Si Thu Lwin

Si Thu Lwin (Burmese: စည်သူလွင်, also spelt Sithu Lwin; born 25 March 1973) is a Burmese pop singer and actor. He is considered one of the most successful Burmese singers[1] and rose to fame with his debut album Chit Thu Myat Yet Nayt.[2]

In this Burmese name, the given name is Si Thu Lwin. There is no family name.
Si Thu Lwin
စည်သူလွင်
Birth nameSi Thu Lwin
Born (1973-03-25) 25 March 1973
OriginYangon, Myanmar
GenresPop
Occupation(s)Singer, Actor
Years active1995–present

Early life and education

Si Thu Lwin was born on 25 March 1973 in Yangon, Myanmar. He is the only son of Ngwe Kyi, a cartoonist and his wife Daw Kywe. He graduated from Rangoon University with a degree in Math.

Career

Sithu entered the singing contest held by U Saw Nu in 1993 and won the contest together with Tin Zar Maw. After his win, he prepared for her debut album named "Chit Thu Myar Yet Nayt" (The Day of Lovers). The album was released in 1995. Sithu has starred the leading role in the film named Nhote Kham Htet Ka Dar Thwar.[3]

Sithu performed his first one-man show concert in 2014. Si Thu and Tin Zar Maw performed together in a live duet concert called "Beyond the 21st Duet Live" on 27 August 2016 at the Myanmar Convention Centre, where a huge crowd of thousands fans were celebrated.[1]

On 10 November 2018, he embarked on his one-man solo concert called "A Part Of Me" at the Hexagon Complex, Shwe Htut Tin, Yangon.[4]

Discography

Solo albums
  • Chit Thu Myar Yet Nayt
  • A Linn Let Sone
  • Ah Kaung Sone Tay Myar
  • Lu Hnint Diary
  • Nway Oo Kabyar
  • Nya A Pyin Sar[5]

Personal life

Si Thu Lwin is married to Nwe Mar Kyaw in December 2010. They have one son.[6]

References
  1. Satt, Myo (22 August 2016). "Stars align for duet performance". The Myanmar Times.
  2. "Ten Things to do in Yangon This Week". The Irrawaddy. 6 November 2018.
  3. Nyan, Zwe (19 June 2014). "မန္တလေးတွင်ပြုလုပ်မည့် စည်သူလွင်တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ပွဲ မိုးကုန်မှ ကျင်းပမည်". 7Day News (in Burmese).
  4. "ငယ်ငယ်တုန်းက ကြိုက်ခဲ့တဲ့ သီချင်းတွေကို နားဆင်ရမယ့် စည်သူလွင်ရဲ့ တကိုယ်တော်ရှိုး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 3 November 2018.
  5. "Si Thu Lwin". myanmarmp3.net.
  6. "မင်္ဂလာပွဲအတွေ့အကြုံနဲ့ အမှတ်တရတွေကို ဝေမျှပေးခဲ့တဲ့ စည်သူလွင်တို့ ဇနီးမောင်နှံ". Marry. 12 April 2019.
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