Aung Htet
Aung Htet အောင်ထက် | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Thet Zin Htay |
| Born | 17 August 1990 Demoso, Myanmar |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, Guitar |
Aung Htet (Burmese: အောင်ထက်, born Thet Zin Htay on 17 August 1990) is a Burmese singer and musician. In addition to singing, he plays the guitar and piano.[1] He gained popularity while competing on the first season of Eipmat Sone Yar-Yar That Pan (အိပ်မက်ဆုံရာ (ရာသက်ပန်)), a singing competition broadcast on Channel 7.[2][3] During the competition, he was well received by audiences for innovative compositions of well-known Burmese songs.[4] Aung Htet released his first album, Hey, Friend (ဟေ့...မိတ်ဆွေ) on 27 March 2016.[5]
Born in a village located Demoso, Kayah State, Burma (now Myanmar), Aung Htet was raised in Magwe Region.[4][2] He attended local monastic schools before moving to Yangon to complete his secondary education.[4]
Discography
[edit]- Hey, Helpmate (ဟေ့...မိတ်ဆွေ) (2016)[5]
- Nhit (နှစ်) (2017) )
- Flower Opened by Tear (မျက်ရည်နှင့် ပွင့်သောပန်း) (2016)[6]
Political activities
[edit]Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, he participated in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, he took part in protests, starting in February. He joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.
On 12 April 2021, warrants for him 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.[7][8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ ခင်ဆွေသက် (2016-05-27). "အနုပညာရှင်တစ်ယောက်ဆိုပေမယ့် ပုန်းလျှိုးကွယ်လျှိုး နေရတာမျိုး မကြိုက်တဲ့အကြောင်း ဖွင့်ဟလာတဲ့ အောင်ထက်". Trend Myanmar (in Burmese).
- ^ a b အိန္ဒြာ (25 July 2015). "အောင်ထက်ဒိုင်ယာရီ ထဲက ငါနဲ့ငါ့ရဲ့ တိုက်ပွဲခေါ်သံများ". နှင်းဆီဖြူဂျာနယ် (in Burmese).
- ^ "အိပ်မက်ဆုံရာ ရာသက်ပန် ပြိုင်ပွဲအပြီးတွင် ပရိသတ်အားပေးမှု များပြားခဲ့သူ Winner ဆုရှင် အောင်ထက်". Eleven News (in Burmese). 27 December 2015.
- ^ a b c နန္ဒာအော (12 August 2015). "အဆိုတော် အောင်ထက်၊ဖြစ်လာတဲ့ အောင်မြင်မှုရဲ့နောက်ကွယ်". Myanmar Times (in Burmese).
- ^ a b ဝေဝေနှင်း (25 November 2016). ""ဟေး…မိတ်ဆွေ " MTV ကို ရှစ်လနဲ့ ပရိသတ်လက်ထဲ အရောက်ပို့မယ့် အောင်ထက်". Mizzima (in Burmese).
- ^ ဖြူဖွေးသန့် (8 September 2016). "နားဆင်ရတော့မယ့် အောင်ထက်၊ သားဂန်းနဲ့ ဂျနေဗီတို့သုံးဦးရဲ့ စီးရီးသစ်". 7 Day News (in Burmese).
- ^ "Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation". Eleven. 3 April 2021.
- ^ "စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
- ^ "CDM လှုပ်ရှားသူ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို အာဏာပိုင်တွေ အရေးယူဖို့ကြေညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
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