ALFA is a Myanmar Pop boy band formed by JBJ entertainment in 2019. The group has been strongly influenced by the Korean wave and popularity of K-pop following myanmar.[1] ALFA has built up a strong local following in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capgroup[1][2] The Group is originally a seven-piece group, Kira & Bo Bo left the group in october 31, 2021.
ALFA | |
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| Origin | Myanmar |
| Genres | Burmese pop |
| Years active | 2019–present |
| Labels | JBJ Entertainment |
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| Website | ALFA on Facebook |
The group debuted on 12 December 2019 with the single, "One N Only."[3][4] The group's members were selected by an entertainment company, JBJ Entertainment, which held open auditions the previous year in Yangon.[5] Two members, Jay and Adam were contestants in Galaxy Star, a singing competition organized by JBJ in 2017.[3] ALFA's fan base is dubbed the ALFAVERSE.[6]
Members
edit- Jay (ဇေလင်းထိုက်)
- Adam (ဟိန်းဦးလွင်)
- T Tant (တည်တံ့အောင်)
- Kinice (ဟိန်းမင်းထိုက်)
- Min Khant (မင်းခန့်ကျော်)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Myanmar has been obsessed with Korean culture for two decades and now, the wave is hitting". CNA. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ "မြန်မာမိန်းကလေးပရိသတ်တွေသဲသဲလှုပ်အားပေးခြင်းကိုခံနေရတဲ့ ALFA အကအဖွဲ့သစ်". myanmaplatform news (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ a b "Myanmar boy band ALPHA sends youths' hearts aflutter". The Myanmar Times. 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ ""မိန်းကလေးပရိသတ်တွေရဲ့ သည်းသည်းလှုပ်အားပေးဝန်းရံခြင်းကိုရရှိဦးမယ့် မြန်မာယောက်ျားလေးအဆိုတော်အဖွဲ့အသစ် ALFA"". Lotaya (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ "K-pop style boy band from Myanmar set to make dream debut". Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS). 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ "Alfaverse တို့ရဲ့ အချစ်တော် ALFA Boy Band အဖွဲ့". Myanmar Celebrity (in Burmese). Retrieved 2021-01-20.