Ni Ni Khin Zaw Explained

Ni Ni Khin Zaw
Native Name Lang:my
Birth Name:Ni Ni Khin Zaw
Birth Date:31 August 1991
Birth Place:Yekyi, Myanmar
Instrument:Vocals
Years Active:2008–present

Ni Ni Khin Zaw (Burmese: နီနီခင်ဇော်; born 31 August 1991) is a Burmese pop singer.[1] She is the 2008 winner at The Best of Melody World, a televised singing competition.[2] She performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw.[3]

Early life and education

She was born on 31 August 1991 in Yekyi, Myanmar. She attended and graduated from the University of Medicine 2, Yangon.[4]

Career

Ni Ni Khin Zaw participated and won the 2008 season of Melody World, a televised singing competition. She did not immediately join the music industry. Between 2008 and 2012, she pursued higher education, graduating with a medical degree from the University of Medicine 2, Yangon.

The leaking of The Best of Melody World 2008 album propelled her to stardom. She recorded three solo songs and one collaboration song in that album, including "Enemy" ("ရန်သူ"), "Although We're Far Away" ("အဝေးရောက်နေပါသော်လည်း"), and "Stop" ("ရပ်").

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with well-known Burmese artists. She collaborated with rapper Nine One in her single "Don't Colour" ("အရောင်မဆိုးနဲ့"), which garnered 20 million streams and 15 million in sales. In 2012, she also featured in Bobby Soxer's album Rocket (ဒုံးပျံ), namely a track called "Believe It" ("ယုံကြည်လိုက်"). Other well-known songs include "Cloud Poem" ("မိုးတိမ်ကဗျာ") with Yatha, a rapper; "Best Friends Forever" ("ထာဝရသူငယ်ချင်း") with Hlwan Paing; "Birthday Presents" ("မွေးနေ့လက်ဆောင်များ"), and "A Love That will Never Change" ("မပြောင်းလဲနိုင်တဲ့အချစ်").

In 2015, she released her iconic album Red. Upon the album's release, news emerged of her marriage to an older businessman and allegations that she had intentionally concealed her personal life to further her career. Ni Ni Khin Zaw held her first concert, the REDvolution Show, on 1 April 2017.[5] Successive REDvolution shows have been held in April 2018 and November 2019 in Singapore.

Since 2018, Ni Ni Khin Zaw has served as a coach on three seasons of The Voice Myanmar.[6]

Honours and awards

Major M Music Awards 2018[7]

YearRecipientAwardResult
2018UBest Pop Album
Album Of The Year
Kha Yay Lann DiaryBest Pop Song
Ni Ni Khin ZawArtist Of The Year
Retro RedvolutionBest Live Show
Best Live Performance Mario (Retro Redvolution)
Stand By MeFav Song

Discography

Albums

Mini albums

Personal life

Ni Ni Khin Zaw married Myo Myint Thein, a merchant vessel chief engineer and widower, on 10 June 2010. The couple divorced in 2013.[8] [9] [10] [11]

In February 2023, she announced her engagement to a previously undisclosed boyfriend.[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Singing finalists perform. Lwin Mar Htun. 24 September 2012. Myanmar Times. 17 July 2015. 20 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150720224311/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/1723-singing-finalists-perform.html. live.
  2. News: သူတို့သံစဉ် သူတို့ကမ္ဘာ. 1 March 2011. 8 Days Journal. 17 July 2015. Burmese. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721003022/http://www.yatanarpon.com.mm/news/review-8824. 21 July 2015.
  3. News: မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ နာမည်ကြီး အနုပညာရှင်များ ပါဝင်လာသည့် ဆီးဂိမ်းလှုံ့ဆော်ရေး မတ်လတတိယအပတ်မှ စတင်ပြီ. အေဝိုင်အီး. Pyi Myanmar. Yatanarpon. 17 July 2015. Burmese. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721003105/http://www.yatanarpon.com.mm/news/news-77993?print=1. 21 July 2015.
  4. News: အနုပညာ အလုပ်ကို လုပ်နေ ပေမယ့်လည်း ဆရာဝန် အလုပ်ကို လက်မလွှတ် ပါဘူးလို့ ဆိုလာသူ နီနီခင်ဇော်. စကားဝါ. 19 May 2014. Myawady. 17 July 2015. Burmese. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721081918/http://www.myawady.net.mm/ministrywebsites/item/42155-2014-05-19-13-49-44. 21 July 2015. dead.
  5. Web site: redvolution-show-by-ni-ni-khin-zaw-peoples-square-and-park .
  6. Web site: 2018-02-01. Never fear, the Voice is here. 2022-02-26. The Myanmar Times. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226004154/https://www.mmtimes.com/news/never-fear-voice-here.html. live.
  7. News: Major m music awards winners. Major M. 1 Dec 2018. Major M. my. 1 September 2019. 25 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190825191707/https://majormmyanmar.wordpress.com/major-m-music-awards/. live.
  8. Web site: Talented Singer Ni Ni Khin Zaw Has Gotten Success In Her Clutches Within Six Years. Myanmar Celebrities. 5 December 2017. en. 8 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171208003201/http://www.myanmarcuties.com/2015/05/talented-singer-ni-ni-khin-zaw-has.html?m=0. live.
  9. Web site: Interviewed with U Myo Myint Thein about him & Ni Ni Khin Zaw full story. Shwe Darling. 5 December 2017. en. 7 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171207192404/http://www.shwedarling.com/blog/2016/09/11/interviewed-with-u-myo-myint-thein-about-him-ni-ni-khin-zaw/. live.
  10. Web site: Talented Singer Ni Ni Khin Zaw Has Gotten Success In Her Clutches Within Six Years. Myanmar Celebrities. 5 December 2017. en. 8 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171208003305/http://www.myanmarcuties.com/2016/09/fans-gave-empathy-on-love-affair-of-ni.html?m=0. live.
  11. News: The name on everyone's lips. Aung. Nandar. The Myanmar Times. 2017-08-08. en-gb. 8 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170808114039/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/22682-the-name-on-everyone-s-lips.html. live.
  12. Web site: 2023-02-25 . ပဟေဠိဆန်စွာ ဖွက်ထားခဲ့တဲ့ ချစ်သူကို အလင်းပြလိုက်တဲ့ နီနီခင်ဇော် Duwun . 2023-12-29 . Duwun - မျိုးဆက်သစ်တို့ရဲ့မီဒီယာ . my.

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