they were busy lecturing and covering for orchestras. Several months later, the couple join White Shoes & The Couples Company with Ricky on Bass and cello and Mela on viola, keyboards and piano. White Shoes & The Couples Company recorded their debut album comprising 11 songs under Aksara Records, an indie records label that based in Jakarta. On August 2005, this album was launched by Aksara Records and distributed by Universal Music Indonesia in Indonesia. The album has sold over 15,000 copies, and it’s a major step for an indie band. In the same year, White Shoes & The Couples Company has contributed one song in Original Movie Soundtrack "Janji Joni" produced by Kalyana Shira Films. The movie was a big hit in Indonesian Cinemas, and also the single from the band, titled "Senandung Maaf", becoming a high rotation in every radio in Indonesia. Following this success, in 2006, White Shoes & The Couples Company join another production from Kalyana Shira Films in a movie "Berbagi Suami".