M Zaw Rain
M Zaw Rain (Burmese: အမ်ဇော်ရိန်; born 20 January 1993) is a Burmese singer-songwriter of ethnic Kachin descent. He rose to prominence following his finish as the runner-up on the first season of Myanmar Idol.[1][2] M Zaw Rain released his debut album Sate (Mind) on 15 December 2016.[3][4]
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Background information | |
Birth name | M Zaw Rain |
Born | Pyinmana, Myanmar | 20 January 1993
Genres | Pop |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
Instruments | Vocals • Piano • Guitar |
Years active | 2015–present |
Associated acts | Sophia Everest, Ninzi May |
Website | M Zaw Rain on Facebook |
Early life and education
M Zaw Rain was born on 20 January 1993 in Pyinmana, Myanmar to parents M Zaw Kun and Naw Christabal of an ethnic family. His father is Kachin and mother is Karen. He is the youngest son of four siblings. He graduated in Civil engineering from Technological University, Yamethin.[2][5]
Career
M Zaw Rain started out on his music career as a contestant in Myanmar Idol, a televised singing competition. In Myanmar Idol grand final, he competed with Saw Lah Htaw Wah and Ninzi May. With the voting results of the whole country, Saw Lah Htaw Wah became the winner, and he finished as 1st runner-up. After he has competed in Myanmar Idol, performed in many concerts and he started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. He launched his debut solo album "Sate" on 15 December 2016.[6][2][7][8][9]
In June 2017, Miss Myanmar USA Pageant Event, Tour USA 2017 concert invited M Zaw Rain and other ethnic artists, Sai Sai Kham Leng, Sone Thin Par, Mi Mon Mon Thike, Billy Lamin Aye and Saw Lah Htaw Wah. They performed at the Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco.[10][11]
M Zaw Rain gained "Award of the 2016 demanding most song from the released album of Myanmar Idol Season 1" at the Shwe FM 7th Anniversary Ceremony.[12][13][14]
Discography
Solo albums
- Sate (စိတ်) (2016)[15]
References
- "Music Diary M ဇော်ရိန်". Yati Magazine (in Burmese). 10 June 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "Interview-လေးလလောက်နဲ့(စိတ်)ဆိုတဲ့ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အယ်လ်ဘမ်ထွက်နိုင်အောင်ကြိုးစားခဲ့တဲ့ Mဇော်ရိန်". iBest Magazine (in Burmese). 8 February 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "ပရိသတ်တွေတောင်းဆိုနေလို့ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေထုတ်မယ့် Mဇော်ရိန်". 7Day News. 9 December 2016.
- "M ဇော်ရိန် ရဲ့ စိတ်". Kumudra. 8 December 2016.
- "ပြိုင်ပွဲအသေးလေးတွေ ဝင်ပြိုင်ရင်းနဲ့ Amenican Idol ကို အားကျလို့ Myanmar Idol ဝင်ပြိုင်ဖြစ်သွား တာပါ Mဇော်ရိန်". Media7. 27 February 2017.
- "စိတ် လို့ဆိုတဲ့ M ဇော်ရိန်". Yangon Life. 12 December 2016.
- "Myanmar Idol Grand Final အတွက် အမ်ဇော်ရိန်၊ စောလားထော်ဝါး၊ နင်ဇီမေ တို့ကို ရွေးချယ်". Yangon Media Group (in Burmese). 3 April 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "Mဇော်ရိန် ရဲ့ စိတ် Album". Kumudra News Journal. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "M Zaw Rain-Interview". People. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "တိုင်းရင်းသားအဆိုတော်များအမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုမှ ဖိတ်ကြားမည်". Time Ayeyar (in Burmese). Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံရှိ မြို့ကြီးများသို့ တေးသီချင်းများ သွားရောက်ဖျော်ဖြေမည်". Kanbawza Tai News Journal (in Burmese). 12 April 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "ရွှေအက်ဖ်အမ် ဂီတဆုပေးပွဲအခမ်းအနား". Time Ayeyar (in Burmese). Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- "M Zaw Rain – Shwe FM Interview part 1". Retrieved 22 September 2017 – via YouTube.
- "M Zaw Rain – Shwe FM Interview part 2". Retrieved 22 September 2017 – via YouTube.
- "Mဇော်ရိန်ရဲ့တစ်ကိုယ်တော် တေးစီးရီးကိုမိတ်ဆက်". Mizzima (in Burmese). Retrieved 22 September 2017.