Twante Thein Tan

Twante Thein Tan was a Burmese singer, songwriter, actor, and film director. He starred in the popular Burmese movie Me, and You, and Padauk Blossoms (ကိုယ်ရယ် မင်းရယ် ပန်းပိတောက်ရယ်).

In this Burmese name, the given name is Twante Thein Tan. There is no family name.
Twante Thein Tan
တွံတေးသိန်းတန်
Background information
Birth nameMaung Thein Tan
Born(1941-09-26)26 September 1941
Twante, Myanmar
Died11 January 1999(1999-01-11) (aged 57)
Occupation(s)
  • Singer-songwriter
  • composer
  • actor
  • film director

He was known as a singer and songwriter for his songs like "Pan Nwe Ga Sein"(ပန်းနွယ်ကစိမ်း) and "Nham laat shot nay laytot". His songs often describe the natural beauty of the countryside and the rural people.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

He was born Maung Thein Tan in Twante, Yangon Region, on September 26, 1941. His father was British by the name of U Nyunt and his mother's name was Daw Chit Tin. He was the fifth child in a family of six.

Albums
  • Myat Nar Wine
  • Special Mingalar Couple (2013)
  • Ko a Hlei
  • Soe Moe Myittar
  • Mya Hnin Si
  • Thaw Nuetra Nei Ma Tu Tei Ngar

Death

He died of liver cancer in Yangon on January 11, 1999.

References
  1. "ဂန္ထဝင်ဂီတဖြင့်ပရိသတ်ကို သိမ်းပိုက်ခဲ့သူ (သို့မဟုတ်) တွံတေးသိန်းတန်" (in Burmese).
  2. "တွံတေးသိန်းတန်ကို ဂုဏ်ပြုခြင်းဖြင့် သိန်း၁၀၀ကျော် အကုန်ကျခံပြီး ပုံတူရုပ်တုဖွင့်လှစ်" (in Burmese).
  3. "shwemyanmar" (in Burmese).
  4. "တမ်းတမ်းတတဖြစ်ခဲ့ရသော ရုပ်ရှင်တေးသီချင်းများ "လမင်းထိန်ထိန်သာ၊ တကျော့နှစ်ကျော့တေးကိုသီ၊ ကိုယ်ရယ် မင်းရယ် ပန်းပိတောက်ရယ်"" (in Burmese).


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