Wai La

Burmese reggae singer-songwriter

In this Burmese name, the given name is  Wai La. There is no family name.

Wai La

ဝေလ

Birth name| Wai Phyo Aung
Born|  (1982-11-03) 3 November 1982 (age 42)
Yangon, Myanmar
Genres| Reggae
Occupation| Singer-songwriter
Instruments|

* Vocals
* guitar

Years active| 2000–present

Musical artist

Wai La (Burmese: ဝေလ); born on 3 November 1982) is a Burmese reggae singer-songwriter.[1] He is considered as one of the best present-day Burmese singers[2] and rose to fame with his album Mate Kat Ma Kyaik Thaw Tha Chin Myar.[3][4]

## Early life and education

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Wai La was born on 3 November 1982 in Yangon, Myanmar. He is the third son of four siblings, having two elder brother and one younger brother. He attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 6 Ahlone and Basic Education High School No. 3 North Dagon.[5]

## Career

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Wai La started to write and compose songs in 2000. From 2000 to 2011, he wrote a lot of songs for famous artists and started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. On 1 July 2011, he release his debut solo album "1982". Unfortunately, the album was a failure but that did not stop him to stand up and try again. Afterwards, he participated in many group albums and also sang a lot of songs, cooperating and sang together with local artists. He has become popular due to "Kyo So Par Ei" (Welcome) song from collaborative album "Bo Bo 3rd Year Records" and "Sign Board Kai Pee Lan Shuk Mal" song from collaborative album "Shwe FM 4th Anniversary". Since then, he gained the first recognition from his fans.[6]

His second album "Make up Ma Kyaik Thaw Tha Chin Myar" was released on 3 June 2014 which gained him recognized for his rock attitude, individual and unique style as well as the diversity of his lyrics among millions of fans. His second solo album was more successful than his first solo album – was commercial success and placed the top of the albums chart in local since its released time which turned out to be a success creating him a place to stand in Myanmar music industry.[7] He received the "Best Rock song of the Monsoon" (Artist Choice Awards) and "Special Music Award of the Monsoon" at the 2014 Myanmar Monsoon Music Awards.[8] In 2015, he received three music awards, "The Best Singer of the Year (Rock)", The Best Creative Album of the Year (Rock)", and "The Best Song of the Year (Rock)" with his album "Make up Ma Kyaik Thaw Tha Chin Myar" at the 2014 Myanmar Music Awards.[9][10]

Wai released his third solo album "A Di Pa Ti Phwar" on 12 June 2016.[11] The same year, he launched fourth solo album "Ku Tin Amhat 18" (Bedstead No. 18) on 3 November 2016.[12] On 1 February 2018, he released his fifth solo album "A Tu Myar Tae Myoh" which spawned more huge hits.[13] Many music industry records have followed since then. From 11 to 29 August, he travelled and entertained in London together with Ni Ni Khin Zaw.[14] On 29 September 2018, Wai La embarked on his first one-man show concert "Live in 360" at the National Theatre in Yangon.[3][15][16]

## Discography

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### Solo albums

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* 1982 (2011)
* Make up Ma Kyaik Thaw Tha Chin Myar (မိတ္ကပ္မႀကိဳက္ေသာသီခ်င္းမ်ား) (2014)
* A Di Pa Ti Phwar (အဓိပတိဖြား) (2016)
* Ku Tin Amhat 18 (ကုတင္အမွတ္ ၁၈) (2016)
* A Tu Myar Tae Myoh (အတုမ်ားတဲ့ၿမိဳ႕) (2018)
* Zar Yate Ta (စာရိတၱ) (2019)

## References

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1. ^ "R ဇာနည်၊ Big Bag ၊ ဝေလ၊ သာဒီးလူ၊ လှိုင်ဦးမော်၊ အိမ့်ချစ်တို့ပါဝင်တင်ဆက်မည့် ဂီတဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ မြိတ်မြို့တွင်ကျင်းပမည်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 22 April 2019.
2. ^ Htwe, Zaw Zaw (30 March 2016). "Where top celebrities will be performing". The Myanmar Times.
3. ^ a b "တေးသံရှင်ဝေလနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 7 August 2018.
4. ^ Han, Yu Phyu (13 March 2019). "နာမည္ႀကီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၾသကၤန္သီခ်င္းေတြကို ျပန္ဆိုဖို႔ထက္ တန္ဖိုးထားၿပီးပဲ နားေထာင္တဲ့ ေဝလ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
5. ^ "မိတ်ကပ်မကြိုက်သောသီချင်းများကို ဖန်ဆင်းသူ တေးသံရှင်ဝေလရဲ့ ငယ်စဉ်ဘ၀ အမှတ်တရ ဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 25 January 2018.
6. ^ Nyan, Zwe (23 October 2014). "ဘဝမှာ ဘာဆုမှမရခဲ့ဖူးဘူး။ ပထမဆုံးဆုရတာပါ". 7Day News (in Burmese).
7. ^ "ကျွန်တော့် ဘဝအတွက်တော့ ဂီတက မရှိမဖြစ်ပါပဲလို့ ဆိုတဲ့ ဝေလ". Trend Magazine (in Burmese). 22 July 2014.
8. ^ "Monsoon Myanmar Music Awards Winners". Yangon Life. 20 October 2014.
9. ^ Myint, Khin Lay (23 February 2015). "ပြီးစီးသွားပြီ ဖြစ်တဲ့ မြန်မာ့ဂီတ ထူးချွန်ဆု ပေးပွဲ". Yangon Life (in Burmese).
10. ^ "Myanmar Music Award (MMA) 2014". Yangon Life. 23 February 2015.
11. ^ Kyaw, Yu Mon (1 June 2016). ""အဓိပတိဖွား" အဆိုတော် ဝေလ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
12. ^ "မွေးနေ့အမှတ်တရအဖြစ် "ကုတင်အမှတ် ၁၈" ကို ထုတ်မယ့် အဆိုတော်ဝေလီ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 31 October 2016.
13. ^ Lu, Daing (27 January 2018). "အတုများတဲ့မြို့မှာ မိဘမေတ္တာဖွွဲ့သီချင်းပါတယ်လို့ ဆိုလာတဲ့ တေးသံရှင်ဝေလ ္". Mizzima (in Burmese).
14. ^ Thet, Khin Swe (7 August 2018). "လန်ဒန်ကို သွားရောက်ဖျော်ဖြေမယ့် ဝေလနဲ့ နီနီခင်ဇော်". 7Day News.
15. ^ "အဆိုတော် ဝေလ ရဲ့ "Wai La Live in 360" တေးဂီတဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ". Myanmar Celebrity News. 30 September 2018.
16. ^ Maung, Myo (26 September 2018). "ဂီတ မှတ်တိုင်သစ် စိုက်ထူမယ့်ဝေလရဲ့တစ်ကိုယ်တော် ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ". Popular News Journal.

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* United States