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Mun Awng's music has been described as a mix of Western style rock music and east Asian ballads. [1] He, and other Burmese rock musicians, were not given permission by the government to perform at public venues, and instead performed within university dormitories, with the women's dormitories of Rangoon University being noted as popular makeshift venues.
In 1948, she became the first Kachin national classical songwriter. In 1969–1974, she founded the Buga Band, which became the first band in Kachin State. In 1954, she led the First (B.B.S) The First Kachin Woman Stereo & Radio Vocalist at Burma Broadcasting Service in Kachin Section. She composed more than 600 songs in Burmese, Jingpho, and ...
Manaw Festival (Burmese: မနောပွဲ, Jinghpaw: Manau Poi) is an annual traditional dance festival celebrated by Kachin people. Mostly held at Myitkyina, Kachin State also known as မနောမြေ( Manaw Land ) in Myanmar and also celebrated by Kachin people around the world. Manaw is the largest festival in Myitkyina, held at ...
Kachin women in traditional dress. The Kachin peoples (Jingpo: Ga Hkyeng, lit. ' "red soil" '; Burmese: ကချင်လူမျိုး; MLCTS: ka. hkyang lu myui:, pronounced [kətɕɪ̀ɰ̃ lù mjó]), more precisely the Kachin Wunpong (Jingpo: Jinghpaw Wunpawng, "The Kachin Confederation") or simply Wunpong ("The Confederation"), are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the ...
K Ja Nu (Burmese: ကေဂျာနူး, pronounced [kè dʑà nú]; also spelt K Jar Nu) is a well-known Burmese pop singer in Burma (Myanmar) of Kachin descent; she was most popular in the 1970s to 1980s.
A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an amnesty ...
The manau (Burmese: မနော; Chinese: 目瑙纵歌) (pinyin-mù nǎo zòng gē) dance is a traditional ceremony common to the Kachin (or Jinghpaw) people of northern Myanmar (Burma), Yunnan, China and Arunachal Pradesh, India. Although the majority of Kachin people are Christian, the manau has its roots in animistic religion. [1]
A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar's army in the country's west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.