ChanMyae MgCho (Burmese: ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို; born 20 September 1999) is a Burmese singer. She rose to prominence following her finish as the runner-up on the third season of Myanmar Idol.[1][2]
ChanMyae MgCho ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို | |
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![]() Mg Cho performing during her music concert in March 2019 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | ChanMyae MgCho |
Born | Yangon, Myanmar | 20 September 1999
Genres | Pop, pop rock |
Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
Instrument | Vocals • guitar |
Years active | 2018–present |
Early life and education
editChanMyae MgCho was born on 20 September 1999 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the youngest daughter of Maung Maung Cho, a sailor and his wife Ei Ei, a singer who was famous around 1990s. She has an elder brother, Thura MgCho, is an actor. She graduated high school at Practising School Yangon Institute of Education. She admitted to Dagon University majoring Law subject and currently, she is an undergraduate.[3]
Career
editCareer beginning
editMgCho began singing at her age ten. She sang covered songs inserting with her own lyrics. She created her own short video clips, sang covered songs on social media. She has street singing experience when she visited to Singapore, in 2015. She participated in school events and sang songs for her teachers and friends.[3]
In 2017, she sang a song together with her mom as her very first duet song on stage at her age of 18. Then, she started her first step of challenging which is Myanmar Idol Season 3 competition.[3]
2018: Competing in Myanmar Idol and rising popularity
editIn May 2018, she competed in the third season of Myanmar Idol and finally, she was selected in Top 11 finalists. And also faced many pressures from that competition. She did her best and after progressing to the Grand Final, she was unable to participate due to illness.[4][5] However, she couldn't participate in Grand Final, she came and sang the song "Tomorrow For You", for her fans and that song became hit one. End of the event, she was awarded first runner up of the Myanmar Idol Season 3.[6]
In December 2018, she received Celebrity Fashion Award at the Shwe FM 9th Anniversary.[7]
2019–present: Solo activities
editIn 2019, she released her first single "Eaint Mat" (Dream) on 1 March 2019[8] that became most popular among the JOOX listeners finally hit the record of first position and maintain the 1-100 position till noand started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute her first solo album.[9]
She launched her debut solo album "Eleven" on 22 December 2019.[10][11]
In 2020, she released her first MTV for 2020," သင့်အတွက်မနက်ဖြန် " (Tomorrow for you) on 20 May 2020 [12]
Political activities
editFollowing the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, ChanMyae MgCho was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, she has taken part in protests since February. She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[13]
On 2 April 2021, warrants for her 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, she 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.[14][15][16][17]
Discography
editSolo albums
edit- Eleven (2019)
Singles
edit- Eaint Mat (2019)
- Falling (2020)
Duet songs
edit- We are one (2018 - New year Count Down song) with Y3IIO
- A Chit Shi Taw Nay Swal Myar (2019) with Myo Kyawt Myaing
- Eain Pyan Chain (2020) with PAST12 an Daniel Saw
- Ta Mee Chawt Tay (2020) with Ei Ei
- A Nghwe A Thet Myar (7/6/2020)with Ah Boy
Award
edit- Joox Top 10 Popular Song Award for 2020
References
edit- ^ Han, Yu Phyu (12 August 2018). "ထူးထူးခြားခြားတဦးတည်းပြိုင်ပြီး Winner ဖြစ်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ Myanmar Idol Season 3 ရဲ့ Final ည". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
- ^ Aung, Hnin Hnin (11 August 2018). "ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချိုလာရောက် မယှဉ်ပြိုင်သဖြင့် Myanmar Idol Season 3 Winner ဆု ဖြိုးမြတ်အောင် ရရှိ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ a b c "အားပေးရကျိုးနပ်အောင် ကြိုးစားမယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို". Mizzima (in Burmese). 17 January 2019.
- ^ "Myanmar Idol Finalist ပြိုင်ပွဲဝင် ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို ကျန်းမာရေး အခြေအနေကြောင့် ဆေးကုသမှု ခံယူရ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 9 August 2018.
- ^ Aung, Hnin Hnin (10 August 2018). "ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို ကျန်းမာရေး ပြန်လည်သက်သာလာ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese).
- ^ "သီချင်းခွေထုတ်ဖို့အမေနဲ့တိုင်ပင်နေတုန်းပာ ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). 21 August 2018.
- ^ Poe, Chit (20 December 2018). "အပျိုကြီးလုပ်ဖို့ စဉ်းစားထားတဲ့ ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
- ^ "Myanmar Idol တေးသံရှင် ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချိုရဲ့ သီချင်းသစ်-အိပ်မက် (ရုပ်သံ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 1 March 2019.
- ^ Nyan, Zwe (1 March 2019). "ပထမဆုံးတစ်ကိုယ်တော်သီချင်းအတွက် စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့ ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို". 7Day News (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ "ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို၏ ELEVEN တေးစီးရီးသစ် မိတ်ဆက်(ဓာတ်ပုံ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 23 December 2019.
- ^ "မြန်မာအိုင်ဒေါတေးသံရှင် ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချို တကိုယ်တော် အယ်လ်ဘမ်ထွက်မည်". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 12 December 2019.
- ^ "ချမ်းမြေ့မောင်ချိုရဲ့ MTV သီချင်းသစ်-Tomorrow For You(ရုပ်သံ)". YouTube. 20 May 2020.
- ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
- ^ "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 လႈပ္ရွားသူ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြ အေရးယူဖုိ႔ေၾကညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
- ^ "မင်းမော်ကွန်း၊ အိန္ဒြာကျော်ဇင်၊ Rဇာနည်နှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု အပါအဝင် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.