Sophia Everest (Burmese: ဆိုဖီယာ အဲဗရက်စ်, also Sophia Everest Aurora; born Myat Su Khine on 30 April 1992) is a Burmese singer and actress. She gained recognition from competing in the first season of Myanmar Idol, a televised singing competition.[1][2][3]

Sophia Everest
ဆိုဖီယာ အဲဗရက်စ်
Sophia Everest at Shwe FM Show, Novotel Yangon Max
Background information
Birth nameMyat Su Khine
Born (1992-04-30) 30 April 1992 (age 32)
Yangon, Myanmar
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • Actress
InstrumentVocals
Years active2015–present

Early life and education

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Sophia Everest was born on 30 April 1992 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the second daughter of three siblings, having an older sister and younger brother. She is a practicing Buddhist. She attended high school at Practising School Yangon Institute of Education and graduated in Biotechnology from Republic Polytechnic in 2014. Everest was interested in singing since childhood, participating in City FM singing contest, and winning first prize when she was 11 years old.[1][4][5]

Music career

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2016: Competing in Myanmar Idol and recognition

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Sophia performing for her 2nd solo "Nin Yae album" release show

Everest started her music career as a contestant in the first season of Myanmar Idol, a televised singing competition. In the Myanmar Idol Top 5 finalists contest week, she competed with Saw Lah Htaw Wah, May Kyi, M Zaw Rain and Ninzi May, performing Saung Oo Hlaing's songs and was placed as 4th runner up. After she competed in Season 1 of Myanmar Idol, she engaged in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar. She released her hit single "Crush On You" on 1 November 2016.[1][6]

2017–present: Solo debut and rising popularity

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Everest launched her debut solo album "NVM" (Never Mind) on 26 February 2017.[7] The album was listed No. 4 at "The best seller top 10 album of 2017".[8] Her second solo album "Nint Yae" (နင့်ရဲ့), was released on 18 March 2018.[1][9][10]

Awards and nominations

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Artist Award Ceremony Year Nominated Works Category Result
Sophia Everest Major M Music Awards 2018 Nint Ye (နင့်ရဲ့) Best R&B Album Won
Sophia Everest & Sandy Myint Lwin Major M Music Awards 2018 I.D.F.C Best R&B Song Won
Sophia Everest & Sandy Myint Lwin Major M Music Awards 2018 I.D.F.C Best Collaboration Nominated
Sophia Everest, Double U & MHL Major M Music Awards 2018 Can't Get It Back Best Collaboration Nominated
Sophia Everest Major M Music Awards 2018 Nint Ye (နင့်ရဲ့) Album Of The Year Nominated
Sophia Everest, Double U & MHL Major M Music Awards 2018 Can't Get It Back Song Of The Year Nominated
Sophia Everest, Raymond, Diramore, & Diplo Major M Music Awards 2019 Stay Open Best Collaboration Won
Sophia Everest Major M Music Awards 2019 No Regret Top Artist Nominated
Sophia Everest Major M Music Awards 2019 Medusa Best R&B Performance Nominated
Sophia Everest Major M Music Awards 2020 Tell Me What To Do Best R&B Performance Nominated

Acting career

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2017: Film debut

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Sophia Everest made her film debut with a leading role in the film Naung Bal Tot Mha Ma Mone (Never Hate Again), alongside actress Hsu Eaint San and actor Thu Riya. The film was directed by Mae Min Bon, and film released in October 2017. She then starred in her second film Nauk Kyaw Ka Dar (Back Stab), where she played the leading role with Thu Riya and her fellow Myanmar Idol contestant May Kyi. The film released in November 2017.[1][11]

Brand ambassadorships

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Sophia was appointed as brand ambassador of Tuborg on 26 February 2018.[12]

Filmography

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Film

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  • Naung Bal Tot Mha Ma Mone (နောင်ဘယ်တော့မှမမုန်း) (2017)
  • Nauk Kyaw Ka Dar (နောက်ကျောကဓား) (2017)

Discography

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Solo album

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  • NVM (Never Mind) (2017)
  • Nint Yae (နင့်ရဲ့) (2018)

