Tiara Andini

Early in her career, Tiara often participates in local-scale singing talent contests.[13] Tiara was a known finalist of Bintang Radio Indonesia and Asean RRI Jember in 2017.[19] In 2018, Tiara was selected as a prototype fashion model for the Jember Fashion Carnaval with the theme of South Korea at the closing of the 2018 Asian Games. At the event, Tiara also had the opportunity to share a moment with the South Korean idol group, Super Junior.[20]

Continuing to talent contests on television, Tiara participated in the third season of The Voice Indonesia, in which she failed her audition performing the song "Bang Bang" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj.[21] Before becoming as publicly known as she is today, Tiara also worked as a wedding singer, often singing Mandarin songs at Chinese weddings. Tiara received job offers almost every week. The first income Tiara received at that time was roughly 100,000 IDR ($6.89).[22]

Portrait of Tiara Andini during the Indonesian Idol competition in 2019–2020.

In 2019, Tiara again participated in the talent search event, Indonesian Idol. During the audition, Tiara performed Raisa's song "Could it Be" and got a titanium ticket[lower-alpha 1] from Judika.[23] Because of this, Tiara is known as the girl who received the titanium ticket in the tenth season and she is the only recipient of the titanium ticket who ever make it through to the final round in Indonesian Idol history.[3] When competing Tiara had an official fan club founded on November 26, 2019—when Tiara was in the top 13, named "Mootiara" which stands for "Mood Tiara Andini".

After passing the audition stage and going through a competition quarantine process for 5 months, on March 2, 2020, Tiara was named the runner-up.[24] As the runner-up of the tenth season of Indonesian Idol, Tiara received a cash prize of 100,000,000 IDR, as well as one unit of the All New Nissan Livina MPV car.[25] After the show, Tiara signed a contract with the record label Universal Music Indonesia and was managed by Star Media Nusantara, an artist management company owned by MNC Group.

From Indonesian Idol, Tiara got a winning song entitled "Gemintang Hatiku" which became her first single as a singer. There are two versions of the song, Tiara sings a dance pop version of this song.[26] This song succeeded in bringing Tiara to win the award as "Best Newcomer" from the 2020 Anugerah Musik Indonesia Awards[27] and the award as "Best New Asian Artist Indonesia" from the 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards.[5]

Two months after graduating from Indonesian Idol, Tiara made her acting debut in the sinema elektronik Amanah Wali 4 as a supporting actor playing the character Tiara for 4 episodes from episodes 26 to 29 which aired on the RCTI television station in May 2020.[28]

On July 1, 2020, Tiara was lined up to presenter the event Dahsyatnya 2020 which was broadcast by the RCTI television station, she joined 3 other presenters, namely Ayu Dewi, Denny Cagur, and Raffi Ahmad.[29] Continued on July 29, 2020, Tiara was lined up to be the presenter with Luna Maya at Tokopedia: Waktu Indonesia Belanja TV Show which presented a special appearance from South Korean boy band, BTS. This event was broadcast by Indosiar and SCTV television stations.[30]

On August 8, 2020, Tiara became one of the performers at the Smartfren WOW Virtual Concert which was broadcast live in three countries, namely Indonesia, England and South Korea. In Indonesia, this event is broadcast by the television station SCTV. In this event, Tiara is trusted to have a duet with one of the legends of Indonesian music, the late Didi Kempot using the concept of holograms, extended reality (XR) and interactive virtual audience technology.[31]

On February 21, 2021, Tiara sang a duet with the Thai actor, Bright Vachirawit at the Giveaway Roboguru Show. This event was broadcast by 9 television stations, namely Indosiar, Trans7, Trans TV, RCTI, GTV, SCTV, MNCTV, RTV, and NET..[32]

Portrait of Tiara and Jefri Nichol when attending the Falcon Showcase 2022.

Tiara made her film debut by starring in the film titled My Sassy Girl directed by Fajar Bustomi, which is a remake of the 2001 South Korean film of the same name.[33] Tiara was cast as the main role alongside Jefri Nichol.[34]

A year after graduating from Indonesian Idol, Tiara was joined by Arsy Widianto to collaborate on a music project. This project was originally a music series consisting of four interconnected songs, starting with the song "Cintanya Aku" and ending with "Bahaya".[35] On March 12, 2021, the music series was packaged and released as a extended play entitled Arti untuk Cinta with the addition of one new song to the album track.[36] Four songs in this album were performed in collaboration and a song was performed solo by Arsy Widianto, namely "Padamu Luka". The word 'Arti' used in the title is an abbreviation of the names Arsy and Tiara. In the making of this album, Indonesian musician Yovie Widianto was assisted as a songwriter and as a producer assisted by Adrian Kitut. Arti untuk Cinta has won the award as "Best Pop Album" from the 2021 Anugerah Musik Indonesia Awards.[37]

Two days before the release of her debut album, she was picked as Spotify's Indonesian Artist of the Month in the context of the Equal campaign program. In the campaign, her photo was chosen to be placed on a digital billboard at Times Square in New York, United States.[38] On December 17, 2021, she released her first studio album which has a homonymous title with her stage name. The album contains eight tracks of which five singles have been previously released. Celebrating the release of her debut album, she also held an Afterparty event which aired exclusively through the YouTube Premium service on the album's release date.[39]

