Nann Thuzar (Burmese: နန်းသူဇာ; also spelled Nan Thuzar, born 1 December 1990) is a Burmese singer-songwriter, composer and model[1] who has achieved fame and success as a model and singer. Nann Thuzar rose to fame with her album "Friends" which was a duo album with Nan Myat Phyo Thin.[2] In 2017, she started walking the runway at the Myanmar International Fashion Week every year.[3]
Nann Thuzar | |
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နန်သူဇာ | |
 Nann Thuzar walking the runway at the 2018 Myanmar International Fashion Week. | |
| Born | Nann Thuzar 1 December 1990 |
| Alma mater | Dagon University |
| Occupation(s) | Model, singer-songwriter |
| Partner | Kyaw Htut Swe |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Hip hop, R&B |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2009–present |
Early life and education
editNann Thuzar was born on 1 December 1990 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the eldest daughter and has a younger brother. She went to Basic Education High School No. 2 Kamayut (St.Augustine) and graduated from Dagon University with a degree in English.[4][5]
Career
editShe started modelling in 2009 after winning the Step Fashion Girl 2009.[6] Then, she appeared on local magazine cover photos.[7] She has appeared as a commercial model in over 30 commercial advertisements including Doaru, Gold Roast, and Sunday Coffee, etc.[8] Afterwards, she entered the music industry. She has become popular due to "Lar Yar Lan Lay" song include in the group album "Shwe FM 3rd Anniversary". Since then, she gained the first recognition from her fans.[9] On 6 October 2013, she released an album "Friends" which was a duo album with Nan Myat Phyo Thin. The album was a commercial success reaching the top of the album charts.[2][10] The video album was released on 25 January 2015.[11]
Nann Thuzar has been presenting and acting in the popular travel documentary called Let's Go together with other artists, Hlwan Paing, Kyaw Htut Swe, Bunny Phyoe, Nan Myat Phyo Thin, and Bobby Soxer.[12][13][14]
On 12 February 2016, she performed in the traditional anyeint Mandalar May as a comedian.[15] She also performed in the major anyeint concert Khit Thit Akari on 9 September 2016.[16][17] The anyeint has been highly criticized for making some jokes.[18]
Political activities
editFollowing the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she participated in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, she took part in protests, starting in 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.
On 14 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.[19][20][21]
Television program
edit- Let's Go (2013–16)
- Let's Go to Europe (2016)
Anyeint
edit- Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Concert (2014)
- Mandalar May (မန္တလာမေ) (2016)
- Khit Thit Akari (ခေတ်သစ်ဧကရီ) (2016)
Discography
editDuo albums
edit- Friends (2013)
Group albums
edit- Yat Kwat Htae Ka Ayuu (ရပ်ကွက်ထဲကအရူး)
- Shwe FM 3rd Anniversary Album
- Shwe FM 6th Anniversary Album
- Bo Bo 5th Anniversary Album
- Bo Bo Music Thingyan Album
References
edit- ^ "ပထမဆုံး ဟစ်ဟော့ပ်သီချင်းကို အားရကျေနပ်တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ နန်းသူဇာ". 7Day News (in Burmese). 13 May 2016.
- ^ a b "Success of 2 Friends". Yangon Life. 26 January 2015.
- ^ "ချစ်သူသက်တမ်း ရ နှစ်ကျော်ကြာ နားလည်မှုတွေနဲ့ ရှေ့ဆက်နေတဲ့ ကျော်ထွဋ်ဆွေနဲ့ နန်းသူဇာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 31 July 2018.
- ^ "အချစ်ရေးက အေးဆေးပေမဲ့ သွေးအေးမသွားပါဘူးဆိုတဲ့". Duwun (in Burmese). 6 March 2019.
- ^ "သူငယ်ချင်းဖြစ်သူ နန်းသူဇာကို အိမ်ထောင်မပြုစေချင်သေးတဲ့ နန်းမြတ်ဖြိုးသင်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 4 November 2019.
- ^ Fame, Asian (29 January 2019). "စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေလေ့လာနေပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ နန်းသူဇာ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ "အချိန်ကြာလာတာနဲ့ အမျှ သံယောဇဉ်တွေပိုခိုင်မာလာတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ နန်းသူဇာ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). 13 December 2016.
- ^ "စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေလေ့လာနေပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ နန်းသူဇာ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). 29 January 2019.
- ^ "အလှအပအတွက် မျက်နှာ ခွဲစိတ်ကုသမှု လုပ်ရမှာ ကြောက်တဲ့ နန်းသူဇာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 20 May 2019.
- ^ Nyan, Zwe (3 October 2013). "Friend တေးစီးရီးကို အရည်အသွေးကောင်းအောင် ကြိုးစားထားတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ နန်းမြတ်". 7Day News (in Burmese).
- ^ Nyan, Zwe (16 January 2015). "ပရိသတ်ပိုလိုချင်တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ နန်းသူဇာနဲ့ နန်းမြတ်ဖြိုးသင်း". 7Day News (in Burmese).
- ^ "Myanmar TV stars to produce traveling programs in China". China Daily. 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Press conference on Let's Go Program". Today Myanmar. 13 March 2014. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016.
- ^ Naing, Su Hmuu. "The best of Malaysia comes alive in 'Let's Go'". Eleven Media Group. Archived from the original on 28 December 2015.
- ^ Nyan, Zwe (30 January 2016). "လူရွှင်တော်လုပ်ရမှာ စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့ မင်းသမီးများ". 7Day News (in Burmese).
- ^ "အမျိုးသမီး လူရွှင်တော်တွေ တင်ဆက်ခဲ့တဲ့ "ခေတ်သစ်ဧကရီ" ပဒေသာကပွဲ". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 10 September 2016.
- ^ "ပြက်လုံးတချို့ ညစ်ညမ်းအသွင်ဆောင်လို့ ဝေဖန်ခံရတဲ့ ခေတ်သစ်ဧကရီကပွဲ". 7Day News (in Burmese). 10 September 2016.
- ^ "ခေတ်သစ်ဧရီ ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲနှင့် ပတ်သတ်၍ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသဘင်ပညာရှင်များ အစည်းအရုံးမှ ရှုံ့ချသည့် သဘောထား ထုတ်ပြန်". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 14 September 2016.
- ^ "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 လှုပ်ရှားသူ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို အာဏာပိုင်တွေ အရေးယူဖို့ကြေညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.