Mee No
Mee No မီးနို | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Poe Eain Phyu |
| Born | 27 November 1990 Pathein, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar |
| Genres | Pop rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals • Piano |
| Years active | 2008–present |
Mee No (Burmese: မီးနို; born Poe Eain Phyu on 27 November 1990) is a prominent contemporary Burmese singer.[1] She gained recognition from competing in Galaxy Star and placed in the top 10.[2][3]
Early life and education[edit]
Mee No was born on 27 November 1990 in Pathein, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar to ethnic Karen-Burmese parent Richard Mg Mg Aung and his wife Noe Noe. Her father is an ethnic Karen/English/Burmese descent and her mother is an ethnic Karen. She is the only daughter. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No.1 Yankin and graduated from Dagon University with a degree in Myanmar in 2009.[4][5]
Career[edit]
Beginnings[edit]
At age 17, Mee No won first prize during the finals of the City FM competition, with singing "Moe Yar Thi" song by L Seng Zi.[6]
2008–2013: Competing in Melody World and collaboration[edit]
In 2008, she participated as a contestant in Melody World, a televised singing competition and won a third prize in level 3 competition. After, she participated in "2008 Melody World" group album with a song "Pha Yar Pay Dae Su". She also participated in many group albums including "Eain Mat Lah Da Gal Lah", "A Yin Tine Htet" and "A Dream From Sixteen Hundred Miles Away".[6]
2013–2017: Solo debut and Galaxy Star[edit]
In 2013, Mee started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute her first solo album. She launched her debut solo album "Falling in Love with a Knife" on 19 January 2014.[2]
In 2017, she participated as a contestant in Galaxy Star, a televised singing competition and placed in the top 10. After she has competed in Galaxy Star, she engaged in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar.[2]
2018–present: 2nd solo and rising popularity[edit]
On 27 May 2018, she released her second solo album "Pyaing Pwel" (Competition) which spawned more huge hits.[7] Her second solo album was more successful than her first solo album – which made everyone to start recognising her as "Mee No".[2][8]
She is one of the very rare singers in Myanmar who has her very own original English song. The name of the song is called "If you love me" which was the English lyric version of her famous song "Nga Ko Chit Yin" from her latest album.[8]
Discography[edit]
Solo albums[edit]
- Falling in Love with a Knife (ဓားတစ်စင်းနဲ့ချစ်မိခြင်း) (2014)
- Pyaing Pwel (Competition) (ပြိုင်ပွဲ) (2018)
Collaboration albums[edit]
- 2008 Melody World (2008)
- Eain Mat Lah Da Gal Lah (အိမ်မက်လား တကယ်လား)
- A Yin Tine Hte (အရင်တိုင်းထက်)
- A Dream From Sixteen Hundred Miles Away
References[edit]
- ^ "မီးနိုနဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 17 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d Han, Yu Phyu (24 May 2018). ""Galaxy Star ပြိုင်ပွဲမှာ ပြုတ်ပြီး တပတ်လောက် စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျခဲ့ဖူးတယ်" ဆိုတဲ့ မီးနို". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
- ^ "အနုပညာနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီးအရမ်းဝါသနာပါလို့သာ တောင့်ခံနိုင်တာ၊ ကြိုးစားသလောက်အရာမထင်ရင်သဲထဲ ရေသွန်ဖြစ်တဲ့အတွက် စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျခဲ့ရတဲ့အချိန်တွေအကြောင်းပြန်ပြောပြလာတဲ့ မီးနို". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 19 May 2019.
- ^ "အသက်၃၀ကျော်မှပဲ အိမ်ထောင်ရေးကိုစဉ်းစားတော့မယ့် အဆိုတော်မီးနို". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ "မီးနို က "ခိုင်မြဲသောအချစ် " သီချင်းလေးနဲ့ အတူ Valentines Day ရဲ့သမိုင်းကြောင်းကို ပြောပြထား". Momolay (in Burmese). 12 February 2019.
- ^ a b Maung, Myo. "တင်ဇာမော်ရဲ့ လေးစားစရာ အချက်တွေကို ပြန်လည်ပြောပြတဲ့ မီးနို". Popular News Journal.
- ^ "တေးသံရှင်မီးနိုရဲ့ ပြိုင်ပွဲတေးစီးရီး စာနယ်ဇင်းမိတ်ဆက်ပွဲနှင့် Promotion ပွဲအခမ်းအနား". MRTV-4. 28 January 2019.
- ^ a b "မီးနိုနဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Current News (in Burmese). 27 May 2018.