Derek Millar
Derek Millar ဒဲရစ်မေလာ | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 62) Burma |
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| Occupation(s) | 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, "The Nu" (သဲနု) and "Blue Coffee Shop" (အပြာရောင်ကော်ဖီဆိုင်).[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Millar was born in 1962 and was raised in Mingala Taungnyunt Township, Rangoon (now Yangon).[1] He graduated from Rangoon University, majoring in physics.[1] During his time, he befriended contemporaneous singer-songwriters, including Htoo Ein Thin and Khin Maung Toe.[1]
Career[edit]
Millar released his first album in 1983.[1] In 1986, he released his second album, New Age Currents (ခေတ်သစ်ရေစီး), which included a hit song, "Blue Coffee Shop," that elevated him to fame.[1] He composed songs in Wai La's 2019 album Cāritta (စာရိတ္တ).[2][3]
Discography[edit]
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- New Age Currents (ခေတ်သစ်ရေစီး) (1986)
- Will Meet You Forever (1998)
- Kachalar Matikar (ကာချလာမာတိကာ) (2022)
Personal life[edit]
Millar is of Scottish ancestry.[1] He is married and has two children.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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.