Sai Htee Saing ( my, စိုင်းထီးဆိုင် ; 23 September 1950 – 10 March 2008; born Sai Tin U) was a distinguished Burmese singer and songwriter of
Shan descent, which featured prominently throughout his music career. Throughout his career, he recorded two to three
Shan language
The Shan language (written Shan: , , spoken Shan: , or , ; my, ရှမ်းဘာသာ, ; th, ภาษาไทใหญ่, ) is the native language of the Shan people and is mostly spoken in Shan State, Myanmar. It is also spoken in ...
albums and 30 to 40
Burmese language
Burmese ( my, မြန်မာဘာသာ, MLCTS: ''mranmabhasa'', IPA: ) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar (also known as Burma), where it is an official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Burmans, the coun ...
albums.
He was especially known for composing
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
. Vital composer of Sai Htee Saing's songs is
Sai Kham Leik
Sai Kham Leik ( shn, ၸၢႆးၶမ်းလဵၵ်း, my, စိုင်းခမ်းလိတ်), is a successful and prolific Burmese songwriter.
Said to be a physician by training he is an ethnic Shan songwriter and has written ...
.
Sai Htee Saing was born in
Langkho,
Shan State
Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos ...
to
Nang Ein and
U Nanda. He studied at
Mandalay University
Mandalay University (also translated as University of Mandalay; my, မန္တလေးတက္ကသိုလ် ) is a public liberal arts and science university located in Mandalay, Myanmar and one of the sixteen autonomous universities un ...
, where he became one of the founding members of The Wild Ones, an ethnic Shan band, in 1973. Sai Htee Saing began his music career in 1969, when he aired a Shan language song on the
Burma Broadcasting Service
Myanmar Radio and Television ( my, မြန်မာ့အသံနှင့်ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား, abbreviated MRTV), formerly the Burma Broadcasting Service (BBS), is the parent of the state-run Myanmar Radio National ...
. The Wild Ones achieved major success in Burma throughout the 1970s and 1980s, known for composing their own songs in the Burmese language.
Sai Htee Saing was also prominent in the Shan literature movement to preserve Shan language education in Burma. He died on 10 March 2008 in his home No.33
Dhamavihaya Road,Kyar Kwat Thit,Kyauk Myaung, Yangon, and is buried at
Yayway Cemetery
Yayway Cemetery ( my, ရေဝေးသုသာန်, also spelt Yeway Cemetery) is a cemetery located in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, Myanmar. The cemetery is the final resting place of many prominent Burmese. The cemetery is maintained ...
in Yangon.
Selected discography
The career of Sai Htee Saing spanned four decades and along with his group The Wild Ones he recorded more than 40 music albums; most of which were released originally on
cassette. The following is a partial list.
With The Wild Ones
*''ပျောက်ဆုံးနေသောနိဗ္ဗာန်ဘုံ '' (1975)
*''နမ်းခမ်းနွဲ့အတွက် သီချင်းတပုဒ်'' (1976)
*''ကျေနပ်ပါတော့ '' (1977)
*''စိတ္တဇအလွမ်း '' (1977)
*''အိပ်စက်အနားယူပြီး '' (1978) with K Zin Latt
*''နွေနံနက်ခင်း '' (July 1980)
*''သဘာဝရဲ့ရင်သွေးငယ် '' (February 1981) with Sat Maw
*" ငယ်ချစ်ဦး "
*" အရိုင်းမယာရှင် "
*" မျက်ဝန်းပြာ "
*" ကျနော်ချစ်သောမှုံရွှေရည် "
*" တစ်မူးရှိလို့ တစ်ပဲလှူ "
*''ဥပေက္ခာ လောကသား '' (March 1981) with Saw Thein Win
*''လူကြမ်းမင်းသား '' (November 1981)
*''ရန်ကုန်မှာ သာတဲ့လ'' (July 1982) with L Hkawn Yi
*''ပလက်ဖောင်မင်းသား'' (February 1983)
*" အမှတ်တရ "
*''အမှတ်တရ ၂'' (September 1983)
*''အမှတ်တရ ၃'' (February 1984)
*''ကိုယ့်အချစ်နဲ့အရာရာကိုအကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်စေမယ် '' (September 1984)
*''ရေဒီယိုကမာရွတ် '' (February 1985)
*''ချစ်အာမခံ'' (October 1985)
*''မောင့်အရှိုင်းပန် '' (November 1985)
*''သခင့်ဆီအပြေးပြန်လာမည် '' (February 1986)
*''လေညာအရပ်က အချစ် ' (January 1987)
*''ဘဝမီးအိမ် '' (October 1987)
*''ဝေးလုခါ၊ ဝေးနေချိန်'' (May 1988) with William
*''ရတနာ'' (January 1989)
*''အားလုံးကိုပျော်စေချင်ခဲ့သူ '' (August 1989) re-recordings of older hits
*" ကိုယ်တစ်ယောက်တည်းကျန်"
*" ချယ်ရီကိုသာပန်ပါကွယ်"
*" အချစ်ဖိတ်စာ "
*" ရခွင့် "
*" သဘောၤသားတစ်ယောက်အကြောင်း "
*" မတောင်းဘဲပြည့်တဲ့ဆု "
*" အကျည်းတန်ချစ်သူ "
*" မိုးလုံးပတ်လည် "
*" သပြေညိုဆိုတဲ့ပန်း "
*" အနီးဆုံးသွေး အဝေးဆုံးလူ "
*" အတ္တစိတ်ကူး "
*" အကောင်းတကာအကောင်းဆုံးတေး "
*" အကောင်းတကာအကောင်းဆုံးတေး ၂
*" အကောင်းတကာအကောင်းဆုံးတေး ၃
*" အကောင်းတကာအကောင်းဆုံးတေး ၄
*" အကောင်းတကာအကောင်းဆုံးတေး ၅
*''ဢမ်ႇမီးသင်လိူဝ်ႁၵ်ႉ'' (198?)
Shan language
The Shan language (written Shan: , , spoken Shan: , or , ; my, ရှမ်းဘာသာ, ; th, ภาษาไทใหญ่, ) is the native language of the Shan people and is mostly spoken in Shan State, Myanmar. It is also spoken in ...
re-recordings
*''အချစ်ဆုတောင်း '' (February 1990) with Mi Mi Win Pe
*''ခြင်္သေ့လည်ပြန်'' (April 1991) re-recordings on 16-track tape
*''ဝမ်းရေး'' (October 1992) with Mi Mi Win Pe
*" မြဲနေသေးတဲ့လက်တွဲတစ်ခု " With " Mi Mi Win Pe"
*" မှာသူတစ်ယောက် လာသူတစ်ယောက် " With Mi Mi Win Pe
*' အမြတ်နိုးဆုံးနှင်း " With May Sweet
*" အချစ်မျဉ်းပြိုင် " With May Sweet
*" လက်ရေတပြင်တည်း " With Hay Mar Ni Win
*" မေတ္တာဂုဏ် " With Hay Mar Ni Win
*" ဆုံးဖြတ်လိုက်ပါ ဆုံးဖြတ်လိုက်ပြီး " With ဆလိုင်းဆွန်ကျဲအို
*" ရှင်သန်နေတဲ့မေတ္တာ " With ဆလိုင်းဆွန်ကျဲအို
*" အစစ်အမှန် " With နန်းနောင်နောင်
References
External links
Tribute to Sai Htee Saing
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20th-century Burmese male singers
1950 births
2008 deaths
Burmese people of Shan descent
People from Shan State
Mandalay University alumni