Thar Nge

Thar Nge (Burmese: သားငယ်; born Zaw Win Htun on 23 March 1992) is a Burmese singer of ethnic Rakhine descent. He gained national attention for winning the second season of Myanmar Idol.[1][2][3][4] Thar Nge released his debut album Lan Ka Lay on 2 February 2018.

In this Burmese name, the given name is Thar Nge. There is no family name.
Thar Nge
သားငယ်
Background information
Birth nameZaw Win Htun
Born (1992-03-23) 23 March 1992
Manaung, Rakhine State, Myanmar
GenresRock, Pop, Pop rock
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)Vocals • Guitar
Years active2017–present

Early life

Thar Nge was born on 23 March 1992 in Manaung, Rakhine State, and is an ethnic Rakhine from Rakhine State.[5][6] Thar Nge and his wife live in Pyin Oo Lwin and worked as a fritter hawker for his living before he competed in Myanmar Idol.[7][8][9]

Career

2017: Competing in Myanmar Idol and rising popularity

Thar Nge started out on his music career in participated as a contestant in Myanmar Idol, a televised singing competition. In the Myanmar Idol final, he competed with Billy La Min Aye with three songs. With the voting results of the whole country, he became the winner of the Season 2 of Myanmar Idol.[10] Since winning in Myanmar Idol, he engaged in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar.[11][12][13]

2018–present: Solo debut and activities

Thar Nge started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. He launched his debut solo album Lan Galay (လမ်းကလေး) on 2 February 2018.[14][15]

Political activities

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Thar Nge was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. On 5 April 2021, warrants for his arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, he was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.[16][17]

Discography

Solo albums
  • Lan Ka Lay (လမ်းကလေး) (2018)

References
  1. YouTube Myanmar Idol Season2 Winner = Thar Nge
  2. "Thar Nge and Billy Lamin Aye Interview သားငယ်နဲ့ဘီလီလမင်းအေး အင်တာဗျူး". 8day Journal (in Burmese). 23 March 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  3. "Myanmar Idol winner to be announced on March 25". Eleven Media Group. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  4. "Myanmar's population has been riveted by the latest season of Myanmar Idol". Frontier Myanmar. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  5. "နေတိုးမှသည် သားငယ်ဆီသို့ ဝတီ မေဃ လှပဋ္ဌာနေ မာန်အောင်မြေ". Sunthit Myanmar (in Burmese). 30 March 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  6. "Myanmar Idol သားငယ် သို့မဟုတ် "ဝ" ရှိသော လူငယ်လေး". Sunthit Myanmar (in Burmese). 26 March 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  7. Nyo Me (12 December 2017). "A taste for fame". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  8. "ကျန်တဲ့ဆိုင်တွေကိုလည်း မျှပြီးအားပေးကြပါလို့ ပရိုမိုးရှင်းဆင်းခဲ့တဲ့ -အကြော်သည် သားငယ်". Sunday Journal (in Burmese). 11 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  9. Auntymay Team ဇနီးသည်နဲ့အတူ ပျော်ပျော်ကြီး အကြော်ကြော်နေတဲ့ သားငယ်
  10. "Myanmar Idol Season 2 ရဲ့winner သားငယ်ရရှိ" (in Burmese). MCN TV. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  11. "မြန်မာအိုင်ဒေါလ် အဆိုရှင် သားငယ် တစ်ကိုယ်တော် အခွေ မကြာခင်ထွက်ရှိမည်". Kumudra Journal (in Burmese). 23 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  12. "Myanmar Idol Season-2 Winner". The Chin Land Post. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  13. "Crown Magazine interview with Thar Nge". Crown Magazine. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  14. "Lan Ka Lay by Thar Nge". Yangon Life. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  15. "Myanmar Idol Season 2 Winner သားငယ်၏ Solo Album အတွက် ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစဉ် သီချင်းများ ပေးပို့ရန် ဖိတ်ခေါ့်ရန် ဖိတ်ခေါ်". Yangon Media (in Burmese). 8 May 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  16. "ရုပ်ရှင်သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ၊ အဆိုတော် သားငယ်နှင့် ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 5 April 2021.
  17. "အမှန်တရားဘက်မှာ ရပ်တည်ခဲ့တဲ့အတွက် ဂုဏ်ယူမဆုံးဖြစ်ကြောင်း မြတ်နိုးအေး ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 6 April 2021.
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