Sone Thin Par ( my, ဆုန်သင်းပါရ်; also spelt Sung Tin Par, Sung Thin Par, Sung Tin Par) is a prominent Burmese rock singer-musician of
ethnic Chin descent. She rose to fame in 1998,
and ended a 7-year hiatus from the music industry in December 2012, with the release of her fourth solo album, ''Thit'' (). She was selected to sing the
2013 Southeast Asian Games
The 2013 Southeast Asian Games ( my, ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ် အရှေ့တောင် အာရှ အားကစား ပြိုင်ပွဲ), officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, or the 27th SEA Games, and comm ...
' official song, "Colorful Garden" () in December 2013.
Sung Tin Par was born in
Rangoon
Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...
, Burma, to Pu Sang Nawn, a police officer, and Pi Nawn Tang. She was named by her grandmother; her name means "treasured flower" in the
Chin language
The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of 50 or so Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh. Most speakers of the ...
.
A devout Christian,
Sung married Sang Za Lian, also known as Htin Aung, on 5 May 2010.
Discography
* ''Ko A-kyaung Nae Ko'' () (2004)
* ''Set Yan'' () (2004)
* ''Min Ko'' () (2004)
* ''Thit'' () (2012)
* ''Lo Yar Su'' () (2017)
References
See also
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Music of Myanmar
The music of Myanmar (or Burma) ( my, မြန်မာ့ဂီတ) shares many similarities with other musical styles in the region. Traditional music is melodic, having its own unique form of harmony, often composed with a (''na-yi-se''), ...
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Living people
21st-century Burmese women singers
People from Yangon
Burmese Christians
Burmese people of Chin descent
1981 births
20th-century Burmese women singers