Derek Millar Explained

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Derek Millar
Native Name Lang:my
Birth Place:Burma
Occupation:Singer-songwriter
Years Active:1983-present

Derek Millar (Burmese: ဒဲရစ်မေလာ; born 10 January 1962) is a Burmese-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his hit songs, "The Nu" (သဲနု) and "Blue Coffee Shop" (အပြာရောင်ကော်ဖီဆိုင်).[1]

Early life and education

Millar was born in 1962 and was raised in Mingala Taungnyunt Township, Rangoon (now Yangon). He graduated from Rangoon University, majoring in physics. During his time, he befriended contemporaneous singer-songwriters, including Htoo Ein Thin and Khin Maung Toe.

Career

Millar released his first album in 1983. In 1986, he released his second album, New Age Currents (ခေတ်သစ်ရေစီး), which included a hit song, "Blue Coffee Shop," that elevated him to fame. He composed songs in Wai La's 2019 album Cāritta (စာရိတ္တ).[2] [3]

Discography

Personal life

Millar is of Scottish ancestry. He is married and has two children.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mratt Kyaw Thu . 2017-01-28 . A legend of blues and jazz . 2023-03-24 . Frontier Myanmar . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2019-09-28 . " ပရိသတ်တွေရဲ့ ရင်ထဲကို ရောက်ရှိလာဦးမည့် ဝေလရဲ့ "စာရိတ္တ" " . 2023-03-24 . Lotaya . en.
  3. Web site: 2019-10-02 . "စာရိတ္တ"ဟု အမည်ပေးထားသော ဝေလ၏ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေသစ် ထွက်ရှိ . 2023-03-24 . MDN - Myanmar DigitalNews . my.