{"id":3301,"date":"2024-01-16T04:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2024-01-16T04:12:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:12:28","slug":"myanmars-legendary-singer-u-maung-maung-gyi-passed-away-at-the-age-of-93-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3301","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar&#8217;s legendary singer U Maung Maung Gyi passed away at the age of 93 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>16 January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myanmar&#8217;s legendary singer U Maung Maung Gyi passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, January 15, in Yangon Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_10-01-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_10-01-02.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_10-01-02-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_10-01-02-768x683.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_10-01-02-14x12.jpg 14w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The young name of the legendary singer is Maung Maung. He was born on March 18, 1931, in Yangon to his father U Kin Sein, and mother Daw Yin Nyunt. He entered the music industry in 1947 at the age of 16 years. Myanmar&#8217;s legendary singer U Maung Maung Gyi, became the joint secretary of the Myanmar Music Council in 1964. In 1985, Chairman of the Music Council of Lanmadaw Township, Secretary of the Myanmar Musicians Organization in 1988, and from 2005 until his death, served as the patron of the Myanmar Music Association. He was awarded many social excellence medals awarded by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_09-58-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_09-58-05.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_09-58-05-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-16_09-58-05-10x12.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When legendary singer U Maung Maung Gyi died, his wife Daw Win Win Myint, Son U Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Daughter Kaythi Naing, and two grandchildren remained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 January 2024 Myanmar&#8217;s legendary singer U Maung Maung Gyi passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}