Andi Meriem Matalatta
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Andì Meriem Matalatta was an Indonesia
n pop singer
known for hits, especially during the 1980s. She was nicknamed "The Pearl from the South" among Indonesians.
She was born on August 31, 1957, in Makassar
, Sulawesi
, Indonesia, as the fifth of six children. She had one daughter, Diana, with her first husband, Andi Hermien Matallata. She later remarried to her second husband, Hendra Pribadi.
Andì Meriem Matalatta died at a hospital in Zoetermeer
, the Netherlands
, of complications of multiple illnesses, including diabetes, on June 4, 2010, at the age of 53. She had been visiting the Netherlands with her daughter, Diana. She had been suffering from a gangrenous wound on her hand and hypertension.
Her body was flown back to Indonesia for her funeral.
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n pop singer
Pop Singer
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known for hits, especially during the 1980s. She was nicknamed "The Pearl from the South" among Indonesians.
She was born on August 31, 1957, in Makassar
Makassar
Makassar, is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island. From 1971 to 1999, the city was named Ujung Pandang, after a precolonial fort in the city, and the two names are often used interchangeably...
, Sulawesi
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
, Indonesia, as the fifth of six children. She had one daughter, Diana, with her first husband, Andi Hermien Matallata. She later remarried to her second husband, Hendra Pribadi.
Andì Meriem Matalatta died at a hospital in Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 37.06 km² . A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950...
, the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, of complications of multiple illnesses, including diabetes, on June 4, 2010, at the age of 53. She had been visiting the Netherlands with her daughter, Diana. She had been suffering from a gangrenous wound on her hand and hypertension.
Her body was flown back to Indonesia for her funeral.