Nwe Yin Win (, ; born Joyce Win on 23 April 1945) is a Burmese singer, considered one of the pioneers of modern
Burmese pop music.
Early life and education
Nwe Yin Win was born in
Sagaing
Sagaing (, ) is a town in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. It is located on the Irrawaddy River, to the south-west of Mandalay on the opposite bank of the river. Sagaing, with its numerous Buddhist monasteries, is an important religious and ...
on 23 April 1945 to Min Swe (also known as Win Maung), of
Bamar
The Bamar people (Burmese language, Burmese: ဗမာလူမျိုး, ''ba. ma lu myui:'' ) (formerly known as Burmese people or Burmans) are a Sino-Tibetan-speaking ethnic group native to Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). With an esti ...
descent, and "Gertie Win" Tin Tin Hla, of
Anglo-Burmese
The Anglo-Burmese people, also known as the Anglo-Burmans, are a community of Eurasians of Burmese and European descent; they emerged as a distinct community through mixed relationships (sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary) between the B ...
descent. She attended the English-speaking
St. Francis Girls' School (today's Tamwe 4 High School) and
St. Philomena's Convent High School (Sanchaung 2 High School). In 1967, she graduated from
Rangoon University
The University of Yangon (also Yangon University; , ; formerly Rangoon College, University of Rangoon and Rangoon Arts and Sciences University), located in Kamayut, Yangon, is the oldest university in Myanmar's modern education system and the b ...
with a degree in English before getting a master's degree (MEd) in 1973 at the
Rangoon Institute of Education. During her time in college, she began dabbling with a music career.
Career
She was one of the most popular singers in
Myanmar
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in the 1970s, known for her
Burmese language
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covers of American
country
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and pop songs. Before her career in entertainment, she was a university lecturer in English. She continues to make records, even dabbling into
Burmese hip hop, and continues to perform in musical concerts.
Album discography
Nwe Yin Win recorded many songs in the 1970s. The following is a partial list of her later releases.
Solo Albums
* ''Eskimo'' အက်စကီးမိုး (1979)
* ''A Chit So Tar'' အချစ်ဆိုတာ (1980)
* ''Shwe Pin Nar Tae Hnget War War'' ရွှေပင်နားတဲ့ငှက်ဝါဝါ (1981)
* ''A Chit Myo'' အချစ်မြို့ (1982)
* ''Shwe Tharahpu Tha Chin Myar'' ရွှေသရဖူသီချင်းများ (1982)
* ''Gypsy A Chit'' ဂျစ်ပစီအချစ် (1982)
* ''Nwe Yin Win Tha Chin Myar'' နွဲ့ယဉ်ဝင်းသီချင်းများ (1983)
* ''Min Thar'' မင်းသား (1984)
* ''Ar Kar Tha Sate Kuu'' အာကာသစိတ်ကူး (1985)
* ''An Ta Yel'' အန္တရာယ် (1993)
* ''More Than I Can Say'' (1995)
* ''Nwe Myo Sone Lin'' နွဲ့မျိုးစုံလင် (1996)
* ''Ma Nae Maung A Kaung Sone Tay Myar'' မနဲ့မောင် အကောင်းဆုံးတေးများ (1997)
* ''Shwe Pin Lae Nae A Kaung Sone Tay Myar'' ရွှေပင်လယ် နှင့် အကောင်းဆုံးတေးများ (2000)
* ''Hnit 40 Kha Yee... A Shi A Tine'' နှစ် ၄၀ ခရီး...အရှိအတိုင်း (2005)
* ''Thi Chin Ma Shi Yin A Chit Ma Shi... 45 Hnit Kha Yee'' သီချင်းမရှိရင်အချစ်မရှိ...၄၅ နှစ်ခရီး (2010)
With other artists
* ''Sat Su Ma (+ Kyi Swe)'' စပ်စုမ (+ ကြည်ဆွေ) (1978)
* ''Thaw Kyar Ma (+ Kyi Swe)'' သောကြာမ (+ ကြည်ဆွေ) (1979)
* ''Nay Yit Tot Chit Thel Lay Yaut Kyar Tway Ko Mone Lite Par (+ Cho Pyone)'' နေရစ်တော့ချစ်သဲလေး ယောက်ျားတွေကိုမုန်းလိုက်ပါ (+ ချိုပြုံး) (1979)
* ''Swan Taw Byo (+ Kyi Swe)'' ဆွမ်းတော်ဗျို့ (+ကြည်ဆွေ) (1980)
* ''Gyit Tu Ma Chit Chit Lu Mite'' ဂျစ်တူးမ ချစ်ချစ်လူမိုက် (+ နော်လီဇာ) (1980)
* ''Tha Pyay Thee Kauk (+ Su Myat Noe Oo)'' သပြေသီးကောက် (+ စုမြတ်နိုးဦး) (1998)
References
External links
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1945 births
Living people
Anglo-Burmese people
20th-century Burmese women singers
People from Sagaing Region
University of Yangon alumni