Reda Gaudiamo

About

Reda Gaudiamo is an Indonesian author and musician. Her birthplace was Surabaya in East Java. She formed a duo with Ari Malibu in 1982 called AriReda. At first they played covers of songs by John Denver and Simon and Garfunkel, then they released albums in which they set the poetry of Sapardi Djoko Damono to music. The project ended with the death of Malibu in 2018. She later told Kompas that the internet had helped their music to spread amongst young people.