Sophia Everest

Sophia Everest (Burmese: ဆိုဖီယာ အဲဗရက်စ်, also Sophia Everest Aurora; born Myat Su Khine on 30 April 1992) is a Burmese singer and actress. She gained recognition from competing in the first season of Myanmar Idol, a televised singing competition.[1][2][3]

Sophia Everest ဆိုဖီယာ အဲဗရက်စ်
Sophia Everest at Shwe FM Show, Novotel Yangon Max
Background information
Birth name	Myat Su Khine
Born	30 April 1992 Yangon, Myanmar
Genres	R&B Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer Actress
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2015–present

Early life and education

Sophia Everest was born on 30 April 1992 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the second daughter of three siblings, having an older sister and younger brother. She is a practicing Buddhist. She attended high school at Practising School Yangon Institute of Education and graduated in Biotechnology from Republic Polytechnic in 2014. Everest was interested in singing since childhood, participating in City FM singing contest, and winning first prize when she was 11 years old.[1][4][5]

Music career

2016: Competing in Myanmar Idol and recognition

Sophia performing for her 2nd solo "Nin Yae album" release show

Everest started her music career as a contestant in the first season of Myanmar Idol, a televised singing competition. In the Myanmar Idol Top 4 finalists contest week, she competed with Saw Lah Htaw Wah, M Zaw Rain and Ninzi May, performing Saung Oo Hlaing's songs and was placed in the top 4. After she competed in Season 1 of Myanmar Idol, she engaged in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar. She released her hit single "Crush On You" on 1 November 2016.[1][6]

2017–present: Solo debut and rising popularity

Everest launched her debut solo album "NVM" (Never Mind) on 26 February 2017.[7] The album was listed No. 4 at "The best seller top 10 album of 2017".[8] Her second solo album "Nint Yae" (နင့်ရဲ့), was released on 18 March 2018.[1][9][10]

Sophia is the first female artist to have more than one No.1 song on Major M Local Top 30 Chart. Her single "Stay Open", collaboration with Raymond, Diramore, and MØ & Diplo peaked at No.1 in 2018. In 2019, she released her single "Medusa", collaboration with Moe Htet (B+) and peaked at No.1 on Major M Local Top 30 Chart.

Acting career

2017: Film debut

Sophia Everest made her film debut with a leading role in the film Naung Bal Tot Mha Ma Mone (Never Hate Again), alongside actress Hsu Eaint San and actor Thu Riya. The film was directed by Mae Min Bon, and film released in October 2017. She then starred in her second film Nauk Kyaw Ka Dar, where she played the leading role with Thu Riya. The film released in November 2017.[1][11]

Brand Ambassadorships

Sophia was appointed as brand ambassador of Tuborg on 26 February 2018.[12]

Filmography

Film

• Naung Bal Tot Mha Ma Mone (နောင်ဘယ်တော့မှမမုန်း) (2017)
• Nauk Kyaw Ka Dar (နောက်ကျောကဓား) (2017)

Discography

Solo album

• NVM (Never Mind) (2017)
• Nint Yae (နင့်ရဲ့) (2018)

Singles

• Crush On You (2016)
• Poison (2018)
• Medusa (2019)

References

1. Tun Lin (2 June 2017). "NVM နဲ့ တာထွက်လှခဲ့တဲ့ Sophia Everest" (in Burmese). MODA Magazine. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
2. Zwe Nyan (7 September 2017). "အမျိုးသမီးအဆိုတော်လေးဦး ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်နေတဲ့ ဆိုဖီယာ" (in Burmese). 7Day News. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
3. "Myanmar Idol 2016". Yangon Life Media. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
4. Pyone Thinzar Ye (6 May 2017). "Career of Sophia". Digital Times. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
5. ပရိသတ်ချစ်တဲ့ အဆိုတော်ကောင်လေးနဲ့ ပရိသတ်ကို Suprises လုပ်မယ့် ဆိုဖီယာ. People (in Burmese). 15 December 2018. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017.
6. "R&B သီချင်းများနဲ့ Sophia Everest" (in Burmese). Yangon Life Media. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
7. "Sophia's NVM". Yangon Life Media. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
8. Yu Phyu Han (21 February 2017). "ဆိုဖီယာ ရဲ့ Never Mind တေးစီးရီး ထွက်မည်". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
9. "ဆိုဖီယာ ရဲ့ " နင့်ရဲ့ " တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေ ပရိုမိုးရှင်း မဟာဗန္ဓုလပန်းခြံတွင် ပြုလုပ်" (in Burmese). Myanmar Celebrity Media. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
10. "ဆိုဖီယာ ရဲ့ " နင့်ရဲ့ " တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေ ပရိုမိုးရှင်း မတ်(၁၈) ရက်ပြုလုပ်မည်" (in Burmese). Myanmar Celebrity Media. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
11. "ဆိုဖီယာ သရုပ်ဆောင်လုပ်တော့မှာလား" (in Burmese). Duwun. 27 December 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
12. Zaw Win Aung. "Sophia Everestရဲ့ဒုတိယမြောက်တေးစီး". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). Retrieved 6 June 2018.

External links

• Sophia Everest on Facebook