It was five of us went to the concert : our big sister Johana, Sist Linda, Ka Igor, Febri and I. Those three are my announcer fellas (Sist Johana, Ka igor and Febri, although Febri is still on his training, I assume he's going to be there soon.. *wink ) and sist Linda from marketing. We drove from Bogor approximately at 6.20 pm and just arrived around 8.
It was crowded, many people watched the concert from a very wide range of age. I saw children, young adults, adults and very adults people watched. :D Mostly they're watching with their family.
The concert started at 9 pm. David Foster opened the concert cheerfully. With the formal suit, he looked very professional. He did give intro to the audience telling us how he was so happy to be in Indonesia for the fourth time. And so on and so on. Then he welcomed Hayley Westenra as the opening singer. She looked all beautiful. Her make up, her hair, her dress and her voice was stunning. Absolutely gorgeous. She sang two songs.
I don't even know what songs she sang, but they were beautifully sang. :D
Then one by one, David introduced us to his friends who performed that night. From a Puerto Rican singer named Anthony or is it Mario? I don't quite remember.. Then there was Dirty Loops, a Swedish indie record band. They're pretty cool, there are three of them, I personally had a slight crush to the drummer. He's cute. :P And then Paul Young, Kenny "BabyFace" Edmonds, with his sexy RnB voice, and finally the most sensational, the fire on that night, The one and only Chaka Kan!
And Raisa, the Indonesian soloist sang Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing. It was quite surprising that Raisa sang there. Even David said he only met Raisa two days ago. I think it must be at the charity show. He commented that Raisa has a soft beautiful voice. But she looked very nervous at first, even she said she needed the audience to cheer her up since she's so nervous. But she sang beautifully eventhough I heard some fals note. Well, Raisa's a human too right??
What I really like from the show was that David apparently has a very good sense of humor. :D
Seriously. He made some clever jokes with his friends who performed that night. And the most funny thing is the Pri Project. It was this old guy named Priyono at the front seat. Earlier on the show David came to him and asked why Pri has such a grim expression, like he didn't enjoy the show at all. Then David said to the audience it was his job, their job to made Pri happy that night.
Along the show, David hold his words, he put so much effort to made Pri happy. Even Babyface and Chaka Khan said they would sing to entertain Pri. :D Oh Snap! David challenge Babyface to created a song right there at that moment, to entertain P{ri/ with three keywords from the audience. It was rainbow, Pri and.. I didn't remember the last word. But he DID it! I don't know whether it was already set up or not, but if it wasn't set up, Babyface did a great job! babyface has a good sense of humor too, he swiped David's grand piano everytime he finished a song.. :D
And.. CHaka Khan...!! She was unbelievable! She brought a chinese fan. a black big one. She kept fanning her neck when she sang. And it was funny and awesome. I mean she could manage her voice while she was doing that. And she sang perfectly, beautifully. Like I said, unbelievable.
Back to David again. It was obvious that David has many experiences dealing with audience. He did interact very well with the audience. He praised the audience so much. He said Indonesian people were smart. He tested us with some of his songs and we were all could follow.. we literally beat him.. :D then he invited anyone who really could sing to performed in front of him. All sang beautifully. But the weird thing was mostly of them were actually had met him before. I don't know whether it was already set up or not. *shrug
Over all.. It was very entertaining. I'm happy we were having a good time together.. :))
