Saung Oo Hlaing Explained

Saung Oo Hlaing
Birth Date:8 December 1971
Birth Place:Yangon, Myanmar
Genre:Burmese pop
Occupation:singer-songwriter
Years Active:1998  - present

Saung Oo Hlaing (Burmese: ဆောင်းဦးလှိုင် in Burmese pronounced as /sʰáʊɰ̃ ʔú l̥àɪɰ̃/; born 8 December 1971) is a Burmese singer-songwriter. He is one of the few Burmese successful songwriters that do not rely on writing cover songs. In a 2008 interview, he claimed that he had not written a cover song since 2003, and that 95% of 400 plus songs he had written were of his own creation.[1]

Saung Oo Hlaing is a medical doctor by profession; he has a MBBS degree from the University of Medicine 1, Yangon.[2]

In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Saung Oo Hlaing was stripped of his citizenship for left the country illegally in violation of the country's existing laws, had acted in a way that harmed the interests of Myanmar.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Saung Oo Hlaing's 10th Anniversary in Burmese Music Industry . People Magazine Myanmar . 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110722182318/http://www.people.com.mm/article.cfm?id=495&sec=10 . 22 July 2011 .
  2. News: ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် အနုပညာအသင်း အကြောင်း ဆောင်းဦးလှိုင် ဖွင့်ဟ. 8 October 2012. Popular News. Burmese. 18 July 2015.
  3. Web site: SAC announces to remove the citizenship for five people including singer Saung Oo Hlaing . 2023-03-06 . Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd . en.