G Fatt

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G Fatt
Background information
Birth nameMyat Thu
Born (1992-12-31) 31 December 1992 (age 31)
Yangon, Myanmar
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, rapper, actor
Instrument(s)Vocal . Piano . Guitar
Years active2007–present

G Fatt (Burmese: ဂျီဖက်, born Myat Thu; 31 December 1992) is a Burmese singer, songwriter, rapper and actor.[1] He is considered one of the most commercially successful Burmese singers.[2] G Fatt released his debut album Gin on 21 February 2016 which became the best-selling album of the year.[3]

Early life and education[edit]

G Fatt was born on 31 December 1992 in Yangon, Myanmar to parent Nyo Oo and his wife Myint Myint Wai. He is the youngest son of two siblings, having an elder sister. He attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Thingangyun. He is currently studying in Myanmar major at the Dagon University.[4]

Music career[edit]

G Fatt is performing in a concert

G Fatt started out on his music career in the underground outfit and released underground hip-hop songs since before he got his big break. He first participated in group album "Amone Kabar Mha Nae Swel Myar" (The dates from hate world). He gained recognition in music industry with his songs "8 Day, 8 Month, 8 Hour" and "Pyi Pa Thoe Pay Sar" (A letter to my love abroad). The songs became widely popular and major hits in Myanmar since the day he released it on online. Since then, he gained the first recognition from his fans and participated in many group albums, stage performances, and many concerts at various locations throughout Myanmar.[5][6]

G Fatt is performing in a concert

In 2016, G Fatt started working with Frenzo Production, a major music production company in Myanmar and owned by Sai Sai Kham Leng. Since them, he started entertaining in Sai Sai Kham Leng's birthday show every year. G Fatt started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute a solo album. He launched his debut solo album "Gin" on 21 February 2016 which turned out to be a success creating him a place to stand in Myanmar music industry. His second solo album "120/B" was released on 2 March 2018.[7][8]

On 1 April 2019, Frenzo released an animation music video for "Nga Yee Zar Ka Po Mite Tal" (My girlfriend is better than yours) collaborating with Frenzo artists G Fatt, Sai Sai Kham Leng, Nay Win, Phyo Lay, Bunny Phyoe, Ki Ki Kyaw Zaw and John, which is one of the tracks in Sai Sai Kham Leng's album "Sai Sai is Sai Sai", was released on 1 April 2018.[9] The music video became widely popular since the day released it on Sai Sai Kham Leng's official Facebook page and YouTube channel, and was praised for the animation quality and music video created by Pencell Studio.[10] That music video was earned 1 M views within 24 hours and then 2 M views in 7 days.[11]

One Man Shows[edit]

G Fatt is performing in his first one-man show concert

On 11 November 2018, G Fatt performed his first one-man show concert in the open area of Myaw Sin Island, Kandawgyi. Even with drizzling rain at the start of the concert, a huge crowd of loyal fans were celebrate enjoy the show in the rain.[2][12]

On 13 January 2021, he hosted his third one-man show named Illusion Paradise via online and TV.[13][14]

Acting career[edit]

G Fatt made his acting debut in the Burmese hip hop life film Ko Tha Mine Ko Yay Kya Thu Myar 2, where he played the main role with local hip hop artists include Yone Lay, Ya Tha, Kyat Pha, J Fire, Pyone Mya Thwe, Su Nandar Aung and others. The film is directed by Joe and which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 12 January 2018.[15]

Political activities[edit]

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, G Fatt was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, he has taken part in protests since February. He joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[16][17]

On 3 April 2021, warrants for his arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, he was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.[18]

G Fatt faced a public criticism after his appearance at the military-held Thingyan festival in Naypyidaw on April 13, 2023.[19]

Filmography[edit]

Film (Cinema)[edit]

  • Ko Tha Mine Ko Yay Kya Thu Myar 2 (ကိုယ့်သမိုင်းကိုယ်ရေးကြသူများ ၂) (2018)

Discography[edit]

