Nwe Yin Win

Nwe Yin Win
နွဲ့ယဉ်ဝင်း
Nwe Yin Win ; နွဲ့ယဉ်ဝင်း
Birth name	Joyce Win
Born	23 April 1945 (age 79); Sagaing, Burma
Genres	Burmese pop
Occupation(s)	singer
Years active	1970s to present

Nwe Yin Win (Burmese: နွဲ့ယဉ်ဝင်း, pronounced [nwɛ̰ jɪ̀ɰ̃ wɪ́ɰ̃]; born Joyce Win on 23 April 1945) is a Burmese singer, considered one of the pioneers of modern Burmese pop music.^[1] Nwe Yin Win was born in Sagaing to parents a Bamar father Min Swe (also known as Win Maung) and an Anglo-Burmese mother "Gertie Win" Tin Tin Hla. 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 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.

She was one of the most popular singers in Myanmar in the 1970s, known for her Burmese language covers of American country 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.^[2]

Album discography[edit]

Nwe Yin Win recorded many songs in the 1970s, when official named albums were rarely released in Myanmar. The following is a partial list of her later releases.

Solo Albums[edit]

Eskimo အက်စကီးမိုး (1977)
A Chit So Tar အချစ်ဆိုတာ (1981)
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[edit]

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[edit]

^ Min Zin (September 2002). "Burmese Pop Music: Identity in Transition". The Irrawaddy. 10 (7). Archived from the original on 3 August 2010.
^ Aaron Clark (28 August 2006). "Piracy Hits Burma's Legitimate Film and Music Scene". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 11 August 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2010.

External links[edit]

Nwe Yin Win on Facebook

[mz-1] Min Zin (September 2002). "Burmese Pop Music: Identity in Transition". The Irrawaddy. 10 (7). Archived from the original on 3 August 2010.

[ap-2] Aaron Clark (28 August 2006). "Piracy Hits Burma's Legitimate Film and Music Scene". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 11 August 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2010.

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