Bobby Soxer (singer)

Bobby Soxer
Birth name Htet Htet Aung
Born (1993-05-22) 22 May 1993
Yangon, Myanmar
Genres
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, rapper, actress
Years active 2006–present
Associated acts Hlwan Paing, Lu Min

Bobby Soxer also Htet Htet (Burmese: ထက်ထက်; born Htet Htet Aung on 22 May 1993) is a Burmese singer, songwriter, composer, television actress and model. She is best known for her hip hop music.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Bobby Soxer was born on 22 May 1993 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the youngest daughter of two siblings and she has one elder brother. She attended at Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon and graduated from the National Management College, Myanmar.[5]

Career

Music career

Bobby Soxer released underground hip-hop songs since before she got her big break. She gained recognition from sang together with R&B singer Ye Lay in "Do Not Want To Say Good Bye" (မနှုတ်ဆက်ချင်ဘူး) at her aged 13 years old.[6]

Bobby had released a collaborative album "Done Pyan" (Rocket) with hip-hop singer Hlwan Paing on 21 November 2011.[7] This album gained “The best music album award” given by both Shwe FM and City FM. They donated 1 Million Myanmar Kyats from selling gained gold prize for Rocket music album to orphan children from “Thu Kha Yike Myone” charity organization. Since then, she has released a collaborative album, participated in many group albums and performed in many concerts.[6]

She also sung “Ko Ko” song, from the album of "Gi Ta Sar So Hlwan Paing"; with Hlwan Paing and Eaint Chit together and that song won "The Best Music award" given by Shwe FM.[8]

She started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. She launched his debut album "#21" on 8 February 2015.[9] "#21" video album was released on July 2015.[10]

Acting career

Bobby Soxer has been presenting and acting in a travel documentary called "Let’s Go" together with other artists, Hlwan Paing, Bunny Phyoe, Kyaw Htut Swe, Nan Thu Zar and Nan Myat Phyo Thin.[11][12][13] She started acting her first film "Ar Shwee Tae Ko Ko" (အာရွှီးတဲ့ကိုကို), leading role acting with actor Lu Min and directed by Nyunt Myanmar Nyi Nyi Aung, film released in March 2015.[14][15]

Advertising

Bobby Soxer was appointed as brand ambassador of Coca-Cola in 26 July 2013[2] and she participated in Open Happiness marketing campaign which is distributing new style of Coca-Cola bottles. She also as brand ambassador of Samsung Mobile Myanmar,[3] SPY Wine Cooler and Ve Ve.[16]

Filmography

Films

  • Ar Shwee Tae Ko Ko (အာရွှီးတဲ့ကိုကို) (2015)

Discography

Solo albums

Collaborative albums

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  • Done Pyan (ဒုံးပျံ) (2011)[18]

Personal life

Bobby Soxer relationship with Burmese hip hop singer Hlwan Paing in 17 May 2009.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Myanmar hip hop queen Bobby Soxer pelted with rocks during Irrawaddy show". Coconuts Yangon. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Artists: Sai Sai Kham & Bobby Soxer/Bobby Soxer". Coca-Cola. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Samsung Brand Ambassador အဆိုတော် Bobby Soxer နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Digital Times (in Burmese). 22 June 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "အဆိုတော် Bobby Soxer အင်တာဗျူး". The Irrawaddy Blog (in Burmese). 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "Myanmar Hip Hop Singer: Bobby Soxer". myanmarsinger. 1 July 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  6. 1 2 "ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် ယုံကြည်မှုလွန်ကဲတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". The Irrawaddy Blog (in Burmese). 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Bobby Soxer to release solo album next month". Eleven Media Group. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Popular Singer Couple Hlwan Paing And Bobby Soxer". Myanmar Celebrities. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "Bobby Soxer # 21 Album Press". Yangon Life. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  10. ↑ "'21' Musice Videoကို Julyလမှာ ဖြန့်ချိတော့မည့် Bobby Soxer". Popular Journal. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "Press conference on Let's Go Program - TODAY". today-myanmar.com. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  12. ↑ "The best of Malaysia comes alive in 'Let's Go' - Eleven Myanmar". elevenmyanmar.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  13. ↑ "Myanmar TV stars to produce traveling programs in China". China Daily. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  14. ↑ "'အာရွှီးတဲ့ကိုကို'ဇာတ်ကားမှာ စိတ်တိုင်းမကျတာတွေ များခဲ့တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". 7Day News (in Burmese). 26 March 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  15. ↑ "စိတ်ကြိုက်ကာရိုက်တာနဲ့ ဇာတ်ကားရိုက်ဖို့ ကမ်းလှမ်းရင် လက်ခံမယ်ဆိုတဲ့ Bobby Soxer". 7Day News (in Burmese). 16 July 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  16. ↑ "ပရိသတ်နဲ့အတူ ညစာစားခဲ့တဲ့ စိုင်းစိုင်းနဲ့ Bobby Soxer". Kamayut Media. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  17. ↑ "(၂၁) နှစ်ပြည့် Bobby Soxer ရဲ့ 21". 7Day News (in Burmese). 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  18. ↑ Album Done Pyan Music Album
  19. ↑ "ချစ်သူသက်တမ်း (၈) နှစ်ပြည့်သွားတဲ့ Hlwan Paing နဲ့ Bobby Soxer". Shwe Mom (in Burmese). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
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