Singles

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  • Crush On You (2016)
  • Mile Paung Kaday (မိုင်ပေါင်းကုဋေ) (2016)
  • A Phyit Nae A Phyat (အဖြစ်နဲ့အပျက်) (2016)
  • Chit Tar Ta Khu Tae Ti Tae (ချစ်တာတစ်ခုတည်းသိတယ်) (2016)
  • Pyan Tar Pyan Par Shwe Hinthar (ပျံသာပျံပါရွှေဟင်္သာ) (2016)
  • Ha Ha Ha! (2017)
  • Ice (2017)
  • Too Much (2017)
  • Broken Mirror (2017)
  • Nint Yae (နင့်ရဲ့) (2018)
  • Yon Sayar Gyi (ရွံစရာကြီး) (2018)
  • Poison (အဆိပ်) (2018)
  • Way (ဝေး) (2018)
  • I'm Fine (2018)
  • Medusa (2019)
  • No Regret (2019)
  • Let's Go (2020)
  • Tell Me What To Do (2020)
  • Why (ဘာကြောင့်လဲ) (2020)
  • Ice Cream (2020)
  • Chit Khae Pee Pi (ချစ်ခဲ့ပြီးပြီ) (2020)
  • Allergic (2020)
  • Taurus (2023)

Collaboration songs

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  • Lights Down Low With H-rayz & Moe Htet (2016)
  • AwAy With MHL (2016)
  • A Lwan Tint Thu (အလွမ်းသင့်သူ) With Aung Pyae Phyo Kyaw (2016)
  • Sunday (တနင်္ဂနွေ) With Saw Lah Htaw Wah (2016)
  • Tha Nge (သူငယ်) With Ye Lay (2017)
  • Snapshot (လျှပ်တပြက်) With X-BOX (2017)
  • Tha Chin Ta Pote (သီချင်းတစ်ပုဒ်) With Ni Ni Khin Zaw (2017)
  • I.D.F.C With Sandy Myint Lwin (2018)
  • No Love With Rio (2018)
  • Stay Open With Raymond, Diramore, , Diplo (2018)
  • $PO ($ပို) With Charlie (2018)
  • Can't Get It Back With Double U & MHL (2018)
  • Yar Yi (ယာယီ) With May Madi (2019)
  • The Guest (ဧည့်သည်) With Nin Zi May (2019)
  • That Thi Khel (သတ္တိခဲ) With Mi Sandi (2019)
  • Lan Ka Lay (လမ်းကလေး) With Si Thu Lwin (2019)
  • Yin Khone Yin A Chit (ရင်ခုန်ရင်အချစ်) With Si Thu Lwin (2019)
  • Antidote With Mr.Y (2020)
  • B.Barbie Remix Ep-6 With Ye Lay (2020)
  • New Days With R Zar Ni, Yan Yan Chan (2020)
  • Naing Ko Naing Ya Myi (နိုင်ကိုနိုင်ရမည်) With Key Lashi (2021)

OST songs

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  • A Sin Pyay Par Tal (အဆင်ပြေပါတယ်) (2019)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Tun Lin (2 June 2017). "NVM နဲ့ တာထွက်လှခဲ့တဲ့ Sophia Everest" (in Burmese). MODA Magazine. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  2. ^ Zwe Nyan (7 September 2017). "အမျိုးသမီးအဆိုတော်လေးဦး ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်နေတဲ့ ဆိုဖီယာ" (in Burmese). 7Day News. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Myanmar Idol 2016". Yangon Life Media. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  4. ^ Pyone Thinzar Ye (6 May 2017). "Career of Sophia". Digital Times. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  5. ^ ပရိသတ်ချစ်တဲ့ အဆိုတော်ကောင်လေးနဲ့ ပရိသတ်ကို Suprises လုပ်မယ့် ဆိုဖီယာ. People (in Burmese). 15 December 2018. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017.
  6. ^ "R&B သီချင်းများနဲ့ Sophia Everest" (in Burmese). Yangon Life Media. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Sophia's NVM". Yangon Life Media. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  8. ^ Yu Phyu Han (21 February 2017). "ဆိုဖီယာ ရဲ့ Never Mind တေးစီးရီး ထွက်မည်". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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  10. ^ "ဆိုဖီယာ ရဲ့ " နင့်ရဲ့ " တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေ ပရိုမိုးရှင်း မတ်(၁၈) ရက်ပြုလုပ်မည်" (in Burmese). Myanmar Celebrity Media. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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  12. ^ Zaw Win Aung. "Sophia Everestရဲ့ဒုတိယမြောက်တေးစီး". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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