Singapore musician Rangga Jones' fans include K-pop star Ruka | Music Lab podcast

In this episode of Music Lab, ST's music correspondent Eddino Abdul Hadi hosts home-grown singer, songwriter, and producer Rangga Jones.

He might not be a household name in Singapore, but in recent years, the 27-year-old has been steadily building up a fanbase in the region with his R&B/pop songs.

On streaming services, the Singapore-based singer has racked up millions of plays, mostly from fans in the Philippines and Indonesia, where he was born. Call Me, a song first released in 2022, has 23 million streams on just Spotify alone. 

The song also caught the attention of Ruka, a member of South Korean girl group Babymonster, who added it to her public Apple Music playlist.

Jones, who started releasing music in 2019, dropped his first full-length album, Emotions, in late 2023. He has already started on new projects, and recently released his latest single, Pushing Me Away.

He also sang live renditions of Call Me as well as Not Good Enough, one of the songs off Emotions.

Highlights (click/tap above):

0:00 Intro
0:26 Call Me - Rangga Jones (Acoustic)
4:00 Not Good Enough - Rangga Jones (Acoustic)
6:45 - On having K-pop star Ruka from Babymonster as a fan
10:19 - Turning his self-consciousness into a song 
13:41 - His transition from metalhead to pop singer
15:26 - Ed Sheeran inspired him to be a songwriter
19:01 - On becoming a full-time singer just before the pandemic hit
21:36 - He only learnt to speak English at eight years old
22:04 - On his international fanbase
24:51 - Fans recognise him at his part-time job at a cafe
25:43 - A recent break-up inspired his latest song

Discover home-grown artiste Rangga Jones at:

YouTube: https://str.sg/uqA8
Spotify: https://str.sg/LNPc
Instagram: https://str.sg/koXE

Produced by: Eddino Abdul Hadi ([email protected]), Ernest Luis, Eden Soh, Teo Tong Kai & Amirul Karim
Mix & Mastered by: Teo Tong Kai
Edited by: Eden Soh

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