Connie (, ; born Yadana Tun (, ) on 21 December 1967) is a Burmese singer, known for her

Burmese language Burmese (; ) is a Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar people, Bamar, the country's largest ethnic group. Burmese dialects are a ...

covers of American heavy metal and pop songs. She was most popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Connie got her start as a background vocalist for the New Wave band. In the mid-1980s, she was signed by successful cover songwriter Thukhamein Hlaing for three albums. She released her first album, ''Tarzan,'' in 1986, and achieved success with her follow-up album ''Ninja''.

Political activities

Following the

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, Connie was active in the anti-coup movement through social media. On 3 April 2021, warrants for her arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the penal code by the

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for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, she was charged with calling for participation in the

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(CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.

Discography

The following is a partial list of Connie's albums. *''Tarzan'' တာဇံ (1986) *''Ninja'' နင်းဂျား (1987) *''Diana'' ဒိုင်ယာနာ (1988) *''Ta Seint Seint Yin Htae Mal'' တစိမ့်စိမ့်ရင်ထဲမယ် (1988) *''Tarzan/Ninja Let Yway Sin'' တာဇံ/နင်းဂျား လက်ရွေးစင် (1989) *''Kan Kaung Thu Lay'' ကံကောင်းသူလေး (1989) *''Pyar Yay'' ပျားရည် (1990) *''A Pyin Sar Thatu Myar'' အပြင်းစားသတ္တုများ (1992) *''Lu Nge Lay Ta Yaut A Kyaung'' လူငယ်လေးတစ်ယောက်အကြောင်း (1993) *''Kan Dar Ya Tha Chin'' ကန္တာရသီချင်း (1994) *''Kaung Kin Kha Yee'' ကောင်းကင်ခရီး (1994) *''Ko Paing Than Sin Number 3'' ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစဉ် နံပါတ် (၃) (1995) *''A Date Pal Shi Thaw Lu'' အဓိပ္ပာယ်ရှိသောလူ (1995) *''A Pyin Sar Thatu Myar 2'' အပြင်းစားသတ္တုများ ၂ (1997) *''A Taung Pan Par Yin Min Si Ko'' အတောင်ပံပါရင်မင်းဆီကို (1998) *''Chit Tal'' ချစ်တယ် (1999) *''Sone Chin Tal'' ဆုံချင်တယ် (1999) *''A Thet Shin Chin Tha Chin'' အသက်ရှင်ခြင်းသီချင်း (2003) *''Colourful Connie (Live Show)'' ဆေးရောင်စုံကော်နီ Live Show (2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Connie 20th-century Burmese women singers 1967 births Living people Burmese pop singers Singers from Yangon