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== Career ==
== Career ==
Ah Moon was born Lung Sitt Ja Moon in [[Myitkyina]] in war-torn [[Burma]].<ref name = irr/> She was first exposed to music in church where her father was a Baptist minister.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web| url=
Ah Moon was born Lung Sitt Ja Moon in [[Myitkyina]] in war-torn [[Burma]].<ref name = irr/> She was first exposed to music in church where her father was a Baptist minister.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web| url=
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=== Solo career ===
=== Solo career ===
In 2014, Moon began working on her first Burmese solo album, ''Min Pay Tae A Chit'', which has songs in both Burmese and English.<ref name = mmtimes/> The album sold out in Myanmar within weeks. In 2015, she performed at the Advancing Opportunities For Women" music concert in Yangon for International Women Day.<ref name=myceleb>{{cite web| url=
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== Discography ==
== Discography ==

Revision as of 07:11, 28 June 2017

Ah Moon
Background information
Birth nameLung Sitt Ja Moon
Born1991 (age 32–33)
Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar
GenresPop /dance
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Years active2010 –present
LabelsPower Music
Websitehttp://www.ahmoonmusic.com/

Ah Moon is a singer, songwriter, model and dancer from the Kachin State of Myanmar.[1][2][3] She is a solo artist as well as a member of the all-female pop music group the Me N Ma Girls, Burma’s first all-girl pop band.[4][5]

Career

Ah Moon was born Lung Sitt Ja Moon in Myitkyina in war-torn Burma.[5] She was first exposed to music in church where her father was a Baptist minister.[6] Moon studied acting, singing, dance, and violin and piano.[1][7] Ah Moon speaks five languages and graduated with a degree in Russian from the Yangon University of Foreign Language in 2012.[2] Ah Moon began her career in modeling. In 2009, she won Best Talent in the Miss Christmas model competition in Yangon, which led her to pursue singing.[3] She also won the Miss Alliance Francaise competition, a contest held by the French Embassy, in 2009.[3]

In 2010, Ah Moon was one of five women chosen from 120 candidates responding to a radio and newspaper advertisement to be a part of a girl band named The Tiger Girls created by Nicole May, an Australian dancer who came to Myanmar.[6][8] In 2011, the Tiger Girls released their first album, Year of the Tiger Girls, and gained domestic and international attention as Burma’s first pop girl band.[5] The band later separated from their producer and reformed with a new name, Me N Ma Girls, which is a homophone for Myanmar girls. Me N Ma Girls released a new album, Mingalabar (Welcome), in 2011.[1][8]

The group was featured in a documentary Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls, which followed the group after the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and shows the effects of Myanmar in transition from 2010 through 2012.[9] In 2013, the group decreased from five to two members with Ah Moon and Kimi remaining. In 2014, Me N Ma Girls was the first band from Myanmar to be nominated for Best Music Video at the VIMA Music Awards for Girl Strong.[1]

Solo career

In 2014, Moon began working on her first Burmese solo album, Min Pay Tae A Chit, which has songs in both Burmese and English.[1] The album sold out in Myanmar within weeks. In 2015, she performed at the Advancing Opportunities For Women" music concert in Yangon for International Women Day.[10]

Discography

Me N Ma Girls

Albums

  • Year of the Tiger Girls (2011)
  • Mingalarpar (2011)

Singles

  • Come Back Home (2012)
  • Fill Me Up (2013)
  • Girl Strong (2013)
  • Someday (2013)

Ah Moon

Studio albums

  • Min Pay Tae a Chit, 2014
  • Automatic ,2015

Singles

  • Girl Strong (Feat. Me N Ma Girls), 2013
  • Myanmar, 2014
  • I'm Sorry (2016)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Lwin Mar Htun (May 18, 2014). "California Dreamin'". MyanmarTimes. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  2. ^ a b Simon Roughneen (June 29, 2012). "After Aung San Suu Kyi, girl band symbolizes a changing Myanmar?". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Charity ambassadors". Yoma Yangon International Marathon ‘15. 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  4. ^ Alexis Stephens (November 21, 2013). "Myanmar's Me N Ma Girls fight all of the -isms". MTV IGGY. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  5. ^ a b c Nyein Nyein (January 28, 2014). "After split, Me N Ma Girls continue with US-recorded album". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Myanmar's first girl band pushes limits of censors, and parents". New York Times. January 4, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  7. ^ "International sensation singer 'Ah Moon' beats the odds". Indie Artist Radio. 2014. Archived from the original on August 14, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ a b Yip Wai Yee (July 14, 2012). "Don't call them M-pop". The Nation. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  9. ^ Richard Kuipers (July 2, 2013). "Sydney film review: 'Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls'". Variety. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  10. ^ "Ah Moon perform for "International Women Day" concert". Myanmar Celebrity. March 10, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.[permanent dead link]
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