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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Iwa K
Person · male · Indonesia · Bandung · born 1970
Indonesian rapper
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1970s
Biography
English biography160 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1319749222
Biography
Iwa Kusuma, also known as Iwa K (born 25 October 1970) is an Indonesian rapper, singer, songwriter, TV presenter, and actor.
Kusuma was born in Bandung, Indonesia. He was a pioneer in Indonesian hip hop music and since his successful career in 1990s, he has become an icon of the nation's hip hop music genre. He began his musical career in the late 1980s. He is the first Indonesian rapper to have released a full-length album (Kuingin Kembali in 1992). He is also the best selling Indonesian rapper to date.
Iwa has won an Indonesian Music Award for Best Rap Performance in 1999. His album with Guest Band, Ta'kan, gained a place at #131 in Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine's "150 Greatest Indonesian Albums of All Time" list. His debut solo album, Ku Ingin Kembali, also included in the list at #117. One of his songs, "Bebas" (1995) ranked #36 in Rolling Stone's "150 Greatest Indonesian Songs of All Time" list.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Iwa K head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3034449genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3034449seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwa_Kbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwa_K
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
- List of Indonesian musicians and musical groups
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Netmediatama · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3034449 · MusicBrainz: 55a8fd1d-b590-490c-9eec-d9e96e92b1fa
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