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Bobby Soxer (singer)

In this Burmese name, the given name is Bobby Soxer. There is no family name.

Bobby Soxer also known as Htet Htet (Burmese: ထက်ထက်, born Htet Htet Aung; 22 May 1993), is a Burmese singer, songwriter, and actress. She is considered one of the pioneering female hip-hop vocalists in Myanmar and has earned the title of "Myanmar's Hip Hop Queen."[1][2][3][4][5]

Bobby Soxer
Bobby Soxer is performing in a concert
Bobby Soxer is performing in a concert
Background information
Birth nameHtet Htet Aung
Born (1993-05-22) 22 May 1993 (age 31)
Yangon, Myanmar
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, rapper, actress
InstrumentVocals
Years active2006–present

Early life and education

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Bobby Soxer was born on 22 May 1993 in Yangon, Myanmar to parents Aung Zaw Lin, a trader, and his wife Moe Theingi. She is the youngest daughter of two siblings, having an older brother, Soe Lin Phyo, a model. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon and graduated from the National Management College, Myanmar.[6]

Music career

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Bobby Soxer performs in a concert at the Myawsinkyun, Yangon

Bobby began her music journey in 2006, releasing underground hip-hop tracks before achieving her breakthrough. She garnered recognition at the age of 13 for her collaboration with R&B singer Ye Lay on the track "Do Not Want To Say Good Bye". However, it was her hit song "Pwe" that catapulted her to fame in the music industry, earning her initial recognition from her fans.[1][7]

Bobby released the album "Done Pyan" (Rocket) in collaboration with her partner Hlwan Paing on November 21, 2011.[8] This album garnered the "Best Music Album Award" from both Shwe FM and City FM. Additionally, they generously donated 1 million Myanmar kyats from the proceeds of a gold prize earned for the Rocket album to support orphan children through the Thu Kha Yike Myone charity organization. Since the release of this duet album, Bobby participated in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and numerous concerts across Myanmar. Simultaneously, she collaborated on numerous songs with Hlwan Paing and artists from the Rock$tar group.[7]

Bobby collaborated with Hlwan Paing and Eaint Chit on the song "Ko Ko", which went on to win the "Best Music Award" at the Shwe FM Awards.[9] Bobby collaborated with hip-hop artist Sai Sai Kham Leng and Coca-Cola Myanmar to release a song for the 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign titled "The World is Ours".[10]

 
Bobby Soxer is performing in a concert at the Pyin Oo Lwin Flower Festival in 2018

Bobby started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. She launched her debut solo album "#21" on 8 February 2015. The follow-up video album was released in July 2015.[11] Bobby embarked on a journey to produce and distribute her solo album, culminating in the release of her debut solo album "#21" on February 8, 2015. Following this success, the follow-up video album was released in July 2015. Bobby is widely regarded as one of the most commercially successful Burmese female singers and has earned the title of "Myanmar's Hip Hop Queen".[12]

Acting career

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Bobby Soxer has been involved in presenting and acting in a travel documentary series titled Let's Go, alongside other artists such as Hlwan Paing, Bunny Phyoe, Kyaw Htut Swe, Nann Thuzar, and Nan Myat Phyo Thin.[13][14][15] She made her acting debut with a leading role in the 2015 film Ar Shwee Tae Ko Ko, where she starred alongside Lu Min.[16][17]

Brand Ambassadorships

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Bobby Soxer was appointed as a brand ambassador of Coca-Cola on 26 July 2013[3] and she participated in Open Happiness marketing campaign which is distributing new style of Coca-Cola bottles. She was also brand ambassador of Samsung Mobile Myanmar,[4] SPY Wine Cooler and Ve Ve.[18]

Filmography

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Film

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  • Ar Shwee Tae Ko Ko (အာရွှီးတဲ့ကိုကို) (2015)

Discography

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Solo albums

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Duo albums

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  • Done Pyan (ဒုံးပျံ) (2011)[20]

Personal life

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Bobby Soxer is in a relationship with Burmese hip hop singer Hlwan Paing since 2009.[21] However, she declared on Facebook at the end of 2022 that their relationship had come to an end.

References

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  1. ^ a b Yu Mon Kyaw (22 May 2018). "Rap သီချင်းတွေနဲ့ ဂီတလမ်းမှာ သရဖူဆောင်းနေဆဲ ထက်ထက် (ခ) Bobby Soxer". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "Myanmar hip hop queen Bobby Soxer pelted with rocks during Irrawaddy show". Coconuts Yangon. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Artists: Sai Sai Kham & Bobby Soxer/Bobby Soxer". Coca-Cola. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Samsung Brand Ambassador အဆိုတော် Bobby Soxer နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Digital Times (in Burmese). 22 June 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  5. ^ "အဆိုတော် Bobby Soxer အင်တာဗျူး". The Irrawaddy Blog (in Burmese). 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Myanmar Hip Hop Singer: Bobby Soxer". myanmarsinger. 1 July 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  7. ^ a b "ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် ယုံကြည်မှုလွန်ကဲတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". The Irrawaddy Blog (in Burmese). 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Bobby Soxer to release solo album next month". Eleven Media Group. 2 February 2015. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Popular Singer Couple Hlwan Paing And Bobby Soxer". Myanmar Celebrities. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  10. ^ "Coca-Cola to Debut International Music Collaboration, Launch 2014 "Happiness Journey"". Myanmar Business Today. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  11. ^ "Bobby Soxer # 21 Album Press". Yangon Life. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  12. ^ "'21' Musice Videoကို Julyလမှာ ဖြန့်ချိတော့မည့် Bobby Soxer". Popular Journal. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  13. ^ "Press conference on Let's Go Program – TODAY". today-myanmar.com. 13 March 2014. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  14. ^ "The best of Malaysia comes alive in 'Let's Go' – Eleven Myanmar". elevenmyanmar.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  15. ^ "Myanmar TV stars to produce traveling programs in China". China Daily. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  16. ^ "'အာရွှီးတဲ့ကိုကို'ဇာတ်ကားမှာ စိတ်တိုင်းမကျတာတွေ များခဲ့တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". 7Day News (in Burmese). 26 March 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  17. ^ "စိတ်ကြိုက်ကာရိုက်တာနဲ့ ဇာတ်ကားရိုက်ဖို့ ကမ်းလှမ်းရင် လက်ခံမယ်ဆိုတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". 7Day News (in Burmese). 16 July 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  18. ^ "ပရိသတ်နဲ့အတူ ညစာစားခဲ့တဲ့ စိုင်းစိုင်းနဲ့ Bobby Soxer". Kamayut Media. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  19. ^ "(၂၁) နှစ်ပြည့် Bobby Soxer ရဲ့ 21". 7Day News (in Burmese). 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  20. ^ Album Done Pyan Music Album
  21. ^ "ချစ်သူသက်တမ်း (၈) နှစ်ပြည့်သွားတဲ့ Hlwan Paing နဲ့ Bobby Soxer". Shwe Mom (in Burmese). 19 May 2017. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
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