

Yuni Shara has built a career on the ballads of times past, harnessing their old school emotion and updating them with a fresh, new voice. Her choice of songs—lovelorn keroncong numbers—appealed to her audience's sense of nostalgia and shot her into fame quickly, though she soon sought to bring her own material into the mix. Taking a page from her younger sister, pop superstar Krisdayanti, Shara's newer tracks harness the charisma of the classics and translate it into modern-day pop gold.