Kyar Pauk

In this Burmese name, the given name is Kyar Pauk. There is no family name.

Kyar Pauk ကျားပေါက်
Birth name	Han Htue Lwin
Born	Taungoo, Myanmar
Genres	Punk
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, Singer, Composer, Guitarist, Producer
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Vocals, Handpan, Drums
Years active	2000–present

Kyar Pauk (Burmese: ကျားပေါက်), born Han Htue Lwin (ဟန်ထူးလွင်), is a Burmese singer-songwriter and also known as a multi instrumentalist and music producer. He is best known for his punk music and founding the famous punk rock band Big Bag. He is the son of Ringo, who is a famous singer.[1][2][3]

Biography

Kyar Pauk was born in Taungoo, Myanmar. He founded punk rock band Big Bag in the summer of 2001. He is lead guitarist, lead vocalist & primary songwriter of Big Bag. Big Bang members include Ye Zaw Myo, Mung Boih and Phyo Min Naing.

Kyar Pauk was married to Su Le Win Zone Zone on October 29, 2006. They have two daughters, Emerald Htue Lwin and Khinmadi Htue Lwin. They divorced in 2019.

On 9 March 2018, his first solo exhibition had held named Outelligence at Yangon.[4][5]

Political activities

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Kyar Pauk was active in the anti-coup movement through social media. On 3 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.[6]

Albums with Big Bag

• Don't talk about punk
• Punk for all (2001)
• Famous
• Villain (2005)
• Bedtime music (2007)
• The Big Show In The Bag
• AD 3000 (2008)
• Telepunk (2009)
• The Sun Factory
• One Eleven (2011)
• We are Big Bag (2014 August)
• IDGAF (2015 Sep 30)
• Anger Management (2017)
• A Road to Starry Night (Unplugged) [Live] (2019)
• Public Enemy

Achievements

• Most Requested Song – Kyon Yin Pyaw Pay Par [City FM] 2010

• Freshest Song of the Year – Thee Khan [Myanmar Music Award] 2014 [7]

• People’s Choice [Myanmar Music Award] 2014 [8]

• Best Selling Album Villain [2007]

• Best Selling Album IDGAF [2015]

Solo albums

• Cinematicüs (2020 October 23) [9]

Published books

• Knott Funni
• The Strange Old Man[10]
• Kyaung Sar (2019)
• The Odyssey (2024)

References

1. "ဟန်ထူးလွင်ပြောပြတဲ့ "Anger Management"" (in Burmese).
2. "ဇနီးဖြစ်သူနဲ့ တရားဝင်ကွာရှင်းလိုက်ပြီဆိုတဲ့ ..." [I have officially divorced my wife ...] (in Burmese).
3. "ဟန်ထူးလွင်ရဲ့ Bipolarbear T Shirt မိတ်ဆက် ⋆ Popular" (in Burmese).
4. "ခေတ်တွေ ဘယ်လိုပြောင်းပြောင်း အခွေ ကောင်းဖို့ အဓိက"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ ကျားပေါက်" [The key to how well modern times change] (in Burmese).
5. "အဆိုတော်ဟန်ထူးလွင်ရဲ့ ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် တစ်ကိုယ်တော် ပန်းချီပြပွဲ ကျင်းပမည်" [Singer Han Hin Lwin's first solo exhibition] (in Burmese).^[dead link‍]
6. "သက်မွန်မြင့်၊ ဖွေးဖွေး၊ ကော်နီနှင့် ကျားပေါက် အပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 4 April 2021.
7. "Kyar Pauk: 'I like pissing people off'". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
8. "Monsoon Myanmar Music Awards Winners". Yangon Life. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
9. "Cinematicus". Retrieved 7 December 2020.
10. "အဆိုတော် ကျားပေါက်ရဲ့ ၁၈ နှစ်အောက်မဖတ်ရ ကာတွန်းစာအုပ် ထွက်ရှိ" [The Tiger Tiger's Under-18 comic book release] (in Burmese).