ALFA is a Myanmar Pop boy band formed by JBJ entertainment in 2019. The group has been strongly influenced by the Korean wave and popularity of K-pop following myanmar.[1] ALFA has built up a strong local following in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capgroup[1][2] The Group is originally a seven-piece group, Kira & Bo Bo left the group in october 31, 2021.

ALFA
OriginMyanmar
GenresBurmese pop
Years active2019 (2019)–present
LabelsJBJ Entertainment
Members
  • Jay
  • Adam
  • T Tant
  • Kinice
  • Min Khant
Past members
  • Kira
  • Bo Bo
WebsiteALFA on Facebook

The group debuted on 12 December 2019 with the single, "One N Only."[3][4] The group's members were selected by an entertainment company, JBJ Entertainment, which held open auditions the previous year in Yangon.[5] Two members, Jay and Adam were contestants in Galaxy Star, a singing competition organized by JBJ in 2017.[3] ALFA's fan base is dubbed the ALFAVERSE.[6]

Members

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  • Jay (ဇေလင်းထိုက်)
  • Adam (ဟိန်းဦးလွင်)
  • T Tant (တည်တံ့အောင်)
  • Kinice (ဟိန်းမင်းထိုက်)
  • Min Khant (မင်းခန့်ကျော်)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Myanmar has been obsessed with Korean culture for two decades and now, the wave is hitting". CNA. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  2. ^ "မြန်မာမိန်းကလေးပရိသတ်တွေသဲသဲလှုပ်အားပေးခြင်းကိုခံနေရတဲ့ ALFA အကအဖွဲ့သစ်". myanmaplatform news (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  3. ^ a b "Myanmar boy band ALPHA sends youths' hearts aflutter". The Myanmar Times. 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  4. ^ ""မိန်းကလေးပရိသတ်တွေရဲ့ သည်းသည်းလှုပ်အားပေးဝန်းရံခြင်းကိုရရှိဦးမယ့် မြန်မာယောက်ျားလေးအဆိုတော်အဖွဲ့အသစ် ALFA"". Lotaya (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  5. ^ "K-pop style boy band from Myanmar set to make dream debut". Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS). 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  6. ^ "Alfaverse တို့ရဲ့ အချစ်တော် ALFA Boy Band အဖွဲ့". Myanmar Celebrity (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-01-20.