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Burmese Scottish male singer
Derek Millarဒဲရစ်မေလာ
Born1962 (1962) (age 62)
Burma
Genres
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active1983-present
WebsiteDerek Millar on Facebook
Musical artist

Derek Millar (Burmese: ဒဲရစ်မေလာ; born 10 January 1962) is a Burmese-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his hit songs, "Thae Nu" (သဲနု) 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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2023)
  • New Age Currents (ခေတ်သစ်ရေစီး) (1986)
  • Will Meet You Forever (1998)
  • Kachalar Matikar (ကာချလာမာတိကာ) (2022)

Personal life

Millar is of Scottish ancestry. He is married and has two children.

References

  1. ^ Mratt Kyaw Thu (2017-01-28). "A legend of blues and jazz". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  2. "" ပရိသတ်တွေရဲ့ ရင်ထဲကို ရောက်ရှိလာဦးမည့် ဝေလရဲ့ "စာရိတ္တ" "". Lotaya. 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  3. ""စာရိတ္တ"ဟု အမည်ပေးထားသော ဝေလ၏ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်ခွေသစ် ထွက်ရှိ". MDN - Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese). 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2023-03-24.

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