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{{short description|Burmese singer of ethnic Rakhine descent (born 1992)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Thar Nge}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Thar Nge
| native_name     = {{lang|my|သားငယ်}}
| image           = File:Thar Nge MM Idol.jpg
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| caption         =
| birth_name      = Zaw Win Htun
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|df=y|1992|03|23}}
| birth_place     = [[Manaung]], [[Rakhine State]], [[Myanmar]]
| genre           = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Pop music|Pop]], [[Pop rock]]
| instrument      = {{hlist|[[Vocal]]s | [[Guitar]]}}
| occupation      = Singer-songwriter
| years_active    = 2017–present
| associated_acts =
| website         =
}}
'''Thar Nge''' ({{langx|my|သားငယ်}}; born '''Zaw Win Htun''' on 23 March 1992) is a Burmese singer of ethnic [[Rakhine people|Rakhine]] descent. He gained national attention for winning the [[Myanmar Idol (season 2)|second season]] of ''[[Myanmar Idol]]''.<ref name="youtube"> YouTube [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SopIYAAfiUQ&tag=visit Myanmar Idol Season2 Winner = Thar Nge]</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.8days.com.mm/cover-star/thar-nge-billy-lamin-aye|title=Thar Nge and Billy Lamin Aye Interview သားငယ်နဲ့ဘီလီလမင်းအေး အင်တာဗျူး|date=23 March 2017|work=8day Journal|access-date=16 August 2017|language=my}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/entertainment/8385|title=Myanmar Idol winner to be announced on March 25|date=20 March 2017|work=[[Eleven Media Group]]|access-date=16 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://frontiermyanmar.net/en/idol-fever-grips-yangon|title=Myanmar's population has been riveted by the latest season of Myanmar Idol|date=30 March 2017|work=Frontier Myanmar|access-date=16 August 2017}}</ref> Thar Nge released his debut album Lan Ka Lay on 2 February 2018.
==Early life==
Thar Nge was born on 23 March 1992 in [[Manaung]], [[Rakhine State]], and is an ethnic [[Rakhine people|Rakhine]] from Rakhine State.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sunthitmyanmar.com/man-aung-island|title=နေတိုးမှသည် သားငယ်ဆီသို့ ဝတီ မေဃ လှပဋ္ဌာနေ မာန်အောင်မြေ|date=30 March 2017|work=Sunthit Myanmar|access-date=16 August 2017|language=my}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunthit.com/entertainment/celebrities-news/myanmar-idol-%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%84%E1%80%9A%E1%80%B9-%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%82%94%E1%80%99%E1%80%9F%E1%80%AF%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9-%E1%81%80-%E1%82%90%E1%80%BD%E1%80%AD%E1%80%B1/|title=Myanmar Idol သားငယ် သို့မဟုတ် "ဝ" ရှိသော လူငယ်လေး|date=26 March 2017|work=Sunthit Myanmar|access-date=16 August 2017|language=my}}</ref> Thar Nge and his wife live in [[Pyin Oo Lwin]] and worked as a [[Fritter#Myanmar|fritter hawker]] for his living before he competed in [[Myanmar Idol]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mmtimes.com/news/taste-fame.html|title=A taste for fame|work=[[The Myanmar Times]]|date=12 December 2017|author=Nyo Me|access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sundayjournalmyanmar.com/thar-nge-6-24|title=ကျန်တဲ့ဆိုင်တွေကိုလည်း မျှပြီးအားပေးကြပါလို့ ပရိုမိုးရှင်းဆင်းခဲ့တဲ့ -အကြော်သည် သားငယ်|date=11 August 2017|work=Sunday Journal|access-date=16 August 2017|language=my}}</ref><ref name="am"> Auntymay Team [http://www.auntymay.com/thar-nge-and-his-wife/ ဇနီးသည်နဲ့အတူ ပျော်ပျော်ကြီး အကြော်ကြော်နေတဲ့ သားငယ်]</ref>
==Career==
===2017: Competing in Myanmar Idol and rising popularity===
