Ant Gyi

Ant Gyi
Native name အံ့ကြီး
Born 17 June 1923
Maymyo, British Burma
Died 23 June 2017 (2017-06-24) (aged 94)
Yangon, Myanmar
Occupation(s) Musician

Ant Gyi (Burmese: အံ့ကြီး 17 June 1923 – 23 June 2017) was a prominent Burmese singer and musician, best known for singing classic Burmese songs including "Man Taung Yeik Kho" (မန်းတောင်), "Lu Gyun Lu Kaung" (လူချွန်လူကောင်း), "Yin Ta Ko Me" (ယဉ်တစ်ကိုယ်မယ်), "Babu Thuza" (ပန်းပုသူဇာ), "Turiya Lulin" တူရိယာလုလင်, "Yangon Thu" (ရန်ကုန်သူ), "Turiya Lon May" (တူရိယာလုံမေ), "Aung Pinle" အောင်ပင်လယ်, and "Shwe Mingan" (ရွှေမင်းဂံ).

Personal life

Born to K.K. Bahattacharjee, Superintendent of the Forest Department (Chindwin Circle) and Daw Win, he attended the American Baptist Mission School.[1] Married to May Nyunt, Ant Gyi had two sons and one daughter.[2] He died on 23 June 2017 at the Parami General Hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, and cremated at Yayway Cemetery on 25 June.[3] His grand-nephew, Htun Htun, is an actor.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Who's Who in Burma. Rangoon: People's Literature Committee and House. 1961. p. 35.
  2. ↑ "Musician Ko Ant Gyi dies at 95". 5 Plus.
  3. 1 2 Lin Lin Khaing (24 June 2017). "လူချွန်လူကောင်း၊ ယဉ်တစ်ကိုယ်မယ် အပါအဝင် ထင်ရှားသည့် တေးသီချင်းများစွာ သီဆိုခဲ့သူ မြန်မာဂီတပညာရှင် တေးသံရှင် ဦးအံ့ကြီး ဇွန်လ ၂၃ ရက် ညပိုင်းတွင် ရန်ကုန်မြို့ ပါရမီအထွေထွေရောဂါကုဆေးရုံကြီးတွင် ကွယ်လွန်". Eleven News (in Burmese). Retrieved 27 June 2017.
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