Ni Ni Khin Zaw

In this Burmese name, the given name is Ni Ni Khin Zaw. There is no family name.

Ni Ni Khin Zaw (Burmese: နီနီခင်ဇော်; born 31 August 1991) is a Burmese pop singer.^[1] She is the 2008 winner at The Best of Melody World, a televised singing competition.^[2] She performed in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw.^[3]

Ni Ni Khin Zaw နီနီခင်ဇော်
Ni Ni in 2023
Background information
Birth name	Ni Ni Khin Zaw
Born	(1991-08-31) 31 August 1991 (age 33) Yekyi, Myanmar
Genres	Pop R&B
Occupations	Singer Songwriter
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	2008–present
Website	Official website

Early life and education

She was born on 31 August 1991 in Yekyi, Myanmar. She attended and graduated from the University of Medicine 2, Yangon.^[4]

Career

Ni Ni Khin Zaw participated and won the 2008 season of Melody World, a televised singing competition. She did not immediately join the music industry. Between 2008 and 2012, she pursued higher education, graduating with a medical degree from the University of Medicine 2, Yangon.^[4]

The leaking of The Best of Melody World 2008 album propelled her to stardom. She recorded three solo songs and one collaboration song in that album, including "Enemy" ("ရန်သူ"), "Although We're Far Away" ("အဝေးရောက်နေပါသော်လည်း"), and "Stop" ("ရပ်").

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with well-known Burmese artists. She collaborated with rapper Nine One in her single "Don't Colour" ("အရောင်မဆိုးနဲ့"), which garnered 20 million streams and 15 million in sales.^{[citation needed]} In 2012, she also featured in Bobby Soxer's album Rocket (ဒုံးပျံ), namely a track called "Believe It" ("ယုံကြည်လိုက်"). Other well-known songs include "Cloud Poem" ("မိုးတိမ်ကဗျာ") with Yatha, a rapper; "Best Friends Forever" ("ထာဝရသူငယ်ချင်း") with Hlwan Paing; "Birthday Presents" ("မွေးနေ့လက်ဆောင်များ"), and "A Love That will Never Change" ("မပြောင်းလဲနိုင်တဲ့အချစ်").

In 2015, she released her iconic album Red. Upon the album's release, news emerged of her marriage to an older businessman and allegations that she had intentionally concealed her personal life to further her career.^[5] Ni Ni Khin Zaw held her first concert, the REDvolution Show, on 1 April 2017.^[6] Successive REDvolution shows have been held in April 2018 and November 2019 in Singapore.

Since 2018, Ni Ni Khin Zaw has served as a coach on three seasons of The Voice Myanmar.^[7]

Honours and awards

• 2008 Winner at The Best of Melody World
• 2013 Most Popular Song (Shwe FM) for "Hope For Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
• 2013 Most Requested Song from Facebook (Shwe FM) for "Be Faithful" ("သစ္စာမပျက်ကြေး")
• 2014 Best Pop Song in Myanmar Music Awards (MMA) for "Hope for Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
• 2014 Best Song of Monsoon (Myanmar Music Awards, MMA) for "Hope for Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
• 2014 Best Pop Song of Monsoon - Artists' Choice (MMA, 2014) for "Hope for Something" ("မျှော်လင့်ချက်တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ")
• 2014 The Best Renew Song – Artists' Choice (MMA) for "Rain in Inlay Lake" ("အင်းလေးမှာရွာတဲ့မိုး")
• 2014 The Best Pop Singer (MMA)
• 2014 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM Award)
• 2015 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM)
• 2015 Best-Selling Studio Music Album Female Vocalist (City FM)
• 2016 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM)
• 2016 Most Popular Female Vocalist (City FM)
• 2017 1st Runner Up at ASEAN Song Contest

Major M Music Awards 2018^[8]

Year	Recipient	Award	Result
2018	U	Best Pop Album	Nominated
		Album Of The Year	Nominated
	Kha Yay Lann Diary	Best Pop Song	Nominated
	Ni Ni Khin Zaw	Artist Of The Year	Nominated
	Retro Redvolution	Best Live Show	Won
	Best Live Performance	Mario (Retro Redvolution)	Won
	Stand By Me	Fav Song	Won

• 2019 Top Artist Award at Major M Music Awards
• Top Artist Award by JOOX Music Platform
• Best in Music at Myanmar's Pride Awards (MPA)
• 2020 Most Popular Female Artist (City FM)

Discography

Albums

• Mario (မာရီယို) (2013)
• Red (အနီရောင်) (2015)
• U (ယူ) (2017)
• Party Khin Zaw (ပါတီခင်ဇော်) (2019)

Mini albums

• Summer (2019)

Personal life

Ni Ni Khin Zaw married Myo Myint Thein, a merchant vessel chief engineer and widower, on 10 June 2010. The couple divorced in 2013.^{[9][10][11][5]}

In February 2023, she announced her engagement to a previously undisclosed boyfriend.^[12]