Benjamin Sum

Benjamin Sum (Burmese: ဘင်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်း; born 27 November 2000) is a Burmese singer of ethnic Chin descent.[1] He rose to prominence following his finish as the runner-up on the fourth season of Myanmar Idol.[2][3][4]

Benjamin Sum
ဘင်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်း
Benjamin Sum in 2020
Background information
Birth nameBenjamin Sum
Born (2000-11-27) 27 November 2000
Kalay, Sagaing Region, Myanmar
GenresPop, pop rock
Occupation(s)Singer
InstrumentsVocals • guitar
Years active2019–present

Early life and education

Benjamin Sum was born on 27 November 2000 in Kalay, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. His father was a missionary and died when he was four years old. His younger sister died at age four when he was eight years old, at the same time his mother diagnosed with cancer stage three when he was in middle school. His life story shocked the Myanmar audience as he stepped into Myanmar Idol 2019 as a contestant. He is currently studying Computer Science at University of Computer Studies, Kalay.[5]

Career
Benjamin Sum performing in a concert

Ben started performing in public in 2018. He wanted to pursue a career in music, and so he auditioned for the fourth season of Myanmar Idol. Finally, he was selected in Top 11 finalists.

He made the grand final on the weekend of 28 December 2019, alongside Esther Dawt Chin Sung and Aye Mya Phyu. After Esther was declared the winner, he finished as the runner-up with over 50% of the public vote.[6] During his homecoming to Kalay a huge crowd of thousands fans gathered.[7]

After competing Myanmar Idol, he began shooting for commercial advertisements, stage performances, and preparing to record his first solo album.[8]

On 18 May 2020, he released a single song called "Pyan Twae Mae Yat" MV on his Facebook page which earned 1 M views within 24 hours and then 2 M views in 5 days.[9]Also it has long been number one on Joox's top 100 chart.[10][11]

Competition songs
  • Week 1: He sang Mother how are you in Burmese version and he won the hearts of Myanmar audiences.[12]
  • Week 2: He sang Ma Tar Nae (မတားနဲ့) which makes him the most popular contestant[13]
  • Week 3: He chose the song Adipati Lanma Ka Chay Yar Myar (အဓိပတိလမ်းမကခြေရာများ), Casablanca in Burmese version, for the week of College Student life.
  • Week 4: He chose the song Min Ma Shi Tae Nya Tway (မင်းမရှိတဲ့နေ့တွေ ညတွေ) in country theme.
  • Week 5: He sang Sate Pyay Thachin (စိတ်ဖြေသီချင်း) the week to the remembrance of the iconic singer Soe Lwin Lwin.
  • Week 6: He sang December Na Nat Khin (ဒီဇင်ဘာနံနက်ခင်း) for winter theme and he became a top 5 finalist.
  • Week 7: He sang Say (ဆေး) for popular song week and is chosen as one of the top 4 finalists.

Discography

Singles
  • The Day We Meet Again (ပြန်တွေ့မယ့်ရက်) (2020).[14]
  • Girl from the House Next Door (ဟိုဖက်အိမ်ကကောင်မလေး) (2020)[15]

Award
  • Joox Top 10 Popular Song Award for 2020

References
  1. "နေမကောင်းဖြစ်နေတဲ့ မိခင်ကို ဆေးကုဖို့ အလုပ်တွေ ပိုကြိုးစားမယ့် ဘန်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 24 January 2020.
  2. "Myannar Idol Season 4 Winner ဆု ချင်းတိုင်းရင်းသူ Esther က ဆွတ်ခူး" [Esther wins the Myannar Idol Season 4 Winner award]. The Myanmar Times. 29 December 2019.
  3. "Myanmar Idol Season 4 ရဲ့ Top 11 ပြိုင်ပွဲဝင်အချို့ရဲ့ စကားသံများ" [Voice of Some of the Top 11 contestants of Myanmar Idol Season 4]. The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 29 October 2019.
  4. "ဘန်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်း နဲ့ အမာခံ ပရိသတ်များ တွေ့ဆုံပွဲ Fan Meeting". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 24 December 2019.
  5. Idol, Myanmar. "Myanmar Idol Contestant Benjamin Sum". Myanmar Idol.
  6. အက်စတာ၊ အေးမြဖြူနဲ့ ဘင်ဂျမင်-မြန်မာအိုင်ဒေါ Winner ဘယ်သူဖြစ်မလဲ [Esther and Benjamin, Myanmar Idol Season 4 Winner Who?]. Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 27 December 2019.
  7. လူပေါင်းထောင်ပေါင်း များစွာ ကြိတ်ကြိတ်တိုး ကြိုဆိုခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ Myanmar Idol ပြိုင်ပွဲဝင် ဘင်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်းရဲ့ ပုံရိပ်များ – Shwe Yaung Lan [Myanmar Idol contestant Benjamin Sun's coming home, where a huge crowd of thousands fans gathered.]. Shwe Yaung Lan (in Burmese). 6 January 2020.
  8. "လူကြီးလူငယ်အကုန် အားပေး ကြတဲ့အတွက် အံ့သြဝမ်းသာရတယ်……… ဘန်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်း". 8days Journal (in Burmese). 4 March 2020.
  9. "ဘင်ဂျမင်ဆုမ်းရဲ့ သီချင်းအသစ်ကို ချီးကျူးလိုက်တဲ့ ဖြူဖြူကျော်သိန်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 18 May 2020.
  10. "ပြန်တွေ့မယ်ရက်သီချင်းJooxမှာTop 1ဝင်". Celeconnection.
  11. ""ျပန္ေတြ႕မယ့္ရက္" သီခ်င္းေလးနဲ႕ ပတၱျမား FM ရဲ႕ Song of the Month ဆုကိုရရွိထားတဲ့ ဘင္ဂ်မင္". Cele Gabar. 7 July 2020.
  12. Han, You Phyu (29 October 2019). "Myanmar Idol top 11". The Irrawaddy.
  13. "Rock week competition on Myanmar idol". Eleven Media Group. 9 November 2019.
  14. ""Pyan Twae Mae Yat" on Joox". Joox.
  15. ""ဟိုဖက်အိမ်ကကောင်းမလေး'" Jooxတွင်နားဆင်ရန်". Joox.
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