Htet Yan

Htet Yan (Burmese: ထက်ယံ; born Nyein Htet Aung on 18 October 1994) is a Burmese singer and actor.[1] He is considered one of the most successful Burmese singers and rose to fame with his debut album New (2016).[2]

Htet Yan ထက်ယံ
Background information
Birth name	Nyein Htet Aung
Born	(1994-10-18) 18 October 1994 Meiktila, Myanmar
Genres	R&B pop hip hop soul
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter • actor
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2011–present

Early life and education

Htet Yan was born on 18 October 1994 in Meiktila, Mandalay Region, Myanmar to parent Aye Thein and his wife Kyu Kyu. He is the youngest son of two siblings, having an elder brother. He attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Meiktila. In 2010, he relocated Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar to follow his passion and attend university. And then he enrolled at the National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon, and graduated with a degree in Cinematography & Drama in 2013.[2]

Music career

2011–2014: Beginnings and recognition

Htet Yan performs in a concert

His passion and dream is becoming a singer therefore he relocated to the Yangon from Meiktila. He began his music career in 2011 while still a university student. He released a lot of songs and mix-tapes, collaborating with his friends. He has become popular due to "No More Cry" song from Yair Yint Aung and Thar Thar's collaboration album "A Mone Diary" in 2012. Since then, he gained the first recognition from his fans.[3]

In 2013, he participated in the group album "Bo Bo Anniversary" with a song "Nin Lo Chin Tha Lo". And then he directed and acted in "Nin Lo Chin Tha Lo" music video.[4] In 2014, he released an album "4 Album" which was a collaboration album with other artists Shwe Htoo, X-Box, and Lil'z.[2]

2015–2016: Solo debut and rising popularity

In 2015, Htet started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute his first solo album. He launched his debut solo album "New" on 20 February 2016.[5] After 8 months later, he released his second solo album "October 18" on his birthday which turned out to be a success creating him a place to stand in Myanmar music industry.[6][7]

2017–present: One Man Show and nationwide hit

On 9 June 2017, Htet embarked on his first one-man show concert "In My Life", performed together with many other artists such as Yair Yint Aung, Shwe Htoo, X-Box, Lil'z, Oasix, and Y-Zet in Mandalay. He released a live show album "In My Life" on 4 January 2018.[8]

Htet Yan is performing in a concert in Yangon

On 21 October 2018, he released a duo album "Shae Me Nout Me" with singer Thar Thar, which spawned more huge hits. Many music industry records have followed since then. One of the songs from that album named "Nway Thwar Tal" (Makes Me Feel Warm) song which proved a smash, hitting the number one slot in the country, gained him to nationwide recognition and that song has been one of the all-time hit in his career.[9][10]

Acting career

Htet made his acting debut in the Burmese military action film Special 9, where he played the main role with local hip hop artists including Yone Lay, Myint Myat, Nine One, Thar Thar, Ice Cold, and others. The film was directed and written by singer Yone Lay, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 7 September 2018.[11]

Filmography

Film (Cinema)

Year	English title	Burmese title	Role	Notes
2018	Special 9	အထူးတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်(၉)ဦး	Htet Yan	Main role

Discography

Solo albums

• New (2016)
• October 18 (2016)

Collaboration albums

4 Album (2014)

Live show albums

• In My Life (2018)

Duo albums

• Shae Me Nout Me (ရှေ့မှီနောက်မှီ) (2018)

References

1. Khin Swe Thet (1 March 2018). "ဖွေးဖွေးနဲ့ ရုပ်ရှင်တွဲရိုက်ချင်တဲ့ ထက်ယံ". 7Day News (in Burmese).
2. Pann Myat Zaw (22 May 2017). "အဆိုတော် ထက်ယံ၏ ပထမဆုံး တစ်ကိုယ်တော် ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ မန္တလေးမြို့တွင် ကျင်းပမည်". Mizzima (in Burmese).
3. "Facebook တစ်ခုလုံးပါ အေးစက်သွားစေတဲ့ ထက်ယံရဲ့ သီချင်းအသစ်". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 4 July 2018.
4. "Bo Bo Anniversary တေးအယ်ဘမ် ထွက်ရှိမည်". Mizzima (in Burmese). 12 May 2016.
5. "ထက်ယံ ရဲ့ အသစ်". Yangon Life (in Burmese). 20 February 2016.
6. "ထက်ယံ ရဲ့ 'October 18' တေးစီးရီးမိတ်ဆက်ပွဲ". MRTV-4. 14 October 2016.
7. "တက်တူးထိုးတိုင်း လူဆိုးမဟုတ်ပါဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ထက်ယံ". Kumudra (in Burmese). 17 August 2017.
8. Yu Phyu Han (16 May 2017). "မန္တလေးတွင် တကိုယ်တော် ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲပြုလုပ်မယ့် အဆိုတော် ထက်ယံ". The Irrawaddy.
9. "That old familiar feeling: Burmese hit takes hit over Imagine Dragons melody | Coconuts Yangon". Coconuts Media. 22 March 2019.
10. Zwe Nyan (9 April 2010). "'နှေးသွားတယ်' သီချင်းအမ်တီဗီထဲက ကကွက်ကို Challenge လုပ်မယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ထက်ယံ". 7Day News (in Burmese).
11. Nyan Lynn Aung (20 September 2018). "Laughter completely engulfs the sound of gunfire in 'Special 9'". The Myanmar Times.

External links

• Htet Yan on Facebook