Rebecca Win (Burmese: ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း, pronounced [jèbɛʔka̰ wɪ́ɰ̃]; born May Hnin Nu (မေနှင်းနု [mè n̥ɪ́ɴ nṵ]) on 15 February 1986) is a retired Burmese singer and model.[1] She performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw.[2] Rebecca Win was a judge on the major televised singing competition Eain Mat Sone Yar (Where dreams meet) and also Myanmar's Got Talent.[3][4]
Rebecca Win ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | May Hnin Nu |
| Born | 15 February 1986 Myitkyina, Burma |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, model |
| Instrument | Vocals • Guitar |
| Years active | 2004–present |
In 2013, she was appointed as a women's ambassador, along with Chit Thu Wai for Myanmar to raise awareness for gender equality and women's rights.[5]
Early life and education
editRebecca Win was born on 15 February 1986 in Myitkyina, Kachin State to a Burmese father and a Kachin mother. One of four siblings. Her aunt L Khun Yi, her cousins L Lun Wa and L Seng Zi, are also popular singers.[6] Her family moved to Yangon when she was just six months old. She converted to Christianity while she joined the church choir at age six. As of 2006, she was a final year Japanese major at the University of Foreign Languages, Yangon.[7]
Career
editRebecca Win was first noticed when she entered Yangon-based City FM Radio's Music Idol contest in 2004. In 2016, she prepared to release three solo albums.[8][9]
She released an album "Meka" on 9 February 2018, which was with Kachin language.[10][11]
She was announced to Media on 3 April 2020, she is taking rest from the professional life of music and model and requested to all not to call her as Rebecca Win of professional name.[12]
Discography
edit- Takha Talay (Sometimes)
- Shote Kone Daw Me (Getting Complicated), collaborated with Yi Mon
- Maka (2018)
TV show
editPersonal life
editRebecca Win married to Kaung Kyaw Swe, a businessman. They celebrate their wedding reception in Judson Church in Yangon for traditional wedding on May 4 2013, and also Sedona Hotel Yangon, on 10 May 2013, and concluded a no-fault divorce in 2020.[13]
References
edit- ^ "တစ်ကိုယ်တော် မီနီအယ်လ်ဘမ်လေးထွက်ရှိဖို့ ကြိုးစားနေတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Kumudra (in Burmese). 7 July 2018.
- ^ "အရှေ့တောင်အာရှနိုင်ငံများ၏ အားကစားနှင့် ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာထုတ်ဖော်". NPE (in Burmese). 11 December 2013.
- ^ ""သီချင်းဆိုပြိုင်ပွဲတွေမှာ ဒိုင်လုပ်ရင် ပရိသတ် အမုန်းခံရတယ်"လို့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 18 February 2020.
- ^ "ရိုးရာသီချင်း ကချင်ဘာသာဖြင့်သီချင်းခွေထွက်ရှိသည့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Women leaders to receive awards this week". The Myanmar Times. 27 October 2013.
- ^ "မိုင်လေးကို စိတ်မဆိုးဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Duwun (in Burmese). 23 November 2018.
- ^ "အဆိုတော်ရေဗက္ကာဝင်းနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း". The Standard Time Daily (in Burmese). 14 February 2018.
- ^ "တစ်ကိုယ်တော် တေးစီးရီးသုံးခွေအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်နေတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Kumudra (in Burmese). 10 November 2016.
- ^ "အနုပညာသက်တမ်း ၁၂ နှစ်အကြာမှ ပထမဆုံး တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေထွက်ရှိမယ့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Mizzima (in Burmese). 9 November 2016.
- ^ "ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း ရဲ့ "Maka" ကချင်ဘာသာတေးစီးရီး စာနယ်ဇင်း မိတ်ဆက်". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 9 February 2018.
- ^ "" ကချင်ဘာသာစကားနဲ့သီဆိုထားတဲ့ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေ ထွက်ရှိမည့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 16 August 2017.
- ^ "အနုပညာသည်ဘဝကို အပြီးအတိုင်စွန့်လွှတ်လိုက်ပြီလို့ ကြေညာလိုက်တဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Duwun (in Burmese). 4 April 2020.
- ^ "အိမ်ထောင်သက်တမ်း(၆)နှစ်ကျော်မှာ ခင်ပွန်းနဲ့ တရားဝင်ကွာရှင်းလိုက်တဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Duwun (in Burmese). 24 March 2020.