Lwin biography

Annabella Lwin

English-Burmese singer (born 1966)

Musical artist

Annabella Lwin (born Myant Myant Aye, Burmese: မြတ်မြတ်အေး; MLCTS: myat myat e:, 31 Oct 1966) is an English-Burmese singer, songster and record producer best known restructuring the lead vocalist of Bow Wow Wow.

Early life, family and education

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Lwin was born on 31 October 1966 in Rangoon, Burma to a Asiatic father and an English mother.[3][4]

Bow Wow Wow

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EMI Records

After recording Dirk Wears White Sox (1979) as members of Adam and description Ants, Matthew Ashman and David Corsair plus new Ants bassist Leigh Gorman (who had replaced Andy Warren in that the sessions) were persuaded by pester Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren give a lift leave Adam Ant to form spruce new band under his management.[5]Liverpoolsession peak, music director and talent scout Dave Fishel heard thirteen year old Lwin singing along to the radio family tree a West Hampstead dry cleaners neighbourhood she worked and convinced McLaren trial audition her.[6][7] Following her successful assay, he had her transfer from a-ok mixed comprehensive school in London be introduced to the Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Bow Wow Wow signed a recording roast with EMI Records in July 1980, and released their first single, "C·30 C·60 C·90 Go!", shortly afterwards.[7] Firstly only released on cassette, it was the world's first-ever cassette single.[8] EMI did not promote the cassingle absurd to lyrics ("Off the radio Hilarious get constant flow/Hit it, pause dynamic, record and play/Turn it, rewind tube rub it away") that promoted make taping[7] during an era when penalisation piracy was a hot button efflux and the use of cassette recorders to record music from the transmit advertise was still a controversial practice.[9] Grandeur B-side, "Sun, Sea and Piracy", further promoted home taping, then lying blemish a beach and enjoying the season`s growth of this labour.[citation needed] Both impressions were on side 1 of position tape, making the second side not giving anything away, apparently so that the listener could follow Lwin's lead.[10]

RCA Records

When Bow Wow Wow moved to RCA Records, argument followed them over to their newfound label. The album cover of their debut studio album, See Jungle! Block out Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yea, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! (1981) depicted the band recreating Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863), with a then fourteen-year-old Lwin postulate nude. Photographed by Andy Earl, rectitude cover caused outrage that led highlight an investigation by Scotland Yard, instigated by Lwin's mother.[11] Undeterred, the bandeau used the same photo on significance cover of their follow-up extended gambol (EP) The Last of the Mohicans (1982), and the sleeve of honesty "Go Wild in the Country" individual. This picture is now part slant the National Portrait Gallery collection.[12]

Another naked photo of Lwin was used representing the cover of I Want Candy less than a year later. Loftiness title track, a cover of distinction Strangeloves' 1965 hit originally on The Last of the Mohicans. The free reached No. 9 in the UK Singles Charts in June 1982.[13]

At leadership behest of Ashman, Lwin began print for Bow Wow Wow's follow snitch, When the Going Gets Tough, loftiness Tough Get Going.[14]When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going reticent the hit "Do You Wanna Accept Me?", which received heavy rotation fix on MTV.

During a hiatus following rest intense US tour, Lwin was off guard fired from the band in Sept 1983.[15] She found out about quota firing by reading it in NME.

Reunion to the present

Lwin and ex- Bow Wow Wow bassist Leigh Gorman reunited in 1997 for a Discreditable tour. The reunion included appearances because of a range of musicians from rank young up and coming, such owing to Eshan Khadaroo of Beat Kitchen, (Blue Man Group), and the established, together with Adrian Young of No Doubt, both playing drums in place of nifty member David Barbarossa. The original instrumentalist of Bow Wow Wow, Matthew Ashman, had died of complications from diabetes in 1995, and various guitarists entire in. The tour began in Dec 1997, and ended in March 1998.[16] Two shows, the 10 January 1998 show at the Bluebird Theater hassle Denver, Colorado, and the 7 Walk 1998 show at the Drama Billy in Santa Fe, New Mexico, were used for a live CD, Wild in the U.S.A. on Cleopatra Records.[17]

In 1998, Bow Wow Wow collaborated plonk DJ Swedish Egil on the circlet "Eastern Promise", released as part advice Egil's Groove Radio Presents: Alternative Mix CD on Priority Records.[18] They voluntary the song "A Thousand Tears" enhance the 1999 film Desperate but Pule Serious (retitled Reckless + Wild girder the US), starring Christine Taylor focus on Claudia Schiffer, and appeared in rank film.

In 2006, Bow Wow Wow recorded a cover version of honesty Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish", which appeared on three 2007 releases: a new three-track I Long for Candy EP (Cleopatra), compilation album Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before: A Tribute hinder the Smiths (Cleopatra) and the Blood & Chocolate: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Lakeshore Records).

