Rebecca Win

Rebecca Win (Burmese: ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း, pronounced [jèbɛʔka̰ wɪ́ɰ̃]; born May Hnin Nu (မေနှင်းနု [mè n̥ɪ́ɴ nṵ]) on 15 February 1986) is a retired Burmese singer and model.[1] She performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw.[2] Rebecca Win was a judge on the major televised singing competition Eain Mat Sone Yar (Where dreams meet) and also Myanmar's Got Talent.[3][4]

Rebecca Win
ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း
Birth nameMay Hnin Nu
Born (1986-02-15) 15 February 1986
Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar
GenresPop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, model
InstrumentsVocals • Guitar
Years active2004–present

In 2013, she was appointed as a women's ambassador, along with Chit Thu Wai for Myanmar to raise awareness for gender equality and women's rights.[5]

Early life and education

Rebecca Win was born on 15 February 1986 in Myitkyina, Kachin State to a Burmese father and a Kachin mother. One of four siblings. Her aunt L Khun Yi, her cousins L Lun Wa and L Seng Zi, are also popular singers.[6] Her family moved to Yangon when she was just six months old. She converted to Christianity while she joined the church choir at age six. As of 2006, she was a final year Japanese major at the University of Foreign Languages, Yangon.[7]

Career

Rebecca Win was first noticed when she entered Yangon-based City FM Radio's Music Idol contest in 2004. In 2016, she prepared to release three solo albums.[8][9]

She released an album "Meka" on 9 February 2018, which was with Kachin language.[10][11]

She was announced to Media on 3 April 2020, she is taking rest from the professional life of music and model and requested to all not to call her as Rebecca Win of professional name.[12]

Discography
  • Takha Talay (Sometimes)
  • Shote Kone Daw Me (Getting Complicated), collaborated with Yi Mon
  • Maka (2018)

TV show

Personal life

Rebecca Win married to Kaung Kyaw Swe, a businessman. They celebrate their wedding reception in Judson Church in Yangon for traditional wedding on May 4 2013, and also Sedona Hotel Yangon, on 10 May 2013, and concluded a no-fault divorce in 2020.[13]

References
  1. "တစ်ကိုယ်တော် မီနီအယ်လ်ဘမ်လေးထွက်ရှိဖို့ ကြိုးစားနေတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Kumudra (in Burmese). 7 July 2018.
  2. "အရှေ့တောင်အာရှနိုင်ငံများ၏ အားကစားနှင့် ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာထုတ်ဖော်". NPE (in Burmese). 11 December 2013.
  3. ""သီချင်းဆိုပြိုင်ပွဲတွေမှာ ဒိုင်လုပ်ရင် ပရိသတ် အမုန်းခံရတယ်"လို့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 18 February 2020.
  4. "ရိုးရာသီချင်း ကချင်ဘာသာဖြင့်သီချင်းခွေထွက်ရှိသည့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 10 February 2018.
  5. "Women leaders to receive awards this week". The Myanmar Times. 27 October 2013.
  6. "မိုင်လေးကို စိတ်မဆိုးဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Duwun (in Burmese). 23 November 2018.
  7. "အဆိုတော်ရေဗက္ကာဝင်းနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း". The Standard Time Daily (in Burmese). 14 February 2018.
  8. "တစ်ကိုယ်တော် တေးစီးရီးသုံးခွေအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်နေတဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Kumudra (in Burmese). 10 November 2016.
  9. "အနုပညာသက်တမ်း ၁၂ နှစ်အကြာမှ ပထမဆုံး တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေထွက်ရှိမယ့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Mizzima (in Burmese). 9 November 2016.
  10. "ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း ရဲ့ "Maka" ကချင်ဘာသာတေးစီးရီး စာနယ်ဇင်း မိတ်ဆက်". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 9 February 2018.
  11. "" ကချင်ဘာသာစကားနဲ့သီဆိုထားတဲ့ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေ ထွက်ရှိမည့် ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 16 August 2017.
  12. "အနုပညာသည်ဘဝကို အပြီးအတိုင်စွန့်လွှတ်လိုက်ပြီလို့ ကြေညာလိုက်တဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Duwun (in Burmese). 4 April 2020.
  13. "အိမ်ထောင်သက်တမ်း(၆)နှစ်ကျော်မှာ ခင်ပွန်းနဲ့ တရားဝင်ကွာရှင်းလိုက်တဲ့ ရေဗက္ကာဝင်း". Duwun (in Burmese). 24 March 2020.
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