Maia Estianty
Maia Estianty Maia Estianty , known as Maia Ahmad during her marriage to Dewa 19 frontman Ahmad Dhani, is an Indonesian songwriter, music producer, singer, dancer and actress. Estianty was born in Surabaya, East Java, on 27 January 1976. She was the 5th of six children born to Harjono Sigit and his wife Kusthini. She is the great-granddaughter of Tjokroaminoto, a nationalist Muslim leader and National Hero, through her father's side. As a child, Estianty often fought with her classmates; in an interview with the weekly entertainment magazine Tabloid Nova, she recalled that, while at Yohanes Gabriel Catholic Elementary School in Surabaya, she once hit a classmate with an object so hard that the classmate began to bleed profusely. She also took up music during this time, leading her marching band to win a national championship; she also took up the piano. As a student at State Junior High School 1 in Surabaya, Estianty took up modelling; in 1990 she won the Yess Modelling Competiti...