.poetristephanie hopes to make people happy & raise them up through her music
Poetri admits she doesn’t have a lot of firsthand experience with love since she's still pretty young, but that’s okay: her music is about telling stories, inspired from her father’s love of country music. Hailing from Texas, her father, a music teacher, once spent a train ride in the U.S. to introduce her to writing songs of the genre and emphasized its narrative structures.
“At first, I didn't really want to be a musician because, like, how am I going to help people? Maybe right now I'm not necessarily helping that many people but I’ve listened to songs that helped me go through really bad days. Sometimes songs can help people the same way psychology does, even though it's not like that much but it gets people through their days which is really nice.”
Though she was setting out to pursue higher ed, in between graduating from an Indonesian international high school in May 2018 and when she was expected to begin college, Poetri focused her attention on music and saw interest in what she was doing, and it led to “I Love You 3000." She has since signed with 88rising, where she’s one of the only pop singers signed to the Asian-oriented brand, which primarily features a roster full of hip-hop and R&B artists.
Though she’s new on the scene, Stephanie Poetri has been surrounded by music her entire life: her mother is Indonesian pop diva Titi DJ. Because of growing up with the spotlight shining on their family, Poetri never thought trying her hand at fame would be for her. “I grew up in the limelight, I kind of wanted to try to grow up not being there. And then one day, I was like, ‘You know what, you have one life. I want to do as much good in the world as I can.
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