Guess What? Bill Saragih

Guess What? Bill Saragih

What's in a name? It's money. Oops, not really. But for
veteran jazz musician Bill Amirsyah Saragih, a name has a lot to
do with business. That is why he changed his name to Bill
Simatupang.

"Simatupang is Siang malam tunggu panggilan (Waiting for order
day and night)," Bill joked during the cocktail party held in
conjunction with the 17th anniversary of The Jakarta Post at The
Regent hotel in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Bill said he has become "a high-class unemployed man" since he
stopped performing at pubs in the city recently and started to
take orders from companies, "including state-owned pawnshop
company Perum Pegadaian".

But now he prefers to sing at Chinese wedding parties.

"It's a true business," he said. At such parties, he only
sings one or two songs, but receives quite a nice sum of money.

One day, he said, after he sang one line of a song at a
wedding party, suddenly there was a blackout. Not too long
afterward, the family of the bride came to him and handed him a
receipt to sign. He could not believe it. "It's big money," he
said. (Darul Aqsha)