Wyne Lay

Wyne Lay (Burmese: ဝိုင်းလေး; born Wint Yee Shunn on 3 August 1994) is a Burmese singer, songwriter, pianist, model and beauty pageant title holder. She was crowned the Miss World Myanmar 2014 and represented Myanmar at Miss World 2014.[1] Wyne has achieved fame and success as a model and singer.[2]

Wyne Lay
Wyne Lay singing with a saung (Myanmar harp)
Born
Wint Yee Shunn

(1994-08-03) August 3, 1994
Yangon, Myanmar
Alma materUniversity of Foreign Languages, Yangon
OccupationSinger • Songwriter • Beauty queen • Pianist • Model
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Musical career
InstrumentsVocals • Piano • Guitar • Myanmar harp
Years active2012–present
WebsiteFacebook page

Early life and education

Wyne Lay was born on 3 August 1994 at No.2 Military Hospital, Dagon Township, Yangon, Myannar to parents Moe Kyaw and Nu Nu. She is youngest daughter of three siblings, having two older sisters.

Wyne's family moved to Sittwe, Rakhine State, in 1999, and she attended primary school at Basic Education Middle School (BEMS) in Meikhtila. She studied fifth grade atBasic Education Middle School No. 1, and enrolled in high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Bahan. She enrolled at University of Foreign Languages, Yangon, majoring in French. She successfully finished her degree BA (French) in 2013.

Pageantry

Miss World Myanmar 2014
Wyne Lay, Miss World Myanmar 2014

She competed in Miss World Myanmar 2014 which was held on 27 September 2014 in Yangon. She became the winner of Miss World Myanmar 2014 after the competition. Wyne is the first Miss World Myanmar, after Myanmar revitalized its participation in the pageant.[3] She was make judge in the Top 20 finalist of Miss World Myanmar 2017 pageant.[4]

Miss World 2014

She represented Myanmar at the Miss World 2014 pageant, one of the largest beauty pageants in the world, to be held in December 2014 at ExCeL London in London, but was unplaced.[5]

Career

Wyne began studying piano at age 8. She joined the Myanmar Traditional Arts Competition and won her first gold medal for piano skills in 2004. She won two silver medals in 2005 and 2006, and gold in 2007. Pianists Thet Oo, Tin Win Hlaing, Ngway Soe, Myo Naing and Tun Tun were her teachers. She received voice training from songwriter Naung Naung (SF) and Ko Pi (Triangle Band).[6]

Wyne was first runner up for French Songs Competition at French Embassy Myanmar in 2011. Her breakthrough performance was in the fourth season of Eain Met Sone Yar (Where dreams meet), in which she was second runner up.[7] Wyne writes songs and plays the saung (Myanmar harp).[8]

In 2013, Myanmar hosted the 27th South East Asia Games. She took part in the recording for this event. She participated in six group albums from 2013 to 2014 and promoted a music video karaoke album, "Legend of Nightingale", in 2013 with two other singers. She starred in her own music videos.[9]

Her first solo album "Selfie" was released in 2015. The music video was released on 15 May 2016. Afterward she joined in some group albums and continued modeling. Her second album "Wyne" was released on 17 February 2018 which turned out to be a success creating him a place to stand in Myanmar music industry.[10][11]

Awards and achievements
  • Eain Mat Sone Yar, season 4, second runner up (2012)
  • Winner of Miss World Myanmar 2014
  • Selfie music album ranked top 5/6 in FM (Shwe FM & City FM); No. 9 best seller in music stores (2015)
  • "Wyne" second solo DVD album released in 2020 Feb 12 ranked top 6 best seller in music stores(2020)

Discography

Solo albums
  • Selfie (2015)
  • Wyneaudio CD (2017)
  • "Wyne" DVD (2020)

Group albums
  • Legend of Nightingale (တေးသီငှက်တို့ဒဏ္ဍာရီ) (2013)
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References
  1. Chit Poe (9 July 2018). ""အချစ်ရေးမှာ တယောက်တည်း ဖြစ်သွားပြီ" ဆိုတဲ့ အဆိုတော် ဝိုင်းလေး" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. Chit Poe (26 June 2018). ""ရိုးသားပြီး စိတ်ဓာတ်ကောင်းမွန်သူကို ချစ်သူရွေးချယ်ထားတယ်"ဆိုတဲ့ ဝိုင်းလေး" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. "Wyne Lay is Miss Myanmar World 2014". The Times of India. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  4. "Miss World Myanmar 2017မှာ အကဲဖြတ်ဒိုင်အဖြစ်ဆောင်ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဝိုင်းလေး" (in Burmese). Popular Journal. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  5. "Miss Myanmar World crowned". Global Times. 28 September 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  6. "စက်တင်ဘာလမှာ လမ်းခွဲမယ်လို့ ဖွင့်ဟလိုက်တဲ့ ဝိုင်းလေး" (in Burmese). Sunday Journal. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  7. "Myanmar". missworld.com. Retrieved 2014-12-06.
  8. "မကြာခင် ထွက်တော့မယ့် MTV အကြောင်း ပြောပြခဲ့တဲ့ ဝိုင်းလေး" (in Burmese). Duwun Media. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  9. Myo Maung. "တာဝန်အရသီချင်းအသစ်တွေကို ဖြန့်ချိမယ့် အဆိုတော်ဝိုင်းလေး" (in Burmese). Popular Journal. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  10. "အဆွေးသီချင်းတွေနည်းသွားမယ့် ဝိုင်းလေးရဲ့ဒုတိယအခွေ" (in Burmese). Popular Journal. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  11. "ဒုတိယမြောက် တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေမှာ ကိုယ်တိုင်ရေးသီချင်းတွေ များများပါမယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ဝိုင်းလေး" (in Burmese). moi.gov.mm. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
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