Marriza (singer)
Marriza မာရဇ္ဇ | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Thein Zaw |
| Born | 20 October 1967 Minhla Township, Magway, Myanmar (formerly Burma) |
| Origin | Minhla Township |
| Died | January 23, 2025 (aged 57) Yangon, Bahosi Hospital, Myanmar |
| Genres | rock music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | guitar |
Marriza (Burmese: မာရဇ္ဇ; pronounced: [mà jəzə], born Thein Zaw (Burmese: သိန်းဇော်; pronounced: [θéɪɰ̃ zɔ̀] born 20 October 1967 - 23 January 2025) was a Burmese rock singer-songwriter, recognized for his contributions to the rock music scene in Myanmar.[1] He was known for his original music in a time when most musicians in Myanmar performed cover songs.[2] He gained recognition for composing and performing his own original music, standing out in an era when cover music was prevalent in Myanmar's music industry.[3]
On 23 January 2025, Marriza passed away at the age of 57 due to kidney disease. His death was widely reported by major Burmese news outlets, including NP News, Radio Free Asia, and Dawei Watch, and received significant attention on social media. Many Burmese musicians and celebrities expressed their grief, highlighting his influence on Myanmar's music scene. Marriza was particularly noted for his contributions to rock music, especially for his original compositions at a time when cover songs were prevalent in the industry. His passing was seen as a major loss to the country's music community.[4][5][6][7]
Early life
[change | change source]Marriza was born in Minhla Township, Magway Province, Myanmar (formerly Burma). He was the eldest of two children. In 1993, he moved to Yangon to start his music career.[8][9]
Music career
[change | change source]Marriza worked with the Burmese rock band Iron Cross and became known for his original songs.[10] His song "Long Hair, Tall Height, My Lover" became very popular.[11] He focused mostly on rock music, and his albums gained a loyal audience.[12]
Some of his famous albums include:
- Pon Yait Mai Ga Yit Phyit (1993)
- Mait Sar A Twet Ga Yu Nar
- Myor Lint Chin La Min
- Ga Mie Bar Moe Kyoe
- Ko Yote Soe
- Pyar Yae Myint
- Ka Oo Nar
- Shwe Yaung Kaung Kin
- A Chit Nget Thar Kaung
- Shwe Yati (2002)
- Zet Paung (2004)
- Tay Char Par Tel
- A Chain A Kar (2016)
- Oo Dan (2019)
Death
[change | change source]Marriza passed away on 23 January 2025 at the age of 57 from kidney disease.[14] He died in Bahosi Hospital in Yangon and was buried at Yayway Cemetery.[15][16]
Personal life
[change | change source]Marriza was married to San San Win, and they had two daughters, Lu Lu and Ye Ye.[17][18]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "ရော့ခ်ချည်းသက်သက် ပါဝင်မယ့် မာရဇ္ဇ ရဲ့ တေးစီးရီးသစ် ထွက်မည် (Marriza new music series will be released, which will only include rock)". The Irrawaddy. 25 January 2025. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ↑ Wei Yan Aung (17 October 2017). "ဒီတပတ် ရန်ကုန်မှာ လည်ပတ်စရာ (What to visit in Yangon this week)". The Irrawaddy.
- ↑ Nyein Chan Aye (25 August 2014). "စိတ်ပျက်ရတဲ့ ထူးအိမ်သင် ဂီတပွဲ (သို့မဟုတ်) ပြန်ဆို ယဉ်ကျေးမှု စနစ်တကျ ထွန်းကားသင့်ပြီ (Disappointing music festival (or performance) culture should flourish properly)". The Irrawaddy.
- ↑ "အဆိုတော်မာရဇ္ဇ၏ နောက်ဆုံး ဘဝခရီး ဓါတ်ပုံများ". NP News. 25 January 2025.
- ↑ "တစ်ပတ်အတွင်း မြန်မာ့ရေးရာ". Dawei Watch. 25 January 2025.
- ↑ "နိုင်ငံကျော်အဆိုတော် မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန် (Famous country singer Marriza passed away)". RFA. 25 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "အဆိုတော်မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန်". NP News. 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "အသစ်ထွက်ရှိလာသည့် ရော့ခ်ကာကြီး မာရဇ္ဇသီချင်းသစ်-ခေတ်ပျက်ဟာသ(ရုပ်သံ) (Newly Released Rocker's New Song - Outdated Comedy (Television)". DVB Burmese. 25 January 2025. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ↑ "အဆိုတော် မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန်". Mizzima News. 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "အဆိုတော်မာရဇ္ဇ၏ နောက်ဆုံး ဘဝခရီး ဓါတ်ပုံများ". NP News. 25 January 2025.
- ↑ "အဆိုတော် မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန်". Mizzima News. 24 January 2025.
- ↑ Yu Phyu Han (21 May 2019). "ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစဉ် တေးသီချင်းများနဲ့ ဖျော်ဖြေသွားမယ့် "ရွှေနှလုံးသားဂီတည" ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ". The Irrawaddy.
- ↑ "ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစဉ်အဆိုတော် မာရဇ္ဇ ကျောက်ကပ်ရောဂါဖြင့် ကွယ်လွန်". People's Spring. 25 January 2025.
- ↑ "တစ်ပတ်အတွင်း မြန်မာ့ရေးရာ". Dawei Watch. 25 January 2025.
- ↑ "နိုင်ငံကျော်အဆိုတော် မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန် (Famous country singer Marriza passed away)". RFA. 25 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "အဆိုတော်မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန်". NP News. 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "အဆိုတော် မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန်". DVB Burmese. 24 January 2025.
- ↑ "နိုင်ငံကျော်အဆိုတော် မာရဇ္ဇ ကွယ်လွန်". Radio Free Asia. 24 January 2025.