Y Wine
{{Short description|Burmese rock singer and lead vocalist of Iron Cross}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Y Wine}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| background = person
| name = Y Wine
| image = Y Wine.jpg
| caption = Y Wine in 2013
| native_name = {{nobold|ဝိုင်ဝိုင်း}}
| native_name_lang = my
| birth_place = Myitkyina, Myanmar
| origin = Myitkyina
| genre = Mandarin pop music, pop music, asian pop, pop rock
| occupation = Singer, musician, artist
| instrument = Singing, guitar, saung
| years_active = 1998–present
| label = Iron Cross Entertainment, LEGACY MUSIC NETWORK, and The Sun Music
| current_member_of = Iron Cross (band)
}}
Y Wine ({{Langx|my|ဝိုင်ဝိုင်း}}; {{IPA|my|waɪɴ waɪɴ|pron}}) is a Burmese rock singer and the lead vocalist of the Myanmar rock band Iron Cross.{{Cite web |date=1 December 2024 |title="Iron Cross အဖွဲ့ကို ပြည်ပြေးတွေ ဘာကြောင့် ရှုတ်ချနေကြသလဲ" ("Why Are Refugees Condemning the Iron Cross?") |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/674c004f4974cb5682142277 |website=NP News |language=my}}{{Cite news |last=Thu Thu Thar |title=ဖြေသိမ့်လိုက် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2015/08/20/79997.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my}} Known for his role in popularizing rock music in Myanmar, Y Wine has been active in the music industry for over two decades.{{Cite news |last=Htet Oo Wai |title=MPT မဏ္ဍပ်များတွင် ဆင်နွှဲရန် Facebook မှ ကံထူးရှင် ၂၀၀ ရွေးချယ် (200 winners selected by Facebook to celebrate at MPT pavilions) |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2016/04/05/111947.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my}}{{Cite news |last=Aye Chan Myay |date=18 August 2013 |title=လူလတ်ပိုင်းတွေ မြူးတဲ့ Air Supply ည (Air Supply night where the middle-aged people are having fun) |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2013/08/18/46547.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my}} His work often combines traditional Burmese music with modern rock elements, creating a distinctive musical style.{{Cite news |date=5 January 2019 |title=(၆၇) နှစ်မြောက် ကယားပြည်နယ်နေ့ပွဲတော်တွင် IRON CROSS အဖွဲ့ အခမဲ့ဖျော်ဖြေမည် (67th) Kayah State Day Festival, IRON CROSS band will perform for free) |url=https://www.tachileik.net/mm/2019/01/ic.html |work=Tachileik News Agency |language=my}}{{Cite news |last=Yu Phyu Han |date=28 April 2020 |title=အခြေအနေတွေ တည်ငြိမ်သွားရင် IC နှစ် ၃၀ ပြည့်ပွဲမှာ ပြန်တွေ့ကြဖို့ အဖွဲ့သားများ ပြော |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2020/04/28/221596.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |last=Aye Chan Myay |date=24 July 2014 |title=ဇူလိုင် မိုးရေစက်များနဲ့ IC ပွဲ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2014/07/21/62125.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}
Early life and education
Y Wine was born and raised in Myitkyina, Myanmar.{{Cite news |last=Kyaw Kha |date=15 January 2015 |title=အဆိုတော် လေးဖြူက NLD ပညာရေးရန်ပုံငွေပွဲမှာ သီဆိုဖြစ်တဲ့ အကြောင်း မသီဆိုခင် အရင်ရှင်းပြ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2015/01/15/69889.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |last=Myat Thu Aung |date=10 April 2014 |title=သင်္ကြန်မှာ အနုပညာရှင်တွေနဲ့ တီးဝိုင်းတွေ ဘယ်မှာရှိမလဲ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2014/04/10/57438.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite web |last=Wei Yan Aung |date=27 September 2016 |title=Ten Things to Do in Rangoon This Week |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/ten-things-to-do-in-rangoon-this-week-10.html |website=The Irrawaddy}} He attended Yadanabon University in Mandalay, majoring in English. During his university years, he developed an interest in music and former connections with other aspiring musicians, including Lay Phyu.{{Cite web |last=Yuko Maskay |date=8 July 2015 |title=The Sounds of Iron Cross |url=https://www.myanmore.com/2015/07/the-sounds-of-iron-cross/?amp=1 |website=MYANMORE}} These early interactions played a role in his decision to pursue a career in music.{{Cite news |date=4 July 2023 |title=လူ(၈)ယောက်စာ စားပွဲတစ်ဝိုင်းလျှင် ငွေကျပ်(၂၅)သိန်းနှုန်းဖြင့် ကျင်းပရန် စီစဥ်ထားသည့် အဆိုတော်မျိုးကြီး နှင့် ဝိုင်ဝိုင်းတို့၏ ရှိုးပွဲရက် ရွှေ့ဆိုင်း |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/64a4051eb7327f032568db78 |work=NP News}}
