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Artist
Ginda Bestari
4+ albums
souljazzbluesfunk
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Synopsis Ginda Bestari (born 20th October 1986) is an Indonesian guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and session musician. His style of playing the guitar is smooth, soulful and sophisticated. His debut album titled “Soulful Desire” (2015) is mainly blues, with some jazz, funk, soul and rock ‘n’ roll. He works and is supported with the best musicians Indonesia has to offer like Yance Manusama (Bass), Rayendra Sunito (Drum) and Harry Anggoman (Hammond Organ, Rhodes, Piano). The album was produced by none other then Rayendra Sunito. Early Life Ginda was born in Jakarta, grew up in Sukabumi and is currently living in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. His talent for music has been a gift from God to him simply because there had been no musical talent running in his family prior to his. His passion for playing guitar started during his high school years. He began by playing famous songs from Iwan Fals and Slank. While seriously pursuing to learn the electric guitar his mainstream music was listening to hard rock such as Mr. Big and Extreme. Only after he was given and listened to a cassette of Gary Moore given by his aunt, his interest in blues was triggered. Since then he listens to electric blues played by artists such as BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Winter. Influences Ginda Bestari’s style of playing the guitar is smooth, soulful and sophisticated. Mostly influenced by famous blues jazz guitarists such as Robben Ford, Matt Schofield and
