J Nyi Nyi

{{Short description|Burmese pop singer and musician (1953–2025)}}

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| birth_place = Wakema Township, Burma (now Myanmar)

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| death_place = Yangon, Myanmar

| genre = Pop, traditional Burmese, contemporary

| occupation = Singer, songwriter, musician, composer

| instrument = Vocals, guitar, keyboard, ukulele

| years_active = 1970s–2025

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J Nyi Nyi ({{Langx|my|ဂျေညီညီ}}; {{IPA|my|dʑè ɲì ɲì|pron}}; 12 December 1953 – 31 March 2025) was a Burmese singer, composer and musician renowned for his significant contributions to Myanmar's pop music scene. Active from the 1970s until his death in 2025, he played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary Burmese pop music by blending traditional sounds with modern influences. He was known as a member of the J Family in the Burmese music industry. Over his decades-long career, he released multiple acclaimed albums and remained a prominent figure in Myanmar's music industry.{{Cite web |title=ဝါရင့်အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီကွယ်လွန် |url=https://burmese.dvb.no/post/697808 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=အလွမ်းကဖီး အပါအဝင် အောင်မြင်တဲ့ တေးသီချင်းများစွာနဲ့ မြန်မာ့ ဂီတလောကမှာ ထင်ရှားတဲ့ ဝါရင့် အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီဟာ မတ် ၃၁ ရက် ဒီကနေ့မနက်ပိုင်းမှာ ကွယ်လွန်သွားခဲ့ပြီလို့ သိရပါတယ်။ဒီအကြောင်းနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီ… |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=31 March 2025 |title=အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ယနေ့မနက်တွင် ကွယ်လွန် |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/67ea37b26a0a444d64799564 |access-date=31 March 2025 |website=NP News}}

Early life and education

J Nyi Nyi was born on 12 December 1953 in Wakema Township, Ayeyarwady Region, Burma (now Myanmar). He developed a passion for music early in life and pursued formal education in the arts and music, which honed his skills as a vocalist and songwriter.{{Cite web |title=အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ကွယ်လွန် |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/news/39541 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Tachileik News Agency |language=my}}{{Cite news |date=31 March 2025 |title=အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ကွယ်လွန် |url=https://bur.mizzima.com/2025/03/31/51532 |work=Mizzima News}}

Career

J Nyi Nyi began his musical journey in the 1970s, quickly establishing himself as a leading figure in Myanmar's pop music scene. His distinctive vocal style and versatility garnered widespread acclaim. In the 1980s, he was instrumental in modernizing Burmese pop music by integrating traditional Burmese sounds with contemporary pop elements, appealing to a broad audience.{{Cite web |title=တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ ရွမ္းရိုးမကြင္းတြင္ သီတင္းကၽြတ္ပြဲေတာ္အျဖစ္ က်င္းပမည့္ ခ်စ္စြမ္းသာ ဇာတ္သဘင္၏ ေနာက္ဆံုးေန႔အား ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့ေရး ရန္ပံုေငြပြဲအျဖစ္ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/2017/09/rkp.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Tachileik News Agency |language=my}}{{Cite web |title=တာခ်ီလိတ္ရဲ႕ ပထမဆံုး Tachileik Countdown Festival အတြက္ ရွမ္းရိုးမကြင္းမွာ လက္မွတ္မ်ားေရာင္းေနပါၿပီ |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/2018/12/tcf.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Tachileik News Agency |language=my}}

Born in Wakema Township, Ayeyarwady Region, J Nyi Nyi was the second of three siblings. He developed a passion for music from a young age and entered the music industry in his twenties. He gained widespread recognition with his debut album, Thuy Ngai, released in 1984. He was only a year younger than his older brother, J Maung Maung, who was also active in the music industry. Throughout his career, he composed and performed songs for projects such as Alum Cafe, Platform Show, and Thuy Ngai, which became well known among audiences.{{Cite web |title=တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ ရွမ္းရိုးမကြင္းတြင္ သီတင္းကၽြတ္ပြဲေတာ္အျဖစ္ က်င္းပမည့္ ခ်စ္စြမ္းသာ ဇာတ္သဘင္၏ ေနာက္ဆံုးေန႔အား ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့ေရး ရန္ပံုေငြပြဲအျဖစ္ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/2017/09/rkp.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Tachileik News Agency |language=my}}{{Cite web |title=တာခ်ီလိတ္ရဲ႕ ပထမဆံုး Tachileik Countdown Festival အတြက္ ရွမ္းရိုးမကြင္းမွာ လက္မွတ္မ်ားေရာင္းေနပါၿပီ |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/2018/12/tcf.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Tachileik News Agency |language=my}}

On 15 May 2012, J Nyi Nyi was involved in a car accident near the RIT campus in Insein Township, Yangon, which led to an eight-year hiatus from the music industry. After recovering from his injuries, he resumed his career, performing on stage, recording music, and participating in street music festivals.{{Cite web |title=အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ကွယ်လွန် |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/news/39541 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Tachileik News Agency |language=my}}{{Cite news |date=31 March 2025 |title=အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ကွယ်လွန် |url=https://bur.mizzima.com/2025/03/31/51532 |work=Mizzima News}}

Personal life and death

J Nyi Nyi married Daw Sandy in 1999, and they had one son, Bono. He was part of a musically prominent family; his older brother, Jay Maung Maung, and younger sister, Jay Nyimalay, were both singers, while his niece, Thiri Jay Maung Maung, also gained recognition in the music industry. He resided in Yangon, Myanmar, until his death.{{Cite web |title=အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ယနေ့မနက်တွင် ကွယ်လွန် |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/67ea37b26a0a444d64799564 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=npnewsmm.com}}{{Cite web |title=ဝါရင့်အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီကွယ်လွန် |url=https://burmese.dvb.no/post/697808 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=အလွမ်းကဖီး အပါအဝင် အောင်မြင်တဲ့ တေးသီချင်းများစွာနဲ့ မြန်မာ့ ဂီတလောကမှာ ထင်ရှားတဲ့ ဝါရင့် အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီဟာ မတ် ၃၁ ရက် ဒီကနေ့မနက်ပိုင်းမှာ ကွယ်လွန်သွားခဲ့ပြီလို့ သိရပါတယ်။ဒီအကြောင်းနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီ… |language=en}}

J Nyi Nyi died in Yangon, Myanmar on 31 March 2025, at the age of 71.{{Cite web |title=အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီ ယနေ့မနက်တွင် ကွယ်လွန် |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/67ea37b26a0a444d64799564 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=npnewsmm.com}}{{Cite web |title=ဝါရင့်အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီကွယ်လွန် |url=https://burmese.dvb.no/post/697808 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=အလွမ်းကဖီး အပါအဝင် အောင်မြင်တဲ့ တေးသီချင်းများစွာနဲ့ မြန်မာ့ ဂီတလောကမှာ ထင်ရှားတဲ့ ဝါရင့် အဆိုတော် ဂျေညီညီဟာ မတ် ၃၁ ရက် ဒီကနေ့မနက်ပိုင်းမှာ ကွယ်လွန်သွားခဲ့ပြီလို့ သိရပါတယ်။ဒီအကြောင်းနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီ… |language=en}}