Music career
Y Wine began his career in 1998, as the lead vocalist of Burmese rock band Iron Cross, a band recognized for blending rock music with traditional Burmese influences. The group released several albums and gained popularity in the Myanmar music scene.{{Cite news |date=4 July 2023 |title=အဆိုတော်မျိုးကြီးနှင့် ဝိုင်ဝိုင်းတို့ ဖျော်ဖြေမည့် လူရှစ်ဦးလျှင် ကျပ် ၂၅ သိန်းတန် ရှိုးပွဲ ရွှေ့ဆိုင်း |url=https://news-eleven.com/article/250420 |work=Eleven Media Group}}
In addition to his work with Iron Cross, Y Wine pursued a solo career, releasing albums that feature a mix of rock ballads and upbeat tracks. His solo projects were released under local record labels such as [https://mn2s.com/booking-agency/live-roster/iron-cross/ Iron Cross Entertainment], [https://www.legacy.com.mm/ The Legacy Music Network] and [https://myanmaryellowpages.biz/company_detail/34857/546 The Sun Music].{{Cite news |last=De Hlaing Win |date=1 January 2020 |title=နှစ်သစ်ကူးပွဲမှာ လူထုရှေ့ပြန်ပေါ်လာသည့် မန္တလေးတိုင်း ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2020/01/01/211900.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |date=27 December 2011 |title=ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် နှင့် IC အဖွဲ့တွေ့ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2011/12/27/4144.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |last=Nadi Htike |date=10 April 2013 |title=ဒီသင်္ကြန် ဘယ်သူတွေ ဘယ်မှာရှိကြမ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2013/04/10/37377.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |last=Nadi Htike |date=9 August 2013 |title=Air Supply နဲ့ IC တပိုင်းစီ ဖျော်ဖြေပြီး အလှူလုပ်ကြမယ် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2013/08/09/46052.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |date=3 June 2013 |title=တေးရေး ကေအေတီ ဈာပနအခမ်းအနား ကျင်းပ ပြီးစီး |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2013/06/03/41263.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |last=Nadi Htike |date=24 July 2013 |title=ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး အနုပညာပွဲကြီး လာပြီ (The peace art festival has arrived) |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2013/07/24/44914.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my}}
Discography
Y Wine has been part of both group and solo album projects.{{Cite news |last=Yu Phyu Han |title=မိုးတွင်းမှာ သီချင်းတွေ သွင်းဖြစ်နေတဲ့ Iron Cross အဖွဲ့ (Iron Cross group recording music in the rain) |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2018/09/03/168592.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my}} Releases include the following albums:
- Nay Sae Zin (1998) – Debut album with Iron Cross{{Cite web |date=December 2008 |title=From Rock to Romance |url=https://www2.irrawaddy.com/print_article.php?art_id=14749 |website=The Irrawaddy}}
- La Min Nat Pin Lae (2001) – Collaboration with Iron Cross{{Cite web |last=Nadi Htike |date=13 August 2013 |title=Australian Rockers Air Supply to Play Rangoon Charity Gig |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/australian-rockers-air-supply-to-play-rangoon-charity-gig.html |website=The Irrawaddy}}
- Kyoe Mat Sung (2003) – Solo album{{Cite web |last=Mike Spain |date=13 August 2012 |title='Iron Cross' at University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Mike Spain |url=https://dctheaterarts.org/2012/08/13/iron-cross-at-university-of-marylands-clarice-smith-performing-arts-center-by-mike-spain/ |website=DC Theater Arts}}
- A Chit Nyat (2004) – Solo album
- Ta Min Lae Pyan (2006) – Solo album
- Htar Wa Ra (2007) – Solo album
- Iron Cross 20th Anniversary (2009) – Commemorative group album.
- A Tone A Lae (2011) – Solo album
- Kha Yee Shay (2018) – Solo album, released alongside "Kyoe Mat Sung,"