J Nyi Nyi
J Nyi Nyi ဂျေညီညီ | |
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| Born | 12 December 1953 Wakema, Burma (now Myanmar) |
| Died | 31 March 2025 (aged 71) Yangon, Myanmar |
| Genres | Pop, traditional Burmese, contemporary |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, musician |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, keyboard, ukulele |
| Years active | 1970s–2025 |
J Nyi Nyi (Burmese: ဂျေညီညီ; pronounced [dʑè ɲì ɲì]; 12 December 1953 – 31 March 2025) was a Burmese singer and musician renowned for his significant contributions to Myanmar's pop music scene. Active from the 1970s until his death in 2025, he played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary Burmese pop music by blending traditional sounds with modern influences. Over his decades-long career, he released multiple acclaimed albums and remained a prominent figure in Myanmar's music industry.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]J Nyi Nyi was born on 12 December 1953 in Wakema, Burma (now Myanmar). He developed a passion for music early in life and pursued formal education in the arts and music, which honed his skills as a vocalist and songwriter.[3][4]
Career
[edit]J Nyi Nyi began his musical journey in the 1970s, quickly establishing himself as a leading figure in Myanmar's pop music scene. His distinctive vocal style and versatility garnered widespread acclaim. In the 1980s, he was instrumental in modernizing Burmese pop music by integrating traditional Burmese sounds with contemporary pop elements, appealing to a broad audience.[5][6]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]- မှတ်တိုင်များ (1992)
- A Yate Ka Lay (2002)
Singles
[edit]- Lu Bawa (2024)
Personal life
[edit]J Nyi Nyi married in 1999 and resided in Yangon, Myanmar, until his death.
Death
[edit]J Nyi Nyi died on 31 March 2025 at the age of 71. The cause of death remains undisclosed.[7][8]
Legacy
[edit]J Nyi Nyi is remembered as a significant figure in Burmese music. His unique vocal style and ability to blend contemporary pop with traditional Burmese elements established him as a pioneer of modern Burmese music, inspiring numerous emerging artists in Myanmar.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "ဝါရင့်အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီကွယ်လွန်". အလွမ်းကဖီး အပါအဝင် အောင်မြင်တဲ့ တေးသီချင်းများစွာနဲ့ မြန်မာ့ ဂီတလောကမှာ ထင်ရှားတဲ့ ဝါရင့် အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီဟာ မတ် ၃၁ ရက် ဒီကနေ့မနက်ပိုင်းမှာ ကွယ်လွန်သွားခဲ့ပြီလို့ သိရပါတယ်။ဒီအကြောင်းနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီ…. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ "အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ယနေ့မနက်တွင် ကွယ်လွန်". NP News. 31 March 2025. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ "အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ကွယ်လွန်". Tachileik News Agency (in Burmese). Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ "အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ကွယ်လွန်". Mizzima News. 31 March 2025.
- ^ "တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ ရွမ္းရိုးမကြင္းတြင္ သီတင္းကၽြတ္ပြဲေတာ္အျဖစ္ က်င္းပမည့္ ခ်စ္စြမ္းသာ ဇာတ္သဘင္၏ ေနာက္ဆံုးေန႔အား ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့ေရး ရန္ပံုေငြပြဲအျဖစ္ ျပဳလုပ္မည္". Tachileik News Agency (in Burmese). Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ "တာခ်ီလိတ္ရဲ႕ ပထမဆံုး Tachileik Countdown Festival အတြက္ ရွမ္းရိုးမကြင္းမွာ လက္မွတ္မ်ားေရာင္းေနပါၿပီ". Tachileik News Agency (in Burmese). Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ "အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ယနေ့မနက်တွင် ကွယ်လွန်". npnewsmm.com. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ "ဝါရင့်အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီကွယ်လွန်". အလွမ်းကဖီး အပါအဝင် အောင်မြင်တဲ့ တေးသီချင်းများစွာနဲ့ မြန်မာ့ ဂီတလောကမှာ ထင်ရှားတဲ့ ဝါရင့် အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီဟာ မတ် ၃၁ ရက် ဒီကနေ့မနက်ပိုင်းမှာ ကွယ်လွန်သွားခဲ့ပြီလို့ သိရပါတယ်။ဒီအကြောင်းနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီ…. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
- ^ "အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ကွယ်လွန်". Tachileik News Agency (in Burmese). Retrieved 31 March 2025.