On December 30, 2021, Tiara along with other musicians such as Raisa, Noah, Weird Genius, and Erwin Gutawa were involved in a music concert titled Suryanation: Suara Cahaya Nusantara which was broadcast live by SCTV television station with the theme of Indonesia's fighting spirit to enter 2022. Suryanation: Suara Cahaya Nusantara is the first music concert and program on Indonesian television that uses extended reality (XR) technology throughout the event.[40]

On January 16, 2022, Tiara along with Gangga Kusuma, Nadin Amizah, Juicy Luicy, and Kaleb J were included in the list of 5 outstanding young musicians of Spotify Wrapped 2021.[41]

Tiara admitted that she was idolized as well as inspired by Raisa as her reference in singing. Since her debut in Indonesian Idol, her voice has received acknowledgement. Indonesian musician, Yovie Widianto said that Tiara has a voice color that is almost similar to Raisa.[42] Tiara who loves K-pop music also makes Kim Jennie, a member of Blackpink as a role model for her career in the Indonesian music industry. Tiara is motivated to add quality to her music along with her dancing skills.[43][44] This is shown by Tiara in her 2 singles, "Gemintang Hatiku" and "Hadapi Berdua"[45] where she displays the ability to sing while dancing.

The influence of Korean pop culture on Tiara's musical style can also be seen in several of her music videos packaged in the style of Korean dramas such as the Arti untuk Cinta music series,[46] the singles "Hadapi Berdua"[47] and "Buktikan".[48] In addition, Tiara also released a Korean song which was included in the track for her extended play, Arti untuk Cinta.

Tiara Andini's performance in the Indonesian Idol victory concert at Gandaria City.

Tiara is known as an Indonesian pop music singer. Specifically, she often carries the pop ballad genre. Most of the songs she releases have a slow tempo and tone with a melancholy theme dominated. Her first extended play, Arti untuk Cinta, is thick with pop ballads with lyrics about romantic relationships.[49] Likewise with her debut album, Tiara Andini, most of her songs are pop ballads.[50] Five of the eight songs are in the pop ballad genre, such as "Maafkan Aku #terlanjurmencinta" and "365". In 2 songs entitled "Hadapi Berdua" and "Gemintang Hatiku" she explored her musical style in bringing dance pop genres and she also showed her ability in the field of dance.[51] As for the song "Buktikan" Tiara brings the R&B pop genre.[52]

The official logo of Tiara Andini.

After graduating from Indonesian Idol, Tiara changed her stage name which was previously called Tiara Anugrah when she competed, to become Tiara Andini. She felt that Anugrah was quite difficult to pronounce. Therefore, Tiara chose to use Andini as her stage name which was taken from her last name. Before choosing Tiara Andini as her new stage name, she consulted with her parents and management.[53]

• Tiara received YouTube Creator Awards in the form of a Silver Creator Award on June 24, 2020 because her YouTube channel has reached 100 thousand subscribers.[132]
• Tiara received the 2020 Social Media Awards which was managed by Marketing magazine and based on the results of research conducted by an independent institution, MediaWave in the Female Singer category for the extraordinary positive sentiment on social media.[133]
• Tiara received an award from the YouTube Partner Summit 2020, because her second single entitled "Maafkan Aku #terlanjurmencinta" managed to stay on the YouTube trending chart for 28 consecutive weeks.[134]
• Tiara received YouTube Creator Awards in the form of Gold Creator Award on February 22, 2021 because her YouTube channel has reached 1 million subscribers.[135]
• Tiara along with nine other women won the Indonesia's Beautiful Women 2021 award which was held by HighEnd magazine.[136]

At the beginning of its appearance in the entertainment industry after graduating from Indonesian Idol, in 2020 Tiara was trusted by a telecommunications service provider company, Smartfren to become a brand ambassador.[137] Along with her career, Tiara has also been appointed as a brand ambassador for several products, including:

• Smartfren (2020)[137]
• Hanasui (2021—2022)[138]
• Good Day (2021—present)[139]

On March 17, 2022, Tiara Andini along with Bintang Emon and Eva Celia were selected to be part of Awesome Generation. Awesome Generation is a new project from the Samsung mobile phone brand which has just launched the latest Galaxy A series, Galaxy A53 5G. 17 days after the launch of the Samsung Galaxy A53 5G in Indonesia, Samsung Indonesia uploaded a 49-second video of Tiara on its Instagram page, at the end of the video it says "Samsung Galaxy A53 5G X Tiara Andini," which means Tiara is collaborating with the Samsung Galaxy A53 5G.[140]

• Smartfren 1ON+ (2020)[141]
• Samsung Galaxy A Series (2020)[142] (with xxgoy & Ramengvrl)
• Good Day Mocacinno (2021)[143] (with Rizky Febian)
• Hanasui Vitamin C + Collagen Serum (2021)[144]
• Lazada Festival Belanja 11.11 (2021)[145]
• Samsung Galaxy A Series 5G (2022)[146] (with Bintang Emon & Eva Celia)