Ah Moon ( ; born Lung Sitt Ja Moon on 19 January 1991) is a singer from the

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. She is a solo artist who was a member of the all-female pop music group the Me N Ma Girls, Burma's first all-girl pop band. Ah Moon's inclusion in the ‘

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in 2018, whilst internationally she has been referred to as "Myanmar's Rihanna".

Career

Ah Moon was born with the Kachin name Lung Sitt Ja Moon in

Myitkyina Myitkyina (, ; Jingpho language, Jinghpaw: ''Myitkyina'', ; , ''Sèna'') is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located from Yangon, and from Mandalay. In Burmese language, Burmese it means "near the big river", and Myitkyina i ...

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. She was first exposed to music in church where her father was a Baptist minister. Moon studied acting, singing, dance, languages, violin and piano. Ah Moon speaks five languages and graduated with a degree in

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from the Yangon University of Foreign Language in 2012. Ah Moon began her career in modeling. In 2009, she won Best Talent in the Miss Christmas Pageant in

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, which led her to pursue singing. She also won the Miss Alliance Francaise Pageant, a beauty contest held by the French Embassy, in 2009. 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

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dancer who came to Myanmar. 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. 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. 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''.

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. In 2015, she released her second album ''Automatic'' (produced by

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nominated producer/composer Luigie Gonzalez). In 2017, she released her third album ''Very Dangerous'', which was the number one seller on music stores in Myanmar. Her songs are both in Burmese and English. In 2018, she appeared in the movie '' Mystery of Burma: Beyond The Dotehtawady''. In summer 2018 Moon, alongside popular Myanmar singer ''Ar T'', collaborated with American singer, songwriter and dancer

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for the localised version of his song

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– the official

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anthem for the

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, released through

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. In 2020, Ah Moon also collaborated with Denmark singer and songwriter lasse Melting a song called "Each Other's Heroes". Early in the year 2023, Ah Moon went to

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for a cross-cultural studio collaboration with the singer Sigrid Haanshus, who had enchanted the audience in Norske Talenter. Together with Swedish keyboardplayer

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they wrote and produced the song "I Can't Shut My Brain Down", released later that year.

Discography

Ah Moon

Studio albums

*''Min Pay Tae a Chit'', 2014 *''Automatic '', 2015 *''Very Dangerous'', 2017

Singles

*''Girl Strong'' (Feat. Me N Ma Girls), 2013 *''Myanmar'' (2014 ) *''I'm Sorry'' (2016) *''Little Butterflies'' (2017) *''Bring Back My Baby'' (2017) *''Jinghpaw'' (2018) *''A Thae Kwe Zat Lann'' (2018) *''Nway Oo'' (2020) *''Insane'' (2020) *''Snow Story'' (2021) *''Crocodile Tears'' (2022) *''Kiss'' (English Version) (2022) *''I Can't Shut My Brain Down'' (2023) (with Sigrid Haanshus)

Features

*''Unity'' By Sheridan (2022)

Filmography

Films

* ''Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls''(2012 documentary) *'' Mystery of Burma: Beyond The Dotehtawady''. (2018)

References

{{authority control 1991 births Living people 21st-century Burmese women singers People from Myitkyina