Bobby Soxer (singer)

Bobby Soxer also Htet Htet (Burmese: ထက်ထက်; born Htet Htet Aung on 22 May 1993) is a Burmese singer, songwriter, composer, actress and fashion model. She is considered one of the early female hip-hop vocalists in Myanmar and has been dubbed as the "Myanmar's Hip Hop Queen".[1][2][3][4][5]

Bobby Soxer
Bobby Soxer is performing in a concert
Background information
Birth nameHtet Htet Aung
Born (1993-05-22) 22 May 1993
Yangon, Myanmar
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, rapper, actress
InstrumentsVocals
Years active2006–present
Associated actsHlwan Paing

Early life and education

Bobby Soxer was born on 22 May 1993 in Yangon, Myanmar to parents Aung Zaw Lin, a trader and his wife Moe Theingi. She is the youngest daughter of two siblings, having an elder brother Soe Lin Phyo, a model. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon and graduated from the National Management College, Myanmar.[6]

Music career

2006–2010: Career beginnings and recognition
Bobby Soxer performs in a concert at the Myawsinkyun, Yangon

Bobby began her music career in 2006. She released underground hip-hop songs since before she got her big break. She gained recognition from singing together with R&B singer Ye Lay in a song "Do Not Want To Say Good Bye" at her age 13. She rose to fame in music industry with her hit song "Pwe". Since then, she gained the first recognition from her fans.[1][7]

2011–2014: Collaborative success

Bobby released an album "Done Pyan" (Rocket) which was a duo album with Hlwan Paing on 21 November 2011.[8] This album won the "Best Music Album Award", awarded by both Shwe FM and City FM. They donated 1 million Myanmar Kyats from selling gained gold prize for Rocket album to orphan children from Thu Kha Yike Myone charity organization. Since she has released a duet album, she engaged in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar. At the same time, she also sang a lot of songs, cooperating with Hlwan Paing and artists from Rock$tar group.[7]

Booby sang a song "Ko Ko", together with Hlwan Paing and Eaint Chit, that song won the "Best Music Award" at the Shwe FM Awards.[9] Bobby collaborated with local hip-hop artist Sai Sai Kham Leng and Coca-Cola Myanmar to launch a song for the 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign, "The World is Ours".[10]

2015–present: Solo debut and rising popularity
Bobby Soxer is performing in a concert at the Pyin Oo Lwin Flower Festival in 2018

Bobby started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. She launched her debut solo album "#21" on 8 February 2015. The follow-up video album was released in July 2015.[11] Bobby is considered one of the most commercially successful Burmese female singer and has been dubbed as the "Myanmar's Hip Hop Queen".[12]

Acting career

Bobby Soxer has been presenting and acting in a travel documentary called Let's Go together with other artists, Hlwan Paing, Bunny Phyoe, Kyaw Htut Swe, Nan Thu Zar and Nan Myat Phyo Thin.[13][14][15]

She made her acting debut with a leading role in the film Ar Shwee Tae Ko Ko, alongside Lu Min and directed by Nyunt Myanmar Nyi Nyi Aung, released in March 2015.[16][17]

Brand Ambassadorships

Bobby Soxer was appointed as a brand ambassador of Coca-Cola in 26 July 2013[3] and she participated in Open Happiness marketing campaign which is distributing new style of Coca-Cola bottles. She was also brand ambassador of Samsung Mobile Myanmar,[4] SPY Wine Cooler and Ve Ve.[18]

Filmography

Film
  • Ar Shwee Tae Ko Ko (အာရွှီးတဲ့ကိုကို) (2015)

Discography

Solo albums

Duo albums
  • Done Pyan (ဒုံးပျံ) (2011)[20]

Personal life

Bobby Soxer is in a relationship with Burmese hip hop singer Hlwan Paing since 2009.[21]

References
  1. Yu Mon Kyaw (22 May 2018). "Rap သီချင်းတွေနဲ့ ဂီတလမ်းမှာ သရဖူဆောင်းနေဆဲ ထက်ထက် (ခ) Bobby Soxer". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  2. "Myanmar hip hop queen Bobby Soxer pelted with rocks during Irrawaddy show". Coconuts Yangon. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. "Artists: Sai Sai Kham & Bobby Soxer/Bobby Soxer". Coca-Cola. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  4. "Samsung Brand Ambassador အဆိုတော် Bobby Soxer နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Digital Times (in Burmese). 22 June 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  5. "အဆိုတော် Bobby Soxer အင်တာဗျူး". The Irrawaddy Blog (in Burmese). 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  6. "Myanmar Hip Hop Singer: Bobby Soxer". myanmarsinger. 1 July 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  7. "ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် ယုံကြည်မှုလွန်ကဲတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". The Irrawaddy Blog (in Burmese). 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  8. "Bobby Soxer to release solo album next month". Eleven Media Group. 2 February 2015. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  9. "Popular Singer Couple Hlwan Paing And Bobby Soxer". Myanmar Celebrities. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  10. "Coca-Cola to Debut International Music Collaboration, Launch 2014 "Happiness Journey"". Myanmar Business Today. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  11. "Bobby Soxer # 21 Album Press". Yangon Life. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  12. "'21' Musice Videoကို Julyလမှာ ဖြန့်ချိတော့မည့် Bobby Soxer". Popular Journal. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  13. "Press conference on Let's Go Program – TODAY". today-myanmar.com. 13 March 2014. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  14. "The best of Malaysia comes alive in 'Let's Go' – Eleven Myanmar". elevenmyanmar.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  15. "Myanmar TV stars to produce traveling programs in China". China Daily. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  16. "'အာရွှီးတဲ့ကိုကို'ဇာတ်ကားမှာ စိတ်တိုင်းမကျတာတွေ များခဲ့တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". 7Day News (in Burmese). 26 March 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  17. "စိတ်ကြိုက်ကာရိုက်တာနဲ့ ဇာတ်ကားရိုက်ဖို့ ကမ်းလှမ်းရင် လက်ခံမယ်ဆိုတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". 7Day News (in Burmese). 16 July 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  18. "ပရိသတ်နဲ့အတူ ညစာစားခဲ့တဲ့ စိုင်းစိုင်းနဲ့ Bobby Soxer". Kamayut Media. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  19. "(၂၁) နှစ်ပြည့် Bobby Soxer ရဲ့ 21". 7Day News (in Burmese). 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  20. Album Done Pyan Music Album
  21. "ချစ်သူသက်တမ်း (၈) နှစ်ပြည့်သွားတဲ့ Hlwan Paing နဲ့ Bobby Soxer". Shwe Mom (in Burmese). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
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