Ah Boy

Ah Boy (Burmese: အာဘွိုင်း; born Kyaw Phyo Tun; on 13 January 1986) is a Burmese hip hop singer-songwriter, pioneer of the third generation of Burmese hip hop and businessman of Sino-Mon descent.[1] He is the former lead vocalist of the popular Burmese hip hop band Rock$tar.[2][3][4]

In this Burmese name, the given name is Ah Boy. There is no family name.
Ah Boy
အာဘွိုင်း
Ah Boy in 2019
Born
Kyaw Phyo Tun

(1986-01-13) 13 January 1986
Myeik, Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, businessman
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Spouses
Cindy
​
​
(m. 2006; div. 2012)​
    Myat Yadanar Kyaw
    ​
    (m. 2017)​
    ChildrenJuliet
    Jewel
    Scarlett Phyo Tun
    Parent(s)Sein Wan
    Myint Zu Htun
    Musical career
    GenresHip hop
    InstrumentsVocals
    Years active2002–present
    Formerly ofRock$tar

    Early life and education

    Ah Boy was born to Sein Wan, a well-known Moulmeinian business tycoon and his wife Myint Zu Htun in Myeik, Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar on 13 January 1986. Ah Boy is of Sino-Mon descent.[2] He has a younger sister and a younger brother. He is a nephew of actor Lwin Moe. His family moved to Yangon from Myeik at his age 3. He attended high school at International School of Myanmar (ISM) and also educated in Practising School Yangon Institute of Education.

    Career

    Music career

    Ah Boy started his music career in 2002, while still a student. Shortly after, he became a member of the hip hop boy band Rock$tar and released songs and mix-tapes, collaborating with Rock$tar's members. Since then he has worked with mainstream artists. He is also active as a solo singer and launched his debut album Ta Yoke Tan (Chinatown) in 2007.

    On 7 June 2020, he released a single song with featured artist, ChanMyae MgCho, called "A Ngweh A That Myar" (အ‌ငွေ့အသက်များ) which peaked at number one on Joox's top 100 chart.[5][6][7] That song listed in the Top 10 Popular Songs of Year 2020 and also won the JOOX 2020 Popular Song Award.[8] On 11 November 2020, he released a single song with featured artist, Key Layshi, called "Kyay Kyun" (ကျေးကျွန်).[9]

    Business career

    His family owns many business in Myanmar, including Myanmar Lighting – IPP Co., Ltd and Bedok Construction and Engineering Co., Ltd. He is working as the managing director of both Myanmar Lighting – IPP Co., Ltd and Bedok Construction and Engineering Co., Ltd.[10] He is also a director of Southern Myanmar Development Co., Ltd.[11]

    Ah Boy is also a co-owner of FUSE, a club in Yangon.[2]

    Social works

    In March 2021, Ah Boy and his wife, Myat Yadanar Kyaw, launched a campaign "Support Local Business" to help local businesses.[12]

    In July 2021, Ah Boy and Kyi Thar Han launched Dynamic Health Myanmar to donate 100 oxygen tanks (40 liter) to people who needed oxygen during the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar.[12]

    Discography

    Solo albums
    • Ta Yoke Tan (တရုတ်တန်း) (2007)

    Singles
    • A Ngweh A That Myar (2020)
    • Kyay Kyun (2020)

    Personal life

    Ah Boy married to singer Cindy in 2006. They have two daughters and divorced in 2012.

    On 23 June 2012, he had seen a relationship with actress San Yati Moe Myint, but they broke up after some years.[13]

    In 2016, he had a relationship with model Myat Yadanar Kyaw and they married on 21 December 2017.[14] Myat gave birth to their first daughter Scarlett Phyo Tun in 2018.

    References
    1. Khine, Lin Lin (8 July 2019). "An Interview wth Ah-Boy". Eleven Media Group.
    2. Khine, Lin Lin (28 June 2019). "အခုတော့ မိသားစုအတွက်ပဲ အရာအားလုံး ပြောင်းလဲထားတယ်လို့ဆိုသူ တေးသံရှင် Ah – Boy ရဲ့ ငယ်စဉ်ဘဝ အမှတ်တရဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese).
    3. "Rock Star အဖွဲ့က Ah boy ကို ပရိသတ်တွေ မှတ်မိနေကြဦးမှာပါ". Yatanarpon News (in Burmese). Retrieved 12 October 2017.
    4. "သူ့ရဲ့တာဝန်မကျေခဲ့မှုနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး ဖွင့်ဟလာတဲ့ Ah boy". Myanmar Hip Hop Channel (in Burmese). 18 February 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
    5. ""အငွေ့အသက်များ"သီချင်းလေး Joox ရဲ့ နံပါတ်(၁)နေရာကို ရောက်ရှိတဲ့အတွက် ဝမ်းသာ ဂုဏ်ယူနေခဲ့တဲ့ Ah Boy". Lotaya MPT (in Burmese). 13 July 2020.
    6. ""အငွေ့အသက်များ"သီချင်းလေး Joox ရဲ့ နံပါတ်(၁)နေရာကို ရောက်ရှိတဲ့အတွက် ဝမ်းသာ ဂုဏ်ယူနေခဲ့တဲ့ Ah Boy - Cele Gabar". Cele Gabar (in Burmese). 13 July 2020.
    7. "'အငွေ့အသက်များ'သီချင်းနဲ့JOOX မှာTOP (8) အထိရောက်ရှိခဲ့တဲ့အဆိုတော်Ah Boy - myanmaplatform news". Myanma Platform (in Burmese). 25 June 2020.
    8. "Ah Boy နဲ့ ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချိုရဲ့ "အငွေ့အသက်များ" သီချင်း JOOX 2020 Popular ဆုရရှိ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 6 January 2021.
    9. "ဇနီးအတွက် ချစ်သက်တမ်း ၁၅၀၀ ပြည့် သီချင်းလက်ဆောင် ပေးခဲ့တဲ့ Ah Boy". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 11 November 2020.
    10. "အာဘွိုင်း … စီးပွားရေးပဲ လုပ်တော့မယ်". The Irrawaddy. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
    11. "အိမ်ထောင်ကွဲဖူးတဲ့ လူတစ်ယောက်မှာ အချစ်သစ် မတွေ့ရဖူးလို့ ဘယ်ဥပဒေမှာမှ ပြဋ္ဌာန်းမထားပါဘူး အာဘွိုင်း". Yatanarpon (in Burmese). Retrieved 12 October 2017.
    12. "အောက်ဆီဂျင် လိုအပ်နေတဲ့ ပြည်သူတွေအတွက် သတင်းကောင်း မျှဝေခဲ့တဲ့ Ah Boy". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 15 July 2021.
    13. "San Yati Moe Myint Falls in Love with Ah Boy". Myanmar Celebrity News. 24 June 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
    14. "ထိုင်းမှာ Pre wedding ရိုက်ကူးနေတဲ့ Ah-boy တို့စုံတွဲ". Shwe Mon (in Burmese). 26 September 2017. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
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