Thar Nge started out on his music career in participated as a contestant in [[Myanmar Idol]], a televised singing competition. In the [[Myanmar Idol]] final, he competed with [[Billy La Min Aye]] with three songs. With the voting results of the whole country, he became the winner of the Season 2 of Myanmar Idol.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.mcntv.biz/news/local-news/3292/|title=Myanmar Idol Season 2 ရဲ့winner သားငယ်ရရှိ|publisher=MCN TV|access-date=16 August 2017|language=my}}</ref> Since winning in Myanmar Idol, he engaged in shooting commercial advertisements, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.kumudranews.com/art/%E1%80%BB%E1%80%99%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9%E1%80%99%E1%80%AC%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B1%E1%80%92%E1%80%AB%E1%80%9C%E1%80%B9-%E1%80%A1%E1%80%86%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BD|title=မြန်မာအိုင်ဒေါလ် အဆိုရှင် သားငယ် တစ်ကိုယ်တော် အခွေ မကြာခင်ထွက်ရှိမည်|date=23 July 2017|work=[[Kumudra]] Journal|access-date=16 August 2017|language=my}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://thechinlandpost.com/burma/burma-news/1560-myanmar-idol-season-2-hlasak-zuamnak-winner-cu-thar-nge-nih-a-co|title=Myanmar Idol Season-2 Winner|work=The Chin Land Post|access-date=16 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://crownmagazine.com.mm/post/crown-interview-with-thar-nge|title=Crown Magazine interview with Thar Nge|date=15 June 2017|work=Crown Magazine|access-date=16 August 2017}}</ref>
===2018–present: Solo debut and activities===
Thar Nge started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. He launched his debut solo album ''Lan Galay'' (လမ်းကလေး) on 2 February 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yangonlife.com.mm/en/article/lan-ka-lay-thar-nge|title=Lan Ka Lay by Thar Nge|work=Yangon Life|date=13 February 2018|access-date=22 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.yangonmedia.com/entertainment/item/10558-myanmar-idol-season-2-winner-%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%84%E1%80%9A%E1%80%B9%E1%81%8F-solo-album-%E1%80%A1%E1%80%90%E1%80%BC%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9-%E1%80%80%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9A%E1%80%B9%E1%80%95%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9%E1%80%9E%E1%80%B6%E1%80%85%E1%80%A5%E1%80%B9-%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AE%E1%80%81%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8-%E1%80%B1%E1%80%95%E1%80%B8%E1%80%95%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%82%94%E1%80%9B%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9-%E1%80%96%E1%80%AD%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B1%E1%80%81%E1%81%9A|title=Myanmar Idol Season 2 Winner သားငယ်၏ Solo Album အတွက် ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစဉ် သီချင်းများ ပေးပို့ရန် ဖိတ်ခေါ့်ရန် ဖိတ်ခေါ်|date=8 May 2017|work=Yangon Media|access-date=16 August 2017|language=my}}</ref>
==Political activities==
Following the [[2021 Myanmar coup d'état]], Thar Nge was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. On 5 April 2021, warrants for his arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the penal code by the [[State Administration Council]] for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, he was charged with calling for participation in the [[Civil Disobedience Movement]] (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the [[Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw]], and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.<ref>{{cite news |title=ရုပ်ရှင်သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ၊ အဆိုတော် သားငယ်နှင့် ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့် |url=https://burmese.dvb.no/archives/456257 |work=DVB |date=5 April 2021 |language=my}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=အမှန်တရားဘက်မှာ ရပ်တည်ခဲ့တဲ့အတွက် ဂုဏ်ယူမဆုံးဖြစ်ကြောင်း မြတ်နိုးအေး ပြော |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2021/04/06/240435.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my|date=6 April 2021}}</ref>
== Discography ==
=== Solo albums ===
* ''Lan Ka Lay'' ({{lang|my|လမ်းကလေး}}) (2018)
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Facebook|baddthar.lay|Thar Nge Profile}}
*{{Facebook|tharngemyanmaridol|Thar Nge}}
*{{YouTube|channel=UCDcT3YgTVQeNy6-bBQf9InA}}
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[[Category:1992 births]]
[[Category:21st-century Burmese male singers]]
[[Category:Burmese singer-songwriters]]
[[Category:Burmese Theravada Buddhists]]
[[Category:Rakhine people]]
[[Category:People from Rakhine State]]
[[Category:Myanmar Idol winners]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Participants in Burmese reality television series]]