Khine Htoo
Khine Htoo (Burmese: ခိုင်ထူး; also spelt Khaing Htoo, 28 January 1956 – 9 August 2017) was a prominent Burmese singer, known for numerous hit songs, including "Sagaing Road" (စစ်ကိုင်းလမ်း), "Khitta" (ခတ္တာ), "The Last Dream" (နောက်ဆုံးအိပ်မက်), and "Inzali" (အဉ္ဇလီ).[1][2]
Khine Htoo ခိုင်ထူး | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 January 1956 Burma |
| Died | 9 August 2017 (aged 61) Yangon, Myanmar |
| Genres | Burmese Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
Early life and education
Khine Htoo was born on 28 January 1956, in Rangoon, Burma, to Tha Hto, a professor at the Yangon University of Economics, and his wife, Tin Myint Myint. He was the second eldest of three children.
Khine Htoo was first married to May Kyaw Khaing, a physician. The two separated following the 8888 Uprising, when his wife, involved in political activities, fled to the Thai-Burmese border. Following that, he wed Mi Gaing, an ethnic Kachin. The two have a son, Gun Hsan Laphai. His third marriage was with Saw Nwe Nwe Htun.
Death
On 31 July 2017, Khine Htoo was admitted to Yangon General Hospital for hematemesis, and also showed symptoms of jaundice.[3] HIs condition did not improve, so he was flown to Samitivej Hospital in Bangkok for further treatment.[4] There, he was diagnosed with an advanced form of pancreatic cancer.[5][4] Khine Htoo was flown back to Yangon on 8 August, and died of pancreatic cancer at the Parami Hospital in Yangon, Myanmar on 9 August 2017, around 3:24 pm in the afternoon.[2]
Discography
Solo albums
- တေးမြုံငှက်
- အဉ္စလီ
- သီချင်းတစ်ပုဒ်၊ ပန်းတစ်ဆုပ်
- ဆို
- မကောင်းလည်းကိုယ်၊ ကောင်းလည်းကိုယ်
- မိုးရဲရင်ဆောင်းရဲရမယ်
- ရွှေလည်တိုင်
- အားလုံးကိုကျော်ဖြတ်ရမယ်
- မကျေနပ်ဘူးသိလား
- အစောဆုံးပြန်ခဲ့
- နှင်းသက်သက်ဝေ
- ၃၉
- ကမ်းလက်သင့်ရာ
- အမုန်းဆုပန်မယ့်လူသား
- တွဲဖက်ချွေး
References
- Lin Lin Khine (2017-08-10). "Singer Khine Htoo passes away". Eleven Myanmar. Archived from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
- "သိဟ်ရာသီ ဝါခေါင်မိုးနဲ့ မလှမ်းလာနိုင်တော့တဲ့ စစ်ကိုင်းလမ်းက ခိုင်ထူး". Mizzima (in Burmese). 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
- "အဆိုတော် ခိုင်ထူး ဆေးကုသမှုခံယူနေ". 7Day Daily (in Burmese). 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
- "တေးသံရှင် ခိုင်ထူး ကွယ်လွန်". The Voice Myanmar (in Burmese). 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
- "အဆိုတော် ခိုင်ထူး ကွယ်လွန်". BBC Burmese (in Burmese). 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2017-08-15.