Solo albums[edit]

  • Gin (ဂျင်) (2016)
  • 120/B (2018)

Awards[edit]

  • The Most Requested Song Award 2017, with Gin album, awarded by City FM

Other awards[edit]

1st Major M Music Awards (2018)

Year Recipient Award Result
2018 120/B Best Hip Hop Album Won
Album of the Year Nominated
G Fatt Artist of the Year Nominated

References[edit]

  1. ^ "တေးသံရှင် G Fatt နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 4 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b Lay Myint, Khin (14 November 2018). "G Fatt and His First One Man Show Concert". Yangon Life.
  3. ^ "အချစ်မရှိရင် ဘယ်မိန်းမမှ ချစ်လို့မရတော့ဘူးလို့ ဆိုတဲ့ G Fatt". Mizzima (in Burmese). 18 May 2017.
  4. ^ "အဆိုတော် G-Fatt ၏ ၂၃ နှစ်ပြည့် မွေးနေ့ပွဲကို ပရိသတ်များ နှင့် အတူ ကျင်းပ". Mizzima (in Burmese). 31 December 2015.
  5. ^ Lu, Daung (1 December 2018). "ယောက်ျားလေးလည်းအချော့ကြိုက်ပါတယ်လို့ ပြောလာတဲ့ G-Fatt". Mizzima (in Burmese).
  6. ^ Swe Thet, Khin (1 December 2018). "အချစ်ရေးနဲ့ ပတ်သက်လို့ စိတ်ပူစေခဲ့တဲ့အပေါ် ပရိသတ်ကို G Fatt တောင်းပန်". 7Day News (in Burmese).
  7. ^ Yu Phyu Han (28 February 2018). "ငယ်ဘဝကို ပြန်လည်တမ်းတတဲ့ အနေနဲ့ ပေးထားတဲ့ G Fatt ရဲ့ ဒုတိယအခွေ "120/B"". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  8. ^ Khin Swe Thet (1 March 2018). "ဒုတိယမြောက်အခွေမှာ Troller တွေကို စနောက်ထားတဲ့ G-Fatt". 7Day News (in Burmese).
  9. ^ "နေရာတိုင်းမှာလို" မင်းစော်ထက် ငါ့စော်က ပိုမိုက်တယ် " ဆိုတဲ့ သီချင်းသံတွေကြားနေရတာကြောင့် ပီတိဖြစ်နေကြတယ်". Online Lawka (in Burmese). 16 April 2019.
  10. ^ Han, Yu Phyu (7 April 2019). "Pencell Studio မှ Art Director နိုဘယ်အောင်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  11. ^ "JOOX မှာ နံပါတ်တစ်နေရာကနေ ရပ်တည်ခဲ့တဲ့ "ငါ့ရည်းစားကပိုမိုက်တယ်"". Auntymay (in Burmese). 19 April 2019.
  12. ^ Khin Swe Thet (3 November 2018). "G Fatt ရဲ့ပထမဆုံးတစ်ကိုယ်တော်ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ". 7Day News (in Burmese).
  13. ^ "တတိယမြောက် One Man Show "Illusion Paradise" ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲကို အွန်လိုင်းနှင့်ရုပ်သံလိုင်းမှ ကျင်းပမည့် G Fatt". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 9 January 2021.
  14. ^ "G Fatt ရဲ့ တကိုယ်တော်ရှိုးကို ကရင်နှစ်သစ်ကူးနေ့တွင် ပြုလုပ်မည်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 12 January 2021.
  15. ^ "G Fatt နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 2 January 2018.
  16. ^ "တရားမျှတမှု We Want Justice ကန်ပိန်းတွင် အနုပညာရှင်များပါဝင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
  17. ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
  18. ^ "သက်မွန်မြင့်၊ ဖွေးဖွေး၊ ကော်နီနှင့် ကျားပေါက် အပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 4 April 2021.
  19. ^ "Spring Revolution Daily News for 15 April 2023". Archived from the original on 9 May 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.

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