Born Stephanie Poetri Dougharty in Jakarta in 2000, Poetri is the daughter of Indonesian pop star Titi DJ and American Andrew Hollis Dougharty. While she enjoyed singing as a child, she only became interested in the idea of music as a career after starting to write her own lyrics in high school. As a 15-year-old in late 2015, she sang on Goodbye Felicia's cover of "Bimbang," a song originally by their musician parents, Melly Goeslaw and Anto Hoed. Poetri made her solo debut as Stephanie Poetri with the bilingual Bahasa Indonesia and English "Appreciate" in April 2019. The Indonesian number two hit "I Love You 3000" followed on 12TONE/88Rising in June 2019.
Follow-up singles like "Touch" and "Straight To You" arrived the following year and in 2021, Poetri delivered her debut EP, AM:PM. Anchored by the singles "Selfish" and "How We Used To," the EP veered into a low-key and sometimes dreamy style. Her sophomore EP, Oh To Be In Love, was released the following year and featured a collaboration with American pop artist JVKE on "Bad Haircut." ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi