Sein Stine (Burmese: စိန်စတင်း, born Tin Aung, 9 January 1949 – 3 November 2019) was a Burmese Hsaing waing musician of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century. He was one of the three hsaing musicians who have been awarded the title of Alinkar Kyawswa.[1]

Alinkar Kyawswa
Sein Stine
Born
Tin Aung

(1949-01-09)9 January 1949
Died3 November 2019(2019-11-03) (aged 70)
Occupationmusician
Parent(s)Mahn Delone, Naw Aye Chan
AwardsAlinkar Kyawswa (2020)

Life edit

Sein Stine was born to Mahn Delone and Naw Aye Chan at Danubyu Township, Ayeyarwady Region in 1949.[2]

He started performing hsaing at the commemoration ceremony of YMB Saya Tin at the age 16. Thereafter, he became popular until his death in 2019.[2]

Musical career edit

He was posthumously awarded the title of Alinkar Kyawswa by the government of Myanmar on 4 January 2020, honoring his contributions to the field of hsaing industry.[1][3] On 4 January 2021, Sein Stine's son Sein Min Naing accepted the title on his behalf, at the ceremony conferring honorary titles by the President Win Myint.[4][5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "ဇန်နဝါရီ ၅ ရက်မနက်ခင်းထိပ်တန်းသတင်းများ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 5 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b "ရိုးရာဆိုင်း အနုပညာနဲ့ ဆိုင်းမျိုးဆက် မပြတ်အောင် ထိန်းသိမ်းနေတဲ့ ရွှေအလင်္ကာ စိန်မင်းနိုင်". ဧရာဝတီ. 11 March 2019.
  3. ^ "ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်ဘွဲ့များ၊ ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်တံဆိပ်များ ချီးမြှင့်အပ်နှင်း | Ministry Of Information". www.moi.gov.mm.
  4. ^ "President gives honorary titles for 2020 | Ministry Of Information". www.moi.gov.mm.
  5. ^ "၂၀၂၀ ပြည့်နှစ်တွင် ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်ဘွဲ့ ရရှိသူများအား ဘွဲ့ပေးအပ်ချီးမြှင့်သည့် အခမ်းအနား သမ္မတအိမ်တော်တွင် ပြုလုပ်". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese).