Billy La Min Aye (Burmese: ဘီလီလမင်းအေး, S'gaw Karen: ဘ့လံၤလၣ်မ့အ့; born 22 March 1995) is a Burmese singer-songwriter of ethnic Pa'O-Karen descent. She gained recognition from competing in the second season of Myanmar Idol and finishing as the runner-up. Billy released her debut album Perseverant Soul on 3 March 2018.[1][2]
Billy La Min Aye ဘီလီလမင်းအေး | |
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 Billy performs in a concert | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Billy La Min Aye |
| Born | 22 March 1995 Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar |
| Genres | Pop, R&B |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Instrument | Vocals • Piano |
| Years active | 2022–present |
Early life and education
editBilly La Min Aye was born on 22 March 1995 in Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar to ethnic Pa'O-Karen parent Khun Billy Shwe and his wife Thein Thein Aye. Her father is an ethnic Pa'O and her mother is an ethnic Karen. She is the eldest daughter of two siblings, having a younger sister. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 4 Taunggyi and graduated from Taunggyi University with a degree in English. She was interested in singing since childhood, the love of music was seeded in her when her father sent her to a Sunday school around the age of eight.[3][4][5]
Billy worked as a former private school teacher and taught four skills in English to young children at a private education center in Taunggyi.[3]
Music career
edit2017: Competing in Myanmar Idol and rising popularity
editBilly started out on her music career as a contestant in Season 2 of Myanmar Idol, a televised singing competition. In the Myanmar Idol grand final, she competed with Thar Nge. With the voting results of the whole country, Thar Nge became the winner, she was placed in 1st runner-up. Since winning the 1st runner-up in Myanmar Idol, she engaged in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar.[6]
2018–present: Solo debut and activities
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In 2018, Billy started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute her first solo album. She launched her debut solo album "Perseverant Soul" on 3 March 2018.[7]
Billy won the Shwe FM's 2018 "Most Requested Song Award" and Padamyar FM's 2018 "Most Requested Song Award" with "Tine Yin Thu Lay Kyun Ma", a song from her solo album.[7]
On 1 February 2019, she released a single song called "February" MV on her Facebook page which earned 1 M views within 24 hours. Billy performed in the ceremony of the 2018 Myanmar Academy Award on 23 March 2019 in Yangon.[8] Billy released her second solo album "Special One" on 19 May 2019.[9][10][11]
2020 activities
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In September 10,2020, she sang a political campaign song named "Aung Hlan Hlwint Myi NLD" with several artists.
2021 activities
editIn 2021, she did a protest with the artists against military coup.
Ambassadorships
editBilly was appointed as an ambassador of Japan Myanmar Culture in 2018.
Personal Life
editShe previously has a long term relationship for 6 years. She then went on to date a Norwegian ethnic Karen man for a few months and an had unofficial relationship with a Korean businessman.
Discography
editSolo albums
edit- Perseverant Soul (အရှုံးမပေးတဲ့ ဝိညာဉ်) (2018)
- Special One (2019)
Singles
edit- February (2019)
- Daddy (2019)
- The Joker (ft.Mee No) (2019)
- Nga Chit Thu Yae Mway Nay (2019)
- Yay San Lay San (2020)
- Wait (2020)
- Pyee Sone Mae Yat (2020)
References
edit- ^ "Perseverant Soul Album by Billy La Min Aye". Yangon Life. 1 March 2018.
- ^ Thet, Khin Swe (28 January 2018). "တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေအတွက် စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့ ဘီလီလမင်းအေး". 7Day News (in Burmese).
- ^ a b ""အတွဲသီချင်းတွေ ဆိုရတာ၊ ဖက်ရတာ မိဘတွေရှေ့မှာ မျက်နှာပူတယ်"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ ဘီလီလမင်းအေး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 7 March 2019.
- ^ "ပရိသတ်နဲ့အတူ ပရဟိတအလှူ ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဘီလီလမင်းအေး". 7Day News (in Burmese). 27 April 2017.
- ^ "ဘီလီလမင်းအေး သီချင်းအကောင်းဆုံး ဆိုပြနိုင်တဲ့ သီချင်း ဗီဒီယိုကို ဆုချီးမြှင့်မည်". Kumudra (in Burmese). 16 March 2018.
- ^ Thet, Khin Swe (1 August 2018). "အချစ်ရေးမစဉ်းစားသေးတဲ့ ဘီလီလမင်းအေး". 7Day News (in Burmese).
- ^ a b "သည်းခံစိတ်ဖြင့် ရှေ့ဆက်ခဲ့သူ ဘီလီလမင်းအေး". Mizzima (in Burmese). 24 May 2017.
- ^ Poe, Chit (25 March 2019). "အကယ်ဒမီ စင်မြင့်ထက်မှာ သီချင်း သီဆိုခွင့်ရတဲ့ Myanmar Idol အဆိုရှင်များ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
- ^ Myint, Khin Lay (15 May 2019). "ဘီလီလမင်းအေး ရဲ့ Special One". Yangon Life (in Burmese).
- ^ "Billy လမင်းအေး ရဲ့ "Special One" တေးစီးရီး စာနယ်ဇင်း မိတ်ဆက်ပွဲ". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 12 May 2019.
- ^ Han, Yu Phyu (12 July 2019). "ပြန်ဆိုတေး အခွေထွက်ပြီး ဝေဖန်မှုဒဏ် ခံနိုင်ပါ့မလား ဆိုတဲ့ စိတ်ဖြစ်မိတဲ့ ဘီလီလမင်းအေး" (in Burmese). No. The Irrawaddy.