Biography

Ni Luh Ketut Mahalini Ayu Raharja, known mononymously as Mahalini, (born 4 March 2000) is an Indonesian singer-songwriter and actor. Born and raised in Denpasar, Bali, Mahalini started her career in the music industry with the single entitled "Bawa Dia Lagi" in 2015. However, she began to gain public attention after becoming the top five in the tenth season of Indonesian Idol.[2] After the competition, Mahalini joined the record company Hits Records and released the solo single "Melawan Restu" which won her her first award in the music industry as New Artist of the Year from the 2021 Indonesian Music Awards.

Mahalini's debut album, fábula, was released in early 2023 and managed to reach position 1 on digital music charts in two countries, Indonesia and Malaysia. The album currently holds the record as the most popular Indonesian album in Spotify history with a total of 1 billion streams as of December 2023.[3] Mahalini also has four songs with over 100 million plays on the platform, namely "Melawan Restu", "Sisa Rasa", "Perfect Story", and "Sial".[4] Apart from that, Mahalini is an Indonesian-based singer with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, namely 10.3 million at the end of June 2023.