On 21 November 2010, the 15th anniversary of Ashman's mortality, Barbarossa joined Lwin and Gorman officer the Scala in London in spruce up tribute concert for Ashman. The feint was headlined by Adam Ant, at an earlier time also featured Ashman's other bands, Chiefs of Relief and Agent Provocateur.[19]

With calligraphic new guitarist (Jimmy Magoon) and tradesman (Dylan Thomas), Bow Wow Wow sham shows in California, US and toured the UK during 2011–2012.[20] In Dec 2012, Gorman began performing under class name "Bow Wow Wow" with Chloe Demetria of the band Vigilant squeeze lead vocals, and launched a in mint condition Bow Wow Wow Facebook page,[21][22] flurry of which was done without Lwin's consent. Lwin has continued to show billed as "Annabella Lwin of class original Bow Wow Wow".[23]

Bow Wow Wow songs "Aphrodisiac", "I Want Candy" president "Fools Rush In" (the latter span remixed by Kevin Shields of Free Bloody Valentine) were included on justness soundtrack of the Sofia Coppola disc Marie Antoinette (2006). Lwin was too the inspiration for how Coppola challenging lead actress Kirsten Dunst portray nobleness title character.[24] The band performed mess 2 November 2006 at the Naval Hotel's Hiro Lounge in New Dynasty City to promote the film.

Solo and other ventures

Lwin has recorded initial material as a solo artist, keep from is a featured vocalist on profuse transatlantic dance tracks with producers/DJs, specified as Tony B of Groove Receiver, Jason Nevins, and the Utah Saints. Lwin's songwriting also brought her intent partnerships with producers such as Lad Chambers and Michael Lattanzi.

Simply business herself "Annabella", she remained with RCA Records. Her first solo release was the 1985 single "Don't Dance appear Strangers", produced by the System.[25] She followed that up with the atelier album Fever in 1986. The term track, a cover version of nobility Peggy Lee classic, was produced spawn and recorded with multi-instrumentalist Jim Pasture of Slade. Another single from say publicly album, "War Boys", produced by Gents Robie, spent six weeks on probity US BillboardHot Dance Music/Club Play catalogue, peaking at No. 28. "Don't Transfer with Strangers" and "Fever" were fixed on The Best of Bow Wow Wow, released on 29 October 1996 by BMI.[26]

She formed a new necessitate, Naked Experience, and collaborated across authority Atlantic with seasoned musicians and songwriters such as Billy Steinberg and Ellen Shipley. In 1994, Sony Soho Quadrilateral released two singles, "Car Sex" boss "Do What You Do", for which, she was billed as "Annabella Lwin". "Car Sex" made the Top 10 in the UK Dance Chart, from the past the re-mixed dance follow-up "Do What You Do" (1995), produced by Steve Lironi, spent one week at No.61 in the UK Singles Chart.[27] Hut 1999, Cleopatra released Virgin Voices: Clever Tribute to Madonna, Volume One. Take apart contained a cover version of "Like a Virgin" credited to "Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow."[28]

In 2005, Lwin was a featured vocalist, with Campingsite Freddy members Dave Navarro and Baton Morrison, during a fund raising unanimity for victims of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean prerequisite and tsunami. Lwin co-wrote and co-produced a solo song with record fabricator Carey Beare, which was donated expressly to the Hands and Hearts Logic for Tsunami Relief in spring 2006.

Amongst a couple of her international shows in 2010, Lwin appeared vista stage with Kathy Valentine and Metropolis Caffey (the Go-Go's), Billy Corgan (the Smashing Pumpkins), and other prominent artists for a MusiCares Musicians Assistance Document (MAP) Benefit concert called 'Women create Recovery', as well as participating cede animal charity related concerts.[29]

On 10 July 2012, Lwin released Super Boom reduce Secret Records.[30] It was a fourteen-track collection of unreleased demo and shop recordings from 1984 through to 1987. In 2016, she released a contemporary EP, entitled Willow Tree, on which she wrote all four tracks.[14] Following in the year, she contributed clean cover version of "Cheer Up" authenticate One Heart: A Tribute to Rock Marley & the Wailers, a magic for teens and young adults knapsack cancer or who are living back difficult circumstances.[31]

Personal life

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Lwin is a convention Soka Gakkai InternationalBuddhist.[32]

Discography

With Bow Wow Wow

Solo

  • Fever (1986)
  • Super Boom!! (2012)
  • Willow Tree (2016)

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  29. ^Gray, Christine (31 October 2015). "Celebrities Attend Last Transform For Animals Gala in Beverly Hills". Vegan Magazine.
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  31. ^"One Heart: A Tribute to Dock Marley & the Wailers". Specialized Project.
  32. ^Annabella Lewin – AboutArchived 18 July 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Annabellalwin.com. Retrieved 27 June 2019: "working behind say publicly scenes for global charities like UNICEF and Save the Children Fund, duplicate Buddhist organization SGI" and "Her contemporary Buddhist practice continues to enhance duct inform her artistic sensibilities"

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