Esther Dawt Chin Sung (Burmese: အက်စတာဒေါ့သ်ချင်းဆုန်; born 20 February 1998) is a Burmese singer-songwriter of Chin ethnicity. She achieved national recognition when she won the fourth season of Myanmar Idol.[1] Esther became the first female to win the Myanmar Idol.[2][3][4] She also won the Chin Idol in 2017[5] and was the first winner of the National Performing Arts Competition.
Early life and education
editEsther Dawt Chin Sung was born and raised in Hakha, the capital city of Chin State, Myanmar. She has one younger brother and two younger sisters. She graduated from Yangon University of Economics with a Bachelor of Economics in early 2020.[6]
Career
edit2008: National singing competition
editEsther started singing and performed publicly at a very young age in church, school and concerts. At the age of 10, she auditioned for the 16th edition of the National Performing Arts Competition, commonly abbreviated Sokayeti (ဆိုကရေးတီး) and won the competition. The song that she sang was "Metta".[7]
2017–2018: Chin Idol competition
editIn 2017, she competed in the second season of the Chin Idol held in Hakha, and became the winner. After winning the Chin Idol, she was invited to perform in Australia, America, Singapore, Malaysia and Bangladesh by fellow Chin people usually with various famous Chin-Burmese singers such as Sung Tin Par, David Lai and Jenny Sui.[8][9] She released her songs in Lai (Hakha dialect) in 2018 and also appeared as a solo artist on various popular Lai video albums including Christian music.[citation needed]
2019: Myanmar Idol competition
editIn 2019, she competed in the fourth season of Myanmar Idol. She passed Judges Audition, Golden week Theater round 1, Group Song Week in Treater round 2 of Golden Week, Solo Round, Green Mile and she was chosen top 11 finalist. Finally she reached to Grand Final and competed with Aye Mya Phyu, Benjamin Sum. After a public vote, she was declared the winner, receiving 70,000,000 kyats (equivalent to US$50,000.00) and a two bed-room condominium at the Star City in Yangon.[1][10] Her winner's song "A Phyu Yaung" achieved international and national-wide chart success. During her homecoming to Hakha where a huge crowd of thousands fans gathered.[11] She was designated as a state honorary person and awarded the honorary certificate by Chief Minister Salai Lian Luai and Chin State Government.[12]
2020–present: Performed in oversea concerts and activities
editEsther continues her career as a professional singer and performs in different parts of Myanmar and world-wide. After winning the Myanmar Idol, she made a tour to Singapore. She also travelled to Australia on 9 March 2020 with a first runner up, Benjamin Sum to support the Fund-Raising Activities of Chin for Australian bushfire victims.[13]
Discography
editSingle
editAward
edit- Joox Top 10 Popular Song Award for 2020
Philanthropy
editEsther has supported various charitable organisations and causes in her career.[18] She has contributed to organisations aimed at improving the lives and welfare of children in particular. She performed at the Bush Fire Fund Raising concert for the victim of fire amongst various other performers throughout the world and Myanmar.[19]
References
edit- ^ a b "Myannar Idol 4Winner ဆု ချင်းတိုင်းရင်းသူ Esther က ဆွတ်ခူး". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 29 December 2019.
- ^ "Myanmar Idol Seasonတစ်လျှောက်မှာ ပထမဦးဆုံး မိန်းကလေးWinnerဖြစ်ခွင့်ရတဲ့အပေါ်ခံစားချက်နဲ့ ဆုကြေးငွေတွေကို ဘယ်လိုအသုံးပြုသွားမလဲဆိုတာကိုပြောပြလာတဲ့ အက်စတာဒေါသ့်ဘောမဆုန်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 30 December 2019.
- ^ "ခင်ပွန်းရှိတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ကောလာဟလကို ပြန်လည်ဖြေရှင်းလိုက်တဲ့ အက်စတာဒေါ့သ်ချင်းဆုန်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 19 January 2020.
- ^ "Myanmar Idol ပြိုင်ပွဲ Winner ဆုကို အက်စတာ ဒေါ့သ်ချင်းဆုန် ရရှိ (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 29 December 2019.
- ^ "2017 Chin Idol hlasak zuamnak ah teinak a hmu mi minung pathum hna an aw-aan". CCN Channel. 31 October 2017.
- ^ "ဘွဲ့ယူရတဲ့ခံစားချက်ကို ပြောပြလာတဲ့ အက်စတာ". Cele Connections (in Burmese). 19 January 2020.
- ^ "ပညာရေးရော ဂီတတွင်ပါ ထူးချွန်သူ အက်စတာဒေါ့ချင်းဆုန်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 4 January 2020.
- ^ "ဝေဖန်နေကြတဲ့ အဖြစ်အပျက်အပေါ် ရင်ဖွင့်လာတဲ့ အက်စတာ". Duwun (in Burmese). 30 December 2019.
- ^ "2017 Chin Idol hlasak zuamnak ah teinak a hmu mi minung pathum hna an aw-aan". CCN Channel. 31 October 2017.
- ^ "၂၀၁၉ တနှစ်တာ ရေပန်းစားထင်ရှား လူငယ်အနုပညာ၊ အတတ်ပညာရှင် ငွေကြယ်ပွင့်များ". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 2 January 2020.
- ^ "ဟားခါးတစ်မြို့လုံးနီးပါး ဝန်းရံခဲ့ကြတဲ့ အက်စတာဒေါ့သ်ချင်းဆုန်ရဲ့ အိမ်ပြန်ခရီးစဉ်". Momolay (in Burmese). 8 January 2020.
- ^ "ဟားခါးမြို့၌ ၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ် Myanmar Idol Winner Ester Dawt Chin Sung အား ကြိုဆိုပွဲနှင့်ဂုဏ်ပြုပွဲအခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပ". MOI (in Burmese). 6 January 2020.
- ^ "သြစတေးလျမှာ သွားရောက်ဖျော်ဖြေရမယ့် အက်စတာနဲ့ ဘင်ဂျမင်". Lotaya MPT (in Burmese). 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Esther's song "Unseen" on Joox". Joox.
- ^ "မြန်မာအိုင်ဒေါ Winner ဆုရှင် အက်စတာဒေါ့သ်ချင်းဆုန် သီချင်းသစ်-"Unseen"(ရုပ်သံ)". DVB. 7 August 2020.
- ^ "စောင့်မျှော်နေသူတွေ မျှော်ရကျိုးနပ်စေမယ့် အက်စတာရဲ့သီချင်းအသစ်လေး " Unseen"". Cele Gabar. 7 August 2020.
- ^ . 12 December 2020 https://open.joox.com/s/rd?k=jH4Cp.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "ချင်းပြည်နယ်ကိုလှူမယ့် အလှူငွေတွေကို ကိုယ်ကျိုးအတွက်အသုံးပြုနေတယ်လို့ ထင်နေသူတွေကို ဒဲ့ပြောလိုက်တဲ့ အက်စတာဒေါ့သ်ချင်းဆုန်". Cele Connections (in Burmese). 24 May 2020.
- ^ ""သြစတေးလျနိုင်ငံမီးဘေးသင့် ရန်ပုံငွေပွဲမှာ ပါဝင်သီဆိုအားဖြည့်သွားမယ့် အက်စတာနဲ့ဘင်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်း"". Cele Connections (in Burmese). 7 February 2020.