Derek Millar
Derek Millar ဒဲရစ်မေလာ | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) Burma |
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| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
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| Years active | 1983-present |
| Website | Derek Millar on Facebook |
Derek Millar (Burmese: ဒဲရစ်မေလာ; born 10 January 1962) is a Burmese-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his hit songs, "Thae Nu" (သည်းနု) and "A Blue Cafe" (အပြာရောင်ကော်ဖီဆိုင်).
Early life and education
Millar was born in 1962 and was raised in Mingala Taungnyunt Township, Rangoon (now Yangon). He graduated from Rangoon University, majoring in physics. During his time, he befriended contemporaneous singer-songwriters, including Htoo Ein Thin and Khin Maung Toe.
Career
Millar released his first album in 1983. In 1986, he released his second album, New Age Currents (ခေတ်သစ်ရေစီး), which included a hit song, "A Blue Cafe" that elevated him to fame. He composed songs in Wai La's 2019 album Cāritta (စာရိတ္တ).
Discography
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- New Age Currents (ခေတ်သစ်ရေစီး) (1996)
- Will Meet You Forever (အမြဲဆုံတွေ့မယ်) (1998)
- Kachalar Matikar (ကာချလာမာတိကာ) (2022)
Personal life
Millar is of Scottish ancestry. He is married and has two children.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mratt Kyaw Thu (2017-01-28). "A legend of blues and jazz". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ↑ "" ပရိသတ်တွေရဲ့ ရင်ထဲကို ရောက်ရှိလာဦးမည့် ဝေလရဲ့ "စာရိတ္တ" "". Lotaya. 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ↑ ""စာရိတ္တ"ဟု အမည်ပေးထားသော ဝေလ၏ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေသစ် ထွက်ရှိ". MDN - Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese). 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2023-03-24.