Ni Ni Khin Zaw

In this Burmese name, the given name is Ni Ni Khin Zaw. There is no family name.
Ni Ni Khin Zaw
နီနီခင်ဇော်
Ni Ni Khin Zaw
Ni Ni in 2023
Background information
Birth nameNi Ni Khin Zaw
Born (1991-08-31) 31 August 1991 (age 33)
Yekyi, Myanmar
Genres
  • Pop
  • R&B
Occupations
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
InstrumentVocals
Years active2008–present
WebsiteOfficial website

Ni Ni Khin Zaw (Burmese: နီနီခင်ဇော်; born 31 August 1991) is a Burmese pop singer.[1] She is the 2008 winner at The Best of Melody World, a televised singing competition.[2] She performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw.[3]

Early life and education

She was born on 31 August 1991 in Yekyi, Myanmar. She attended and graduated from the University of Medicine 2, Yangon.[4]

Career

Ni Ni Khin Zaw participated and won the 2008 season of Melody World, a televised singing competition. She did not immediately join the music industry. Between 2008 and 2012, she pursued higher education, graduating with a medical degree from the University of Medicine 2, Yangon.[4]

The leaking of The Best of Melody World 2008 album propelled her to stardom. She recorded three solo songs and one collaboration song in that album, including "Enemy" ("ရန်သူ"), "Although We're Far Away" ("အဝေးရောက်နေပါသော်လည်း"), and "Stop" ("ရပ်").

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with well-known Burmese artists. She collaborated with rapper Nine One in her single "Don't Colour" ("အရောင်မဆိုးနဲ့"), which garnered 20 million streams and 15 million in sales.[citation needed] In 2012, she also featured in Bobby Soxer's album Rocket (ဒုံးပျံ), namely a track called "Believe It" ("ယုံကြည်လိုက်"). Other well-known songs include "Cloud Poem" ("မိုးတိမ်ကဗျာ") with Yatha, a rapper; "Best Friends Forever" ("ထာဝရသူငယ်ချင်း") with Hlwan Paing; "Birthday Presents" ("မွေးနေ့လက်ဆောင်များ"), and "A Love That will Never Change" ("မပြောင်းလဲနိုင်တဲ့အချစ်").

In 2015, she released her iconic album Red. Upon the album's release, news emerged of her marriage to an older businessman and allegations that she had intentionally concealed her personal life to further her career.[5] Ni Ni Khin Zaw held her first concert, the REDvolution Show, on 1 April 2017.[6] Successive REDvolution shows have been held in April 2018 and November 2019 in Singapore.

Since 2018, Ni Ni Khin Zaw has served as a coach on three seasons of The Voice Myanmar.[7]

Honours and awards

  • 2008 Winner at The Best of Melody World
  • 2013 Most Popular Song (Shwe FM) for "Hope For Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
  • 2013 Most Requested Song from Facebook (Shwe FM) for "Be Faithful" ("သစ္စာမပျက်ကြေး")
  • 2014 Best Pop Song in Myanmar Music Awards (MMA) for "Hope for Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
  • 2014 Best Song of Monsoon (Myanmar Music Awards, MMA) for "Hope for Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
  • 2014 Best Pop Song of Monsoon - Artists' Choice (MMA, 2014) for "Hope for Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
  • 2014 The Best Renew Song – Artists' Choice (MMA) for "Rain in Inlay Lake" ("အင်းလေးမှာရွာတဲ့မိုး")
  • 2014 The Best Pop Singer (MMA)
  • 2014 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM Award)
  • 2015 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM)
  • 2015 Best-Selling Studio Music Album Female Vocalist (City FM)
  • 2016 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM)
  • 2016 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM)
  • 2017 1st Runner Up at ASEAN Song Contest

Major M Music Awards 2018[8]

Year Recipient Award Result
2018 U Best Pop Album Nominated
Album Of The Year Nominated
Kha Yay Lann Diary Best Pop Song Nominated
Ni Ni Khin Zaw Artist Of The Year Nominated
Retro Redvolution Best Live Show Won
Best Live Performance Mario (Retro Redvolution) Won
Stand By Me Fav Song Won
  • 2019 Top Artist Award at Major M Music Awards
  • Top Artist Award by JOOX Music Platform
  • Best in Music at Myanmar's Pride Awards (MPA)
  • 2020 Most Popular Female Artist (City FM)

Discography

Albums

  • Mario (မာရီယို) (2013)
  • Red (အနီရောင်) (2015)
  • U (ယူ) (2017)
  • Party Khin Zaw (ပါတီခင်ဇော်) (2019)

Mini albums

  • Summer (2019)

Personal life

Ni Ni Khin Zaw married Myo Myint Thein, a merchant vessel chief engineer and widower, on 10 June 2010. The couple divorced in 2013.[9][10][11][5]

In February 2023, she announced her engagement to a previously undisclosed boyfriend.[12]

References

  1. ^ Lwin Mar Htun (24 September 2012). "Singing finalists perform". Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. ^ "သူတို့သံစဉ် သူတို့ကမ္ဘာ". 8 Days Journal (in Burmese). 1 March 2011. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  3. ^ အေဝိုင်အီး. "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ နာမည်ကြီး အနုပညာရှင်များ ပါဝင်လာသည့် ဆီးဂိမ်းလှုံ့ဆော်ရေး မတ်လတတိယအပတ်မှ စတင်ပြီ". Pyi Myanmar (in Burmese). Yatanarpon. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  4. ^ a b စကားဝါ (19 May 2014). "အနုပညာ အလုပ်ကို လုပ်နေ ပေမယ့်လည်း ဆရာဝန် အလုပ်ကို လက်မလွှတ် ပါဘူးလို့ ဆိုလာသူ နီနီခင်ဇော်". Myawady (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b Aung, Nandar. "The name on everyone's lips". The Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  6. ^ "redvolution-show-by-ni-ni-khin-zaw-peoples-square-and-park".
  7. ^ "Never fear, the Voice is here". The Myanmar Times. 1 February 2018. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  8. ^ Major M (1 December 2018). "Major m music awards winners" (in Burmese). Major M. Archived from the original on 25 August 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Talented Singer Ni Ni Khin Zaw Has Gotten Success In Her Clutches Within Six Years". Myanmar Celebrities. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  10. ^ "Interviewed with U Myo Myint Thein about him & Ni Ni Khin Zaw full story". Shwe Darling. Archived from the original on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  11. ^ "Talented Singer Ni Ni Khin Zaw Has Gotten Success In Her Clutches Within Six Years". Myanmar Celebrities. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  12. ^ "ပဟေဠိဆန်စွာ ဖွက်ထားခဲ့တဲ့ ချစ်သူကို အလင်းပြလိုက်တဲ့ နီနီခင်ဇော် | Duwun". Duwun - မျိုးဆက်သစ်တို့ရဲ့မီဒီယာ (in Burmese). 